meantime to block the strait of hormuz one of the world's most important oil routes if indeed the west did step up the sanctions james corbet the editor of the corporate report he says the tensions in the region will only rise if the u.s. and its allies continue to pressure iran. i 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 it's 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 sensible 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 an under threat so adding more sanctions to to the mix is is really just a recipe for military disaster i think. you went on to you it's good to have your company and still to come your way in the program the righteous fight a quiet german town becomes a battlefield between neo nazis and those prepared to stand up to the full story coming your way shortly. jordan is hosting the first a bilateral meeting between israeli and palestinian negotiators in more than one

yet 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 will take quote tough new measures if the meeting fails to bring progress. has details from tel aviv. 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 and 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 its 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 these were 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 reconciliation deal in place between these two palestinian groups the other stumbling block is of course the whole issue of settlements and he had be on yahoo 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 peace talks the mood is really not that upbeat and most people don't really expect anything significant to come out of these talks. reporting. we are always interested in your opinion today those mideast peace talks are the subject

of our latest online global poll if you had to our web site also you dot com you can take part right now let us know what you think the numbers are speak for themselves. you say it will be a few to bring israel and palestine together the second highest number of voters think it will end up in a major diplomatic disaster the minority claim it will actually become a first step towards a new a poor previous ones agreed upon at camp david do you go online. to check out the stories that we are covering for you right now on our web site such as turkey sends up a new i in the sky find out about the satellite which could give the rest of the world closeup images of israel for the very first time also online. monium have a look at this furry friend here. settling into his new home in

a chinese soup just one of the many videos we have. more news today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. a giant corporations are today. it is good to have you with us here in our three egyptians are voting in the third round of their first post revolution up parliamentary election the country's leading islamist party is expected to dominate with the results due in 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 in february of last year. in the meantime is on trial charged

with complicity in the killing of more than eight hundred protesters during it for various popular uprising 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 feeling. reports from cairo discontent 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. rise of these issues last week for this is a very dangerous situation because you have the elections on the one hand producing a majority but the people in 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 me what prompted the raids and what could possibly be so suspicious about entry all operations 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 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 go. of a simple answer whether he 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 of our surprise. to the police but the. difference. is you

can't take a position. against a human rights activist. says. this 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 the seems to be a strand of opinion inside the military inside the state machine that. is very disillusioned with the friendship with the west and may be trying to find evidence to prove that some of the trouble on the street some of the troubling times has been in some way fostered by these n.g.o.s 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. i don't like the way foreign countries put pressure on egyptian authorities that pressure has to come from the egyptians and we as a human right. should provided the mother mother. whatever the real reasons for the reigns 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 ahead in the program here in

the secret of my success. in america we don't have that chance anymore because. it's very expensive to begin farming here we have a chance to take as much land is needed for this not we visited. a greener pastures the country's potential to the fullest. has been. used to the most ambitious football club in the world. only. goes to the far east where the timber industry the legendary siberian tigers where the ancient native community loses its way in the modern world. and where the country's mineral wealth starts

its way across the ocean. to the. russia. it is. here in moscow you're watching azzi russia is speeding up the reform and modernization of its forces the military hasn't been a top priority since soviet times but the kremlin is now weak at a set that right now bottom reports change is long overdue. the russian armed forces the pride of the nation or are they the russian forces are

falling behind now 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 he 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 we'll buy to broad new purchases include this london ship the mistral bought from france lorries from italy and flying drones from israel drones are through to particular problem the defense ministry dismayed by the russian company tasked with designing and building them. i asked them what was their problem and what prevented them from producing good vehicles the enterprise is 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 commission. we are becoming dependent on foreign suppliers of spare parts for military equipment and foreign military personnel training on foreign supplies or specific fuels and lubricants

and other substances needed for the new equipment nonsense say other servers in two thousand and eight russian forces pushed the georgian army out of south 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 tom watson r.t. moscow. not as good as some other international headlines for your brief this hour time for the r.t. world update first to libya it's where fighting has broken out in the center of the capital between two armed militia groups at least five people now counted as dead the clash is thought to have started after former rebels based in tripoli arrested

fighters who belong to or why of all groups and city of misrata. what does it say the tripoli militia arrested six men brought them inside a council building beat them up to take them and the resulting intense battle on tuesday involved machine guns rocket propelled grenades and anti aircraft guns an eight month civil war in libya ended in october there are concerns over growing hostility between rival tribal groups. the arab league has called an emergency meeting to discuss whether to withdraw its observers from syria from says a voice over the effectiveness of the league's monitors in the country all amid concerns that forces are still killing antigovernment protesters in the most recent wave of trouble a gas pipeline exploded in homs province which 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

a bomb blasts in the afghan city of kandahar in the first a motorbike bomber detonated explosives at a police checkpoint killing four including a police officer official say the target may have been a nearby police fear called the second attack of the day thought to be against a nato convoy killed a child who was nearby. but taliban says it has struck a deal with qatar to open a political office the plan is being seen as a major step towards ending the ten year war in afghanistan and germany and the u.s. have been urging the group to create representatives able to start peace talks the u.s. on taliban have previously held discussions 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 that sometimes divides whole towns between those in favor of extremism and those trying to make a stand you go to skin off our investigates what's driving young people down a violent 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 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 n.t. not see an issue to visit actively supported by around fifty locals 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 and we won't let me go now sees rule here yet not all locals agree the initiative is often criticized the new tea party even being three percent of bullets at the most recent people in the election. the incident 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 for new nazis 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 extremes when 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 cause 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 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 it is keep them for years and were involved in killing at least ten foreigners but. 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 by racist education germany's maybe on spending billions to call the eurozone crisis but ignoring economic trouble at home could be at its pearl if unchecked it may be too long before disenfranchised youth drags the entire country toward some of the biggest mistakes of its past. or to germany. we continue with our new serious off reports on foreigners who venture to russia and achieved huge success here. and today we catch up with the british farmer who moved to russia fifteen years ago to milk the country's potential john kopecky now owns one of the country's most profitable dairy farms. when we went on these lines people hadn't worked on the for

twenty years we had photos growing today these lines are now working we have a whale of a four thousand and eight disease here ten twelve years ago with the people applying approval for 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 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 started and now john had the right 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 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 of six years with his family we should look at the manure more what do you think it's good it's nice how

nice color. colors are the easiest thing to manage is people that cause 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 faced 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 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 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 and you want. in these ten years the market has evolved we've got investments now we've got. we've got. going from germany we've got company now and we've got pepsi if you work here properly you've got big plans you can do big problems i'm just really efficiency of scale because learns 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. 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

has 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 tons of coal i never sold a colored paper here i'm seeing the product i get a great sense of satisfaction by doing. we will be meeting all business trailblazers in russia and our special pathfinder series over the next two weeks. a quick recap of the headlines with meat will resume shape in just a few moments. the

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and those who are still surprising new lives and finding are just good stuff that's getting bad out here. but not saying hardly any birds squirrels you know. ducks you know i don't know what's going on. concrete on our cheek. no it's not about spilling blood. this is 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.

here in the russian capital this is all the headlines now. up the tension the pentagon says u.s. warships will continue to sail in the gulf despite an iranian warning to stay away from an area where iran has recently testified missiles. israel and the palestinians will return to the negotiating table for the first. time since peace talks broke down more than a year ago. and the russian military is trying to restore its full mud glory with the kremlin king to reform the armed forces. those were the headlines here and he

puts up next it's the story of a catastrophic environmental disaster and the second part of our special report cold creek you're watching. we're right at the eight hundred foot elevation level right here and a lot of. mine discharges are coming. right at that. and you can tell that when the the red water mixes with the clear water that's the difference. although this looks clear it's still got a lot of metals in it because it's discharging out of the chat. the sides of the mine that has the minerals in it are submerged beneath the water and it's isolated from oxygen oxygen is the key. you know back when they first filling up there was a lot of oxygen available in the mines.