it is good to have you with us today this is live from moscow with may rule research a iran has warned the united states it will take action if an american warship returns to the persian gulf it left the area when iran started his ten day naval war games during which they successfully testified a number of different missiles but russia the defense ministry says that despite that latest military exercise the iranians don't have the technology to make intercontinental ballistic missiles francaise pushing for strict sanctions as it says its shoulder tehran is developing nuclear weapons it's urge the e.u. countries to follow the u.s. and freezing iranian central bank assets and imposing an embargo on oil exports to iran has been threatening to block the strait of almost one of the world's most

important oil routes if the west stepped up sanctions james corbet the editor of the colbert report website says tensions in the region will only rise if the u.s. and its allies continue to pressure iran. and i don't think it's quite remarkable to think that france and the u.s. 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 the escalation in recent weeks with the recent ten day military drill in the in the straits of hormuz has to be weighing heavily on the minds 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 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. you without saying it's good to have a company today and coming your way in the program the righteous fight a quiet german becomes a battlefield between neo nazis and those prepared to stand up to the full story that's coming your way shortly. jordan is hosting the first a bilateral meeting between the israeli and palestinian negotiators this and more

than a year it's considered a last ditch attempt to revive direct peace talks aimed at reaching a two state solution the palestinian president says his side it will take a quote tough new measures if the meeting fails to bring any progress. has morphed out of me. 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 negotiations and should not be confused to be done in direct negotiations themselves. 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 the chief palestinian negotiator has called on israel to stop with that settlement building to release all palestinian prisoners and to recommit itself to a palestinian state within one thousand nine hundred sixty seven borders he says

that if israel 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 israel launched a series of strikes on gaza 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 him 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 the mood is really not that upbeat and most people don't really expect anything significant to come out of these talks. right there well as usual we are always interested in your opinion today jordanian mideast peace talks

are the subject of our latest global online poll just out of the website you dot com you can take part right now bringing up the numbers i see how you're voting today right now over half of you say it will be a futile attempt to bring israel and palestine together for the second highest number of voters think it will end up a major diplomatic disaster and a minority claim that will actually become a first step towards a new accords by previous ones agreed upon a camp david do go online. dot com i don't while you're there check out these stories are also covered for you on our website. so i think it sends up a new eye in the sky to find out about the if you want to find out rather about the satellite it could be giving the rest of the world close up images of israel for the very first time also online. check out this adorable footage of a panda cub settling into his new home in a chinese others just one of the many videos we have on our t.v.

you tube channel. four news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. giant corporations are today. you're watching r.t. egyptians are voting in the third round of their first post revolution parliamentary election for the country's leading islamist party is expected to dominate with results just ten days the vote will see a transition of power from the army which has been in charge since the toppling of president mubarak and for a very 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 just last month the previous round of voting was overshadowed by violent clashes between protesters and the army and government raids on a charitable organizations last week of also added to the bad sentiment and authorities are reports from cairo discontent is still 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 we received a very dangerous situation because you have your actions on the one hand producing a. but the people on the streets pushing for change secularists who have links with these groups so it's a sign that this big tension really between washington and kyra. cellphones 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 mean what prompted the raids and what could possibly be so suspicious about it and you operators and 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 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 of everything in. didn't give a simple answer whether he wanted bank statements or anything else from mccain sitting on a sidewalk by their former office the vix it and geo workers point out a certain irony this never happened when mubarak charge was our surprise. to the police but also to the concession i just.

can't take a position. against so human rights activists. say she. says . this is a new year 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 prove foreign funding over going is ations 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 some of the troubling times has been in some way fostered by these n.g.o.s washington tirelessly repeats

the old a dodge 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 put pressure on egyptian authorities that the pressure has to come from the egyptians and we as a. rights organization should provide it the mother my mother knew from us whatever the real reasons for the raids 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. . still to come ahead of the program here on the secrets of my success.

in america we don't have that chance anymore because the land gold taken it's very expensive to begin farming here we have a chance to take as much land as needed but it's not used if we visit a dairy farm or run by ex-pats who came to russia. to milk the country's potential to the fullest. close up she has been to you stuck. to the most ambitious football club in the world. only. argy goes to the far east where the timber industry the legendary siberian tigers where the native community loses its way in the modern world. and where the country's mineral wealth starts its way across the ocean. to the mars creature

russia. this is the line from moscow russia is speeding up the reform modernization of its forces the military hasn't been a top priority since soviet times but the kremlin is now eager to set that right and as. reports change is long overdue year. the russian armed forces the pride of the nation or are they the russian forces certainly falling behind and have fallen behind some of their larger rivals 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 he just. me 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 a broad new purchases include this london ship the mistral bought from france lorries from italy and flying drones from israel drones approved of the tickler problem the defense ministry dismayed by the russian company tasked with designing and building them yet. i asked them up 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 but 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 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 rearmament is going just fine and that buying foreign weapons undermines russia's military. independence. we are becoming dependent on foreign suppliers of spare parts for military equipment and foreign military personnel training on foreign supplies will specific fuels and lubricants and other substances needed for the new equipment. in two thousand and eight russian forces

pushed the children of the out of sight of the city 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 won here in the corridors of government and in factories around russia. r.t. moscow. right now it's going to some other world news for you in brief there's our time for the r.t. world update us turn our attention now to libya where fighting has broken out in the center of the capital between two armed militia groups leaving at least five people dead at the clashes thought of started after former rebels are based in tripoli arrested fighters who belong to a rival group from the city of misrata on new year's eve when you say the tripoli

militia arrested six men brought them inside a council between a building excuse me attacked them and detained by the resulting intense battle on tuesday and all machine guns rocket propelled grenades and bantry aircraft guns and eight month civil war in libya ended in october but there are concerns of a growing hostility between rival tribal groups. the arab league has called an emergency meeting to discuss whether to withdraw its observers from syria france has voiced douthat of the effectiveness of the league's monitors in the country amid concerns that forces are still killing anti-government protesters in the most recent wave of trouble a gas pipeline exploded in homs province i wish the government has blamed on terrorists five thousand people have been killed in syria since the uprising began last march. thirteen people have died in three separate bomb blasts in the afghan city of kandahar in the first day motorbike bomber detonated explosives at

a police checkpoint killing four including one police officer official say the target may have been nearby a police vehicle the second attack of the day thought to be against a nato convoy killed a child who was nearby. the taliban says it has struck a deal with cutter to open a political office there or 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 afghan prisoners 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 but sometimes divides whole towns between those in favor of extremism and

those trying to make a stand you got a piece going off now investigates was 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 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 then we won't let me go now sees rule here yet to not all locals agree the initiative is often criticised the neo nazi party even being three percent of votes at the most recent local parliament election the. beans that had split our town some say were 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 socialist schemes which the town can offer it's often simply boredom driving them to streams where the population of just around six thousand people thoughts on 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 vantine and the other activists do say they're not going to back down until after it turns back to normal but unfortunately the problem with neo nazis in germany exists on a much wider scale. thousands of new gather for a new all marches in dresden often clashing with police and fascist activists and in november german authorities caught two suspects believed to be members of a neo nazi terror cell that is keep them for years and were involved in killing at least ten foreigners but analysts say boredom is no excuse it's money struggles which are igniting the trouble of course economic. causes families conflict and families and if they are not solved we have a kind of rage but now the rage was you know escalated

racist education germany's maybe on spending billions to call the euro zone crisis but ignoring economic trouble at home could be at its pearl if you have to check it may not be too long before disenfranchised youth drags the entire country toward some of the biggest mistakes of its past. or to germany. and that we continue with our new series on reports excuse me of a foreigners who are venture to russia and achieved huge success here. today we catch up with a british farmer who moved to russia fifteen years ago to milk the country's potential. 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 whale of

a four thousand hectares this year ten twelve years ago people are paying a ruble for milk and even at the ruble 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 milk 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 started 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 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 good it's a nice car 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 finished and certain forms to fill out so that we can see they did their job or that 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 tools every day you 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 if 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 here. 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 done on the go to uni mill we've got em in 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 farms i'm shit really efficiency of scale because lannes more efficiency of 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. 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 is simple here. the same question everybody answers a farmer all over the world how do 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 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 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 call i just saw a paper here i'm seeing the product i get a great sense of satisfaction by doing. we will be meeting more business trailblazers in russia and now a special paul find this series of subtly over the next two weeks here and. more headlines with me will researcher to come your way off to this short break and.

i had a family i lived in a fairly nice community wasn't which was an upscale it was just like you know archie bunker society ok then they started showing up here what happened was my company decided i could get cheap labor and they got rid of us. those are.

the rules of the eaglets line legally we have to get up every morning we have to go to work and you know we have to pay our bills and we have to do it and that's just the american dream and if you want the american dream you have to go by the last like figure is here's one of the major trails in the united states and. i watch and they run run down my property and about this noise. bothers them both mean that cockroaches from coming over the wire is protecting the country i'm the kind of guy who doesn't mind it is pants dirty so i come out here you know we're all. immigrants as well that we all accuse i'm sorry. white stream cascading from mom slopes the view is miss mirage. but this beauty brings death at a speed of more than four hundred kilometers per. stepping down of

a launch. now it's not about spilling blood. just the war of the barricades from one side and fears blockade from the other. invisible border has cut people from the land for twelve years. the conflict that divided serbia into two hostile parts is still not over. the. right to clean a ghost town. squandered money. abandoned mine. what is now. more than

sixty square kilometers of environment from the mistake. and those who are still surprisingly in line i'm fighting for just. the spirit bad out here. but not saying hardly any birds squirrels you know. you know i don't know what's going on here. if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to you this is you live from moscow the headlines turning up the tension front schools for tough new sanctions against iran targeting the country's financial and energy sectors it's accusing iran of developing nuclear weapons even as iran says it's ready to talk with the west.