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it's quite remarkable to think that france and the us and other countries would be willing to step up sanctions that have already had such a profound effect on the iranian people on the basis of their hunch that erodes iran is developing nuclear weapons as as france has basically put it is quite remarkable because that really does is tantamount to an act of war and and really the i think the only logical outcome for this is another increase in military tensions between the countries involved in that region that are already on the knife edge of military tension so it is quite an explosive thing to be talking about and i think of the escalation in recent weeks with the recent ten day military drill in in the straits of hormuz has to be weighing heavily on the minds of of the u.s. and others but but i think really the idea that iran would really close off the straits of hormuz or attempt to do so would only be an absolute last measure resort for a country that relies on the importation of refined gasoline and other things through the very straits that they would be a sensibly sabotaging and planting mines in so it's it's quite remarkable to think
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that that iran would do that in any other situation other than they felt that the entire existence of their country was under threat so adding more sanctions to to the mix is is really just a recipe for military disaster i think your authority coming your way in the program a righteous fight. a quiet german town becomes a battlefield between neo nazis and those prepared to stand up to that full story is just ahead. jordan as set to host the first bilateral meeting between israeli and palestinian negotiators and more than a year it's considered a last ditch attempt to revive direct peace talks and at reaching a two state solution powell saying president says his side will take tough new measures if the meeting fails to bring progress archies policy or from tel aviv has more. both sides have played down any kind of expectation that there will be a breakthrough in these talks saying that these will not lead to direct
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negotiations and should not be confused to be done in direct negotiations themselves jordanian diplomat said that these talks will not solve anything although they do bring a new energy to the table the israeli defense minister put it this way he said that these are negotiations about negotiations now the last time that israelis and palestinians sat down around the negotiating table was more than a year ago this time around they will be representatives from both israelis and palestinians they will be representatives from the quartet as well as the jordanian foreign minister they will be discussing the stored middle east peace process and they will be looking again at the positions of both sides and the major issues that they will be trying to address issues of border and security now the chief palestinian negotiator has called on israel to stop with its settlement building to release palestinian prisoners and to recommit itself to a palestinian state within one hundred sixty seven borders he says that if israel
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does this it will show a commitment on the israeli side to restart peace talks just last week there were several palestinians who were killed when this all launched a series of strikes on gaza the israeli said that those were in response to palestinian militants firing into southern israel these raids also concerned that any kind of negotiations that they reach with will not be adhered to by from us until there is a reconsideration deal in place between these two palestinian groups the other stumbling block is of course the whole issue of settlements and he had the netanyahu government has shown that it is continuing to build settlements despite the international criticism these radius of say that they can be no preconditions for these talks what most people are hoping for is that both sides will come to the party and will really just put forward where they stand and what they're prepared to do but it is worth mentioning that the mood is really not that upbeat and most people don't really expect anything significant to come out of these talks. we're
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always interested in your opinion and today those jordanian mideast peace talks are the subject of our latest online poll head to our web site r t dot com to take part . this hour over half of you say it will be a futile attempt to bring israel and palestine together the second highest number of voters think it will end a major diplomatic disaster and i'm not a minority claim it will actually become a first step towards a new accords like previous ones agree that camp david go online to cast your vote and while you're there check out these stories we're covering for you on our web site. turkey sounds out a new eye in the sky find out about the satellite which could give the rest of the world close up images of israel for the very first time also online. parent ammonium check out this footage of a panda cub settling into its new home in a chinese to just one of the videos we have at our you tube channel.
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news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. today. voting in the third round of their first post revolution parliamentary election and country's leading islamist party is expected to dominate in the polls system with results expected in ten days the vote will see a transition of power from the army which has been in charge since the toppling of president mubarak in february of last year mubarak in the meantime is on trial charged with complicity in the killing of more than eight hundred protesters during february's popular uprising last month the previous round of voting was overshadowed by violent clashes between protesters and. government raids on
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charitable organizations last week. also added to the bad feeling and. reports from cairo ntis content 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 very dangerous situation because you have elections. 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 remain what prompted the raids and what could possibly be so suspicious about energy all of the races in post-revolutionary egypt
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. 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 everything and didn't give a simple answer whether they wanted bank statements or anything else from mccann 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 he says i would surprise. the police but the. tickets are. just bought of his he can stick a position he agrees that he moderates the activity in the ways we believe they should. see. this is a new use for us human rights activists in egypt believe the rape. there are
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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 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 stabilization they want permanent
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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 offices 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 ahead in the program the secret of my success. in america we don't have that chance anymore because billions all taken it's very expensive and begin farming here we have a chance to do it as much land of need because it's not you revisit a dairy farm run by x. parents who made the move to russia and milk to the country's potential to the
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fullest. stream cascading from mountain slopes the view is midsomer much. of this beauty brings down at a speed of more than two hundred kilometers per. step in the long run on. wealthy british soil sun some time to. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for
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a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our. thanks for being with us six twelve here in moscow russia is a speeding up of the reforming and modernization of its armed forces military housing been a top priority since soviet times but the kremlin is now eager to set that right and as our t's tom barton reports change is long overdue. the russian armed forces the pride of the nation or are they there was one force a certain 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 russian arms manufacturers are no longer what they use today i mean she just. now is in need of contemporary modern equipment and
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if the russian defense industry can't yet provide us with what we need will buy it or broad new purchases include this land the soap ship the mistrial 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 i will pray again 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
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terms of fighter 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 reform still have angry opponents to both in and outside the armed forces many of them argue that the we are meant is going just fine and that buying foreign weapons undermines russia's military. independence commission because 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. sales. in 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 position it reinforced the need for serious change the money being thrown at the problem is vast but regiments of rubles on their own
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on to 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. some other world news in briefly this hour and first to libya where fighting has broken out in the center of tripoli between two armed militia groups they are thought to have been competing for control of a government building in the capital the intense battle involved machine guns rocket propelled grenades and anti-aircraft guns there was no immediate word on casualties an eight month civil war in libya ended in october but there are concerns over growing hostility between rival tribal groups. the arab league house hold an emergency meeting to discuss whether to withdraw its observers from syria france has voiced doubts over the effectiveness of the league's monitors in the country amid concerns that forces are still killing anti-government protesters in
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the most recent wave of trouble a gas pipeline exploded in homes problems which the government has blamed on terrorists five thousand people have been killed in syria since the uprising began last march. a suicide blast in afghanistan has killed five people and injured over a dozen others the attack happened when a motorbike bomber detonated his explosives at a police checkpoint in the city of kandahar among those killed were four civilians and a police officer with many children suffering injuries officials say there was no clear target for the attack but it may have been aimed at a nearby police vehicle. the taliban says it has struck a deal with qatar to open a political office there the plan is being seen as a major step towards ending the ten year war in afghanistan germany and the u.s. have been urging the group to create representatives able to start peace negotiations the u.s. and taliban have previously held talks over issues such as the release of prisoners
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from guantanamo bay. despite a dark past with fascism like many other european countries germany is seeing a surge in support for neo nazi groups it's a problem that sometimes divides whole towns between those in favor of extremism and those trying to make a stand you know gore school of investigates what is driving young people down a violent path. a quiet down disturbed. a small community. 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 neo nazis marched through the town's main square. i used to be afraid but it helps not to act alone to have support i became
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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 and 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 criticised. even being three percent of at the most recent poll in the election to. 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 with poor infrastructure and high unemployment
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and few social skeets which the town can offer it's often simply boredom driving them to the streets when the population 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 neo nazis gather for a new all marches in dresden often clashing with police and fascist activists and in the bamberg german authorities called two suspects believed to be members of a terror cell that is keep them for years in killing at least ten foreigners but and it was no excuse it's money struggles which are igniting the trouble of course
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economic on the wrist causes families conflicts and families. solved we have a kind of rage but now the rage was you know escalated racist education germany's maybe on spending billions to pull the eurozone crisis but ignoring economic trouble at home could be at its spirit if we're unchecked it may not be too old before disenfranchised you drank the entire country toward some of the biggest mistakes of this past. forty germany. now we continue with our new series of reports on foreigners who have ventured to russia and the chief huge success here. today we catch up with
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a british farmer who moved to russia fifteen years ago to milk the country's potential jonker pisky and now 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 well over four thousand hectares this year ten twelve years ago people are paying a bubble for old milk and even though the rouble 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 market will be there and we went ahead. the first problem we encountered i think the 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 stock at the moment 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
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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. mates color. how is that easiest thing to manage its 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. 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 either you love money or you love russia without that you can't work here 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 a western 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
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order for you to get to 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. 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 company and we've got pepsi if you work here 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 is needed because it's not used. their ears are cold
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when 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 has a farmer all over the world 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'd be felt i was a real person i come here and i see the effect of the lies of abraham to 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 colored paper here i'm seeing the product i get a great sense of satisfaction by doing. more in business trailblazers in russia and our special pathfinder series over the
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next two weeks here on our team in a few moments we ask a former german chancellor how to avoid economic crisis in europe before that another look at today's top stories. thanks.
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would. thank you for joining us six thirty here in moscow karen with a quick recap of your headlines turning up the times france calls for new tougher sanctions against iran targeting the country's financial and energy sectors it's accusing problem of developing nuclear weapons even now as iran says it's ready to talk with the west about its atomic program. israel and the palestinians head back to the negotiating table for the first time since peace talks broke down more than a year ago but both sides have played down expectations of a breakthrough ahead of the meeting. and the russian military is trying to restore its former glory with the kremlin keen to reform the armed forces the military
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industrial complex has fallen behind technologically and become riddled with corruption. up next we talked to former german chancellor and current chairman of the north stream gas pipeline. he 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. goes through the world chills love germany from two thousand and four if he's no chairman of the board at nordstrom. to the baltic sea to europe for that war should increase its dependence on goes pro. i know. we're not talking about russia's depend we're talking about cooperation between russia.

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