a very warm welcome to you this is the line from moscow i'm rule research the u.s. has responded to a warning from iran to keep its aircraft carriers out of the persian gulf by saying that its watch it will continue to sail that the american navy has pulled out of an area where iran was holding ten days of naval wargames during which it successfully test fired a number of different missiles but russia as a defense ministry says that despite the latest military exercise the iranians don't have the technology to make intercontinental ballistic missiles meanwhile france is pushing for stricter sanctions saying it's sure to iran is developing nuclear weapons and to urge e.u. countries to follow the u.s. in freezing iranian central bank assets and imposing an embargo on oil exports to

iran has been threatening to block the strait of hormuz one of the world's most important oil routes if indeed the west stepped up sanctions james corbet 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. think 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 era to run 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 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 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 always thought it's good to have your company today and coming up in the program here the righteous fight quiet in germantown becomes a battlefield between the only dark season those prepared to stand up to the full story that's coming your way in a few. jordan is hosting the first

a bilateral meeting between israeli and palestinian negotiators and more than a year is 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. as more 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 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 the 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 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 the israeli said that those were in response to palestinian militants firing into southern israel these raids are 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 here 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. they are there from tel aviv although we're always interested in your opinion today those jordanian mideast

peace talks are the subject of our latest online poll if you head over to our web site also you dot com you can take part right now it's see how the numbers are stacking up among all of us here right now about half of you say it will be a few tall attempts to bring israel and palestine together the second highest number of voters think it will end up in a major diplomatic disaster and a minority claim it will actually become a first step towards new accords like the previous ones agreed upon at camp david do go online. check out some of the stories we are covering for you on our website for example. he sends up a new i 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. have a look at this fuzzy furry friend pundit monium check out this footage of a panda cub his new home it's in

a chinese zoo it's just one of the many videos we have. the you tube channel. news today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. a giant corporations are today. this is r.t. live from moscow egyptians are voting in the third round of the first post revolution parliamentary election the country's leading islamist party is expected to dominate with those results is due in about 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 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 uprisings last month the previous round of voting was overshadowed by violent clashes between protesters and the army and government raids on charitable organizations last week of also added to the bad feeling that results he's a rino politico reports from cairo discontent 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 calling raids on human rights organizations last week for this is a very dangerous situation because you have the elections on the one hand producing a. but the people on the streets pushing for change and secularists who have links with these groups so it's a sign that there's big tension really between washington and kyra. 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 mean what prompted the raids and what could possibly be so suspicious about energy all of the races 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 of everything and didn't give a simple answer. whether they wanted bank statements or anything else other than macand sitting on a sidewalk by their former office the vicks it angio workers point out a certain irony this never happened when mubarak was in charge of our surprise. the police like. the current system just. can't take

a position. against the human rights activity and what they should. see. is a new 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 the 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 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. and i don't like the way foreign countries with pressure on egyptian authorities and that's pressure has to come from the egyptians and we as a human rights organizations. provided the market mohamed money from us whatever the real reasons for the raids avenge your 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 in a ghost co. meantime that middle east expert tariq ali says that in order to

stabilize egypt the military has to give its people what they want and step the large majority of egyptians want the military to be a defense outfit defending the country against out so attack or intervention and not clear political rather tall because for the last thirty to forty years egypt has essentially whether under mubarak or under some there have been a multi to indicate to ship run by the miller crean people who want an end to that so when the military works more barak on trial again it's an attempt to divert attention from its own rule in the country damaeus what is really worrying people and that is all should be discussed and attacking the. jim carrey is is so i think to show that foreign buyers are manipulating of concrete and so cruel which is again nonsense i think washington has

a great deal of influence within the military after all we hear billions of dollars i mean begin a billion dollars a year that's a huge amount of money. you with r t it's good to have your company today and i'm still coming up your way in the program the secret of my success. in america we don't have that chance anymore because glenn's all taken it's very expensive to begin farming here we have a chance to do as much land is needed because it's not used we visit a dairy farm or run by sue came to russia for greener pastures and ended up milking the country's potential to the fullest. russia is speeding up the reforming and modernization of its forces the military hasn't been a top priority since soviet times but on the kremlin's set right and it's on his time button reports change is long overdue. the russian

armed forces the pride of the nation or are they the russian forces are falling behind enough for a 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 she 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. broad new purchases include this london ship the mistral bought from france lorries from italy and flying drones from israel drones have proved a 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's bosses found plenty of excuses such as the absence of engines gliders exacta 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 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 but 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. or let's get to the world up here on r t some other headlines from around the world for you in brief first our attention to libya it's where the fighting has

broken out in the center of the capital between two armed militia groups leaving at least five people dead the clashes thought to have started after former rebels based in tripoli arrested fighters who belong to a rival in the city of misrata on new year's eve witnesses say the tripoli militia arrested six men brought them inside a council building beat them up and detained them and the resulting in tension battle on tuesday involved machine guns rocket propelled grenades and anti-aircraft guns an eight month civil war in libya did end in october but 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 france's voice down so over 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 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 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 officials say the target may have been a nearby 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 qatar to open up political office 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 a representative's able to start peace negotiations the u.s. and the taliban have previously held talks over issues such as the release of afghan prisoners from guantanamo bay. well despite a dark past with fascism like many other european countries and 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 artie's you're going to piss going off investigates what's driving young people down such a violent death. a quiet down disturbed. a small community devoid of. it began with the appearance of nazi symbols then the local social center was burned to the ground your 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 of the initiative is actively supported by around fifty locals maybe i 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 in this new book within that we won't let me know now sees rule here yet to not all locals agree the initiative is often criticized the neo nazi party even gained three percent of votes at the most recent local parliament 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 socialist schemes which the town can offer it's often simply boredom driving them

to extremes with a population of just around six thousand people thought 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 the 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 analysts say boredom is no excuse it's money struggles with your 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 eurozone crisis but ignoring economic trouble at home could be at its pearl. it may be too long before disenfranchised youth drags the entire country toward some of the biggest mistakes of its past. or to germany. and out his comedy of life in the heart of moscow now we continue with our new series of reports on foreigners who had ventured here to russia and achieved huge success. and are today we catch up with a british farmer who moved to russia fifteen years ago to milk the country's

potential john now as one of the country's most profitable dairy farms and his story is right now. when we went on these lines people hadn't worked on the between the years we had forest growing today these lines are now working we have a will over four thousand hectares this year ten twelve years ago people are paying a ruble for milk and even at a ruble we started our project we thought we could make money out of that we talked to various parties a place it was a good idea the mill 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 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 a good it's a nice cow makes 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 laws every day you just finding new ones in a farm in the west one 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 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 and you want. in these ten years the market has evolved we've got investments now we've got done on the go we've got. one 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 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 is needed because it's not used. 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 wants of the 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 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 colored paper here i'm seeing the product i get a great sense of satisfaction by doing. and we will be meeting more business travelers in russia in our special pathfinder series over the next two weeks here on our team do stay with us though

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odd. isn't it. odd that. the close up team has been to don you stop birthplace to the most ambitious football club in the world. naldo r g goes to the far east where the timber industry affects the legendary siberian tigers where the ancient native community loses its way in the modern world. and where the country's mental well starts its way across the ocean. come to the bars creature russia blows up.

the hour here in moscow you want he thought you had lines now ratcheting 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 tehran has recently testified. the first meeting between israeli and palestinian negotiators in over a year fails to bring a breakthrough but is held in what's being described as a positive atmosphere is the first step in an attempt to resume direct.