in the 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 all 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 egyptians are once again heading to the polls in a third round of parliamentary elections that's widely expected that islamic groups will come out on top and take over the current military rulers but the run up to this vote has seen clashes between the army and protesters as well as police raids on non-government organizations and doesn't even go to school reports of discontent with the current regime is running high. the revolution may have toppled hosni mubarak the manager passions accuse 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 elections. produced. 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 jobs 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 are made what prompted the raids and what could possibly be so suspicious about n.g.o.s durations in post-revolutionary egypt. 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 transitional just. can't take a position. against the human rights to the station. and says. this is a new use for us 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 proof 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 may be trying to find evidence to prove that some of the trouble on the streets. has been in some way fostered by the. 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 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 with pressure on egyptian authorities that's 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 enjoy. 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. . coming up on our team making the russian army fighting fit we look into how moscow is reversing a downward spiral for its military with billions poured into reforms and new weaponry and. in this new book it's in the we won't play meal now sees rule here in the presidents of a quiet german town are determined to stop a neo nazi epidemic from spreading but are their efforts to know our team investigates. the arab league says syria's government has withdrawn heavy weapons from major cities and released some three thousand five hundred prisoners but the body confirms snipers are still posing a threat and called for an end to the shooting meanwhile syria's state run news agency says an explosion has set a gas pipeline in the troubled homes province one of

a number of similar attacks since the ten month long unrest began activists claim hundreds have been killed since the monitoring team arrived last week drawing criticism both from within syria and the arab group the league has called an emergency meeting to decide whether to withdraw also observers from syria amid continuing violence their mission is to ensure compliance with a peace plan in the country analysts patrick henningsen thinks events in syria are being manipulated with western powers and arab allies backing insurgent groups to promote regime change. a lot of these so-called human rights reports definitely skewed in favor of whatever the current western policies coming out of the us or london and what they would like to see happen in syria which is. people in the u.s. state department and the u.k. 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 insurgents and they're being backed in a material way by the u.s. by some of these countries who actually are in the air. guitar also has an interest in regime change in this country libya has sent al-qaeda fighters to under the command of the tripoli governor to go and fight in syria this contravenes all united nation laws ok if the us is actively involved in supporting this they are culpable in international court says the collapse of the military oriented soviet union russia's armed forces have suffered a gradual decay and major reforms have now been put into place to put them back on track moscow will pump more than 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 envoy to nato will now put his long experience to good use helping revamp the country's military artie's tom barton

explains why changes are needed. the russian armed forces the pride of the nation or are they there are one forces falling behind a half or 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 bite or broad new purchases include this land the sole ship the mistrial brought 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 by william gray or 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 designers come up with some excellent hardware for instance in terms of fighter and combat aircraft some time the industry has trouble in maintaining a base at a high level and i should reduce the number of 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 very much. 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 say. in two thousand and eight russian forces pushed the georgian army out of south in just five days but experts were dismayed at 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 all into 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. auti moscow and still have for you this hour the key to success. the same question everybody answer from all over the world

on the radio 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 a far more the more i really felt i was a person we hear from the man who moved to russia years ago to explore some of the country's neglected lands and transform them into a flourishing business success he reveals his secrets in our special series of the past five years. and now take a look at what's making news headlines around the world this hour tens of thousands have rallied in central budapest to protest against the new hunger and constitution a day after it came into force activists chanted anti-government slogans and denounced president viktor orban central right machine as a dictatorship they say the new laws undermine democracy and threaten judicial independence the legislation was pushed through parliament last april despite criticism from the us and e.u. . in the u.s.

republican presidential hopefuls are competing to win over the people of iowa in the first election of the voting season the polls are the first in the state by state contests to choose the republican contender for barack obama most white house chair in the presidential election and leader of this year candidates ron paul drake santorum and mitt romney are the current favorites around one hundred twenty thousand are expected to vote in tuesday's party election. in afghanistan a suicide bomber on a motorcycle has killed five people including a police officer in the city of the hot and official said the explosives were set off near a police checkpoint injuring sixteen others there was no clear target for the attack but it may have been aimed at a police vehicle that was operating in the area. massive forest fires have swept through chile's southern and central regions with one confirmed death and over twenty thousand hectares of homes destroyed hundreds have been forced from their

homes as firefighters battled to control the fierce blaze that spread across three provinces chile south is currently suffering from a prolonged drought and heat wave making it highly susceptible to fires and israeli tourist has been accused of negligently starting the blaze while camping in the region's paying national park. in the past few years many e.u. countries have seen a growth in neo nazi groups and in germany more and more young people are joining them some point to poor economic conditions others say immigration policies are to blame here go to school now reports on what's driving youngsters along such a dangerous path. a quiet town 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 neil nazis marched through the town's main square ties a r i used to be afraid but it helps not to act to learn to have supporters i became a public person with our initiative and it sort of my protection the end the nazi initiative is actively supported by around fifty locals many are tired 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 in merging the teenager to set the social center on fire he now faces up to two years behind bars in this new book within that we won't let me know nazis rule here yet not all locals agree the initiative is often criticized the neo nazi party even deemed three percent of votes at the most recent local time in the election deferred on the incidents some say we're operating and are only

making things worse by attracting too much and i think their employee afraid to create new members as spenders with poor infrastructure and high unemployment and few socialist schemes which the town can offer it's often simply boredom driving next six thousand people saw some as a tip on histories 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 do say they're not getting any money exists on a much wider scale thousands of neo nazis gather for annual marches in dresden often clashing with police and empty fascist activists and in the bammer german authorities caught two suspects believed to be members of a neo nazi terror cell that is keep them stupid. but is. it trouble economic on the wrist causes in family conflict and for

families and if they are not solved we have a kind of rage but now the rage was you know escalated racist germany's maybe on spending billions to pull the eurozone crisis but ignoring economic trouble at home could be at its period if we were unchecked it may not be able to disenfranchise you drank the entire country toward some of the biggest mistakes of this past. germany so all rights groups have slammed a controversial new defense bill signed by president obama as indefinite detention of terror suspects without charge or trial president obama said he had serious reservations about the bill and will not make use of all of its provisions but human rights groups called it a blight on obama's legacy as future private presidents couldn't use it to its fullest extent this comes as the notorious guantanamo bay prison remains open

almost four years after president obama promised to shut it down sara flounders a from the international action center says the new bill violates the basic democratic rights that the u.n. . and new struggles. plenty more stories news and analysis online that are here of some of what's lined up for you right now. tough times for the euro the ten year old single currency prospects for twenty. we've got the details online. and the ceiling and all of that is real secrets of turkish satellite is to blur the lines for its image sensitive former leaving it focus for the rest of the world to see all that and much much more art. is to.

be official. from. the. video. and. thanks for being with us on our where we continue to introduce you to the foreigners who have achieved successes by doing business in russia and our pathfinder series we talked to experts who discovered and then realize the country's full potential.

john used to make his living trading coal in great britain but fifteen years ago he moved to russia and became a farmer now married to a russian he owns one of the country's most profitable dairy farms. when we went on these lines people hadn't worked on the between two years we had forest growing today these lines are now working we have a whale of a four thousand take does this year ten twelve years ago the people applying approval for old mill 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 to write 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. made sculler. cows are the easiest thing to manage as 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 just finding

new ones in a farm in the west a 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 faster 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 asking do you want. in these ten years the market has evolved we've got investments now we've got. we've got them in from germany we've got company and we've got pepsi if you work here properly you've got big plans you can do big farms i'm just really efficiency of scale because lannes more efficiency starts to be a 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 in america gets boring after a while everything's there everything's simple here. the same question everybody answers the 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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thanks for being with us a three thirty here in moscow and characterize for the quick look at your headlines around warns the united states it will take action and an american warship returns to its base in the gulf where has been test firing missiles there is criticism that the u.s. is provoking slapping down ever more crippling sanctions. gyptian head to the polls in the third round of parliamentary elections with the vote expected to be dominated by islamist groups but 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 arab league observers say syrian leaders have pulled heavy weapons out of the cities and released prisoners but the group is still looking for ways to end the ongoing

violence meanwhile syria's state run news agency says a new explosion has had a gas pipeline in the restive province. up next our financial guru max kinds or subjects the economic headlines to his own unique brand of scrutiny. max kaiser welcome to the kaiser report one of the great things about doing a show on our today is that new year lasts oh seems like almost two weeks they say herbert allen mags is only eight days they're a light weight we're still partying here. well that's because i found what's considered to be a shot in russia a shot of vodka look at this is not a cannonball though.