new sanctions adopted on. top. can imagine if it was the other way around if these sanctions were against american exports of oil or if this sinks us or against china for instance assuming china you know main source of of of foreign exchange for china will be to export energy it is an act of war in this ng is how you're going to implemented and who's going to respect me with your opinions like you know the french foreign ministry pathetically is saying look we have to curb our imports of iranian oil what's going to happen to the european economy if that happens you know now it's one hundred eighth a barrel so it's going to be one hundred trainee any one month's could be one hundred forty one hundred fifty and you want to recover the economies of the u.s. and europe as well with oil at one hundred fifty it's not going to happen and it's totally counterproductive. law and amendments and the way it's going to be

interpreted by the obama administration i'm not sure they're going to try to provoke a confrontation against south korea for instance an ally with russia with china or with countries in south america or essentially or for that matter. the editor of the colbert report current affairs website so it's further pressure the u.s. and its allies on iran push the region to the edge. i 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 iran to run 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 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. but we're always keen to know your take on the story today we're asking what you believe new sanctions on iran would bring so far if the sanctions will bring the changes about twenty seven percent of the oil prices will soar as a result of fracking a pleasant little shaky financial situation the rest are fairly evenly split between whether the new measures will punish the right people instead of them to do this or that will be pushed to desperation or sanctions regarded as a matter. but only on t.v. . the presidential campaign is now underway and then missed in the u.s. with the first contest of the term in a single republican nominee taking place in the state of iowa social conservative

rick santorum people at the home and former massachusetts governor mitt romney are the front runners according to early results i was suppose on largely seen as setting the tone for the nomination of. candidates attention the public on the roof a song from the student bomber and then this presidential election a former congressional aide and diplomat been in the news it's one pool who stands out from the rest but is unlikely to get enough support from his fellow republicans . in his foreign policy is very distinct from the other candidates in that he has a more isolationist viewpoint he wants the united states to retreat from international. affairs and some areas that can be good he's opposed to military action with the ron he was opposed to the iraq war but the other candidates are all extremely hawkish on foreign policy very conservative and ron paul does stand out among. voters want to see. leading the party in getting other republicans on

board to really. know. someone who says i am a free american and i can make it on my own and that's really embodies. but republicans also understand that kind of positioning will not win in the general election against president obama. meanwhile things are not looking too good for president obama either having been elected on a wave of hope four years ago he now faces a drop in popularity among this illusion democrats as marina point nine it's been finding out. three years ago one historic campaign turned u.s. politics into a pop culture phenomenon. for a democratic candidate achieved unprecedented support international fame and a record breaking six hundred fifty million dollars in donations.

thousands of new yorkers celebrated the victory clutching an enormous american flag hand sewn by obama supporters but the winds have changed and the very same democratic symbol waved in honor of the president elect in no way each strayed from a cherished right has been donated to a movement that became a phenomenon in two thousand and eleven or thereabouts when people holding out david my food out organized the flag project after being inspired by obama rhetoric a dream shattered by the subsequent years of politics as usual curly what's inspiring me as a as a lot of us like that that's the thing that's inspiring me now but that's why i brought the fight so ws and the thing that inspired me about it is the fact that it's a grassroots movement. that had a like a very clear and transparent process artist shepard fairey seems similarly just an chanted releasing an updated version of his iconic hope poster replacing obama with

his now clear support for occupy wall street with an economy still in crisis wall street largely unregulated social programs slashed and over forty five million citizens on food stamps it all starts with making a decision to get involved obama's familiar prose may not be enough to win back his familiar fan base who didn't produce what people wanted him to produce in two thousand and eight professor and author dr cornel west was one of obama's biggest supporters i think he's got the beers you've got the newness he's. at the freshness taking part in more than one hundred campaign events but last april the prominent intellectual told r.t. that obama has failed he's a friendly face of the american empire abroad he's in the process actually of becoming very sadly a pawn of big finance and a puppet of big business and any politician here knows they are in trouble when the

hollywood a listers start turning their backs are you happy with the way that obama has been running the country. no no no and i think i really think he misinterpreted his. yes the approval ratings show voters are even more turned off with the alternatives leaving obama seemingly the lesser of two evils america's president clearly enters the twenty twelve race amid a growing band of disillusioned democrats most will still back barack obama over his republican rivals arguably with heavy hearts in two thousand and eighty was the unassailable candidate of choice this time mr obama is likely to stay in my default. new york. also ahead for you this hour the secret recipe for success in making a big in business in russia a highlight to ex-pats entrepreneurs serving up delicious treats and profits just

a commuter. bus two families two children and one makes up this story is one of confusion heartache and the most amazing friendship that's ahead. in the third and final stage of egypt's parliamentary election resumes on wednesday the countries that meeting is the most part is expected to dominate with the results in a few days the vote comes amid continuing political tensions but it really is in charge since president barrack was toppled nearly a year ago being accused of clinging to power. previous round two was overshadowed by violent clashes between protesters and the army on the raids on western sponsored n.g.o.s last week also a sense of instability the stakes. to stabilize egypt the military has to give its people what they want and step down. majority of egyptians to the military to be

defense outfit defending the concrete against outside. intervention and not play a political role it's all because for the last thirty to forty years egypt has changed. well they were under mubarak or under some dark being no more eight hundred eighty two ships run by the miller crean people want an end to that so when the military want. more barack on cry again it's an attempt to divert attention from its own rule in the concrete damaeus what is really worrying people and that is all should be discussed and checking the. jim carrey is is so i think to show that foreign buyers are manipulating. crude so which is again nonsense i think washington has a great deal of influence within the military after all it billions of dollars i mean big you know billion dollars a year that's

a huge amount of money. and meanwhile the arab league wants an emergency meeting on whether to withdraw its observers from syria where violence between the army and antigovernment protesters continues well next our middle eastern politics expert dr danny salt says there's a tunnel vision that comes to deciding just who is doing the killing and what's ahead. in the report. the human rights council report four thousand but there was no explanation of that where they go now if you know it's late or nothing pillai who's the u.n. human rights commission he thought up a few security council and said five thousand. and the figure echoes around the world and i think it lodges in the popular imagination this is five thousand people being killed by the syrian government security forces by the neutral whatever whereas in fact i don't think it's any doubt at all that

a large number of military of civilians have been killed by armed gangs about it but by this so what we actually need to do is to aggregate these figures. curbing a gang violence is now one of the top priorities for britain's leaders but for some of the efforts will be in vain or invest the government tackles an underlying culture of fear as laura smith reports now from london. the dark underbelly of life in britain is in a city's gang culture dramatized here for a television series for gavin it was real life he got into a gang to escape a feeling of powerlessness an abusive home life where money was a constant struggle.

so. angry over the top. for the crazy. people. at his lowest ebb gavin admits to having stabbed a girl and his story isn't unusual in deprived areas nowhere is the question of how to solve the gang problem in london more relevant than here in new. london two thousand and twelve olympic park but it's also got more gangs than almost anywhere else in london around here young people say you start just by hanging out with your friends on the streets and you end up in a spiral of gang violence and fear. in you're more than half of the kids are living below the poverty line and they don't feel the government's doing anything to help

them how can you hold me. you have to have a. i don't. know in a bar. in london. the neighbor. and the neighbor. if the government really knew and understood would be happening. when gavin met sheldon thomas an ex gangster himself he turned a corner and they're now working in a team to get young people out of gangs the government claims it wants the same thing and having laid the blame for august's riots firmly at the door of gangs their solution the carrot and stick method are as you found some excellent police work to identify and manage the highest risk members through a combination of targeted surveillance enforcement and arrest renny offense however minor and positive offers of training employment and drugs treatment for those who

want a different life. but for those not prepared to break away from violence they will face harsher and tougher punishments but this isn't going to work according to sheldon thomas who feels the government is forcing him at every turn what they do is they look at the manifestation of gangs gun violence. gang rape. that's just a manifestation of. the. family breakdown moles on the window. while the government rhetoric sounds encouraging other policies will undermine both carrot and stick economic austerity cuts will mean sixteen thousand fewer police officers on the streets and services that deal directly with gangs now will have their funding cut by between twenty and ninety percent in some areas that means young people like gavin in the future will have

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a decent crust from russia's premium bakery they've been running the biggest operation of its kind of bosco for over four years thanks thank you this is a taste of what it takes. i am twice a week in the production sector and the rest of the time i'm no restaurant genya. but here that's just to make sure everything is ok definitely in the way when you are starting something new everything in. the industry has existed here we had to do everything from scratch. when we started the business we realized. we had to. really difficult objectives one was that we had to create our own brand and we decided to license at least initially in the nation's national brand for us and the whole point of our project the whole point of the business was that these products i call the bakery hardly exist in russia today you don't get many customers here

you can't help in. this and it costs. we should be greeted every time every time we are developing a company culture you know and one of the most difficult things in russia a few years ago was to make sure your lines that smile is just smile if it's not in russian culture at the beginning i would say if i come to the restaurant and if you're smiling i will give you one hundred. if you're not. really ever my desire your is away so good for me it's a game but it's still a chat the first was that we spent in two thousand and six we spent nine months developing a very small factory we basically had a thirty square meter room where we were trying to make something like fifty products fresh every day and the biggest challenge was the local ingredients it would be insane to import. flour to russia when russia is one of the biggest low exporters in the world we were very very lucky that we did this because by the end

of two thousand and eight when the recession started the first thing that happened in the recession in russia was a collapse of the ruble exchange rate compared to the euro so suddenly overnight imported prices were up thirty forty percent and that is deadly for any kind of business like gods but for us at least the cost of our products was relatively stable because for the main ingredients like sugar like flour we were using locally made products. it's still a lot of things happens in russia mechanically in the service industry we have a hard time the idea they followed the rules or did they have a problem so this is the difficulty in russia united states or in europe it's a little bit easier because they have be used to it. you need to empty the garbage cans you need to clean up that place what is that card from there however on the other hand if we see that your heart they take it to heart. in

other cultures that may be a little more difficult the idea to build a bakery business in russia was exactly right the idea that the competition wasn't so high in this sector i would do again but i think i would make sure that we raise a bit more capital upfront than we did i would also make sure i think that we invest at the beginning far more in training of production people than we did we should have outsourced much less than we did four years ago we should have made much many more cells and then we would be even more successful than we are today i think but yes i would absolutely. yes and there will have more ports on foreign entrant. even getting big in business in russia in our part far in the series throughout the week. now more of the world's news this hour the first to south sudan where thousands of

youths from an ethnic group who attacked a rival community have been repelled by government troops their attack on a ton of people reportedly left at least one hundred fifty dead who scores of others those to be the pilots. troops and security in the area they couldn't prevent the deadly fighting that was sparked by cattle rates. chile is battling a several massive wildfires at least one person killed in the blazes efforts to cope with the disaster are being hampered by intense heat and strong winds hundreds of people have been evacuated from the area many homes destroyed in or thirty's recently arrested and later bailed an israeli tourist on suspicion of starting a huge forest and national park. next a terrible tangle to go on at the same time and in the same ward in the russian urals who were accidentally swapped ending up with the wrong parents telling the

touching story of a maternity mistake that took years to be discovered. meet anya she's thirteen years old muslim and lives with her father nine in the chalabi town of copy paste on the other side of town also thirteen lives with her russian orthodox mother junia despite their differences in religion and culture they are recent friends sharing the same birthdays and ties that bind them deeper than what lies on the surface the long and simple in that moment i was in such a state of shock that i thought it was all a joke of in one thousand nine hundred eight anya an arena born only fifteen minutes apart in the same hospital were accidentally switched at birth the discovery happened with us ex-husband who claimed arena his daughter looked nothing like him he refused to pay alimony but yulia insisted upon her innocence had the family take not one but two d.n.a. tests the results showed that in fact the ex was not the father and both results showed that yulia was not arena's mother but that

a bit of almost my first thought was that irina doesn't find out and the second was where is my biological child born with her lawyer and investigators by her side yulia discovered her biological child anya was living on the other side of town with ny much as. told me they switch my child with another at the hospital they said your biological child is with another family they gave me a picture of her and i was in shock for about forty minutes my hands and legs were shaking. two days later reluctantly phoned yulia they met and decided to first introduce the girls to each other after they became friends the truth would be revealed to each of them separately but i was relieved to be the first time i got used to girls to each other we came to visit we took pictures. walked around and ate ice queen role model later she told me that when i went it was my biological father in the beginning i didn't believe that what my mother said it's true i'm not lying or will irina ananya now close friends decided to remain with the parents who

raised them but the inconvenience of living in different suburbs makes it much harder for the families to meet often so it's appalled that it breaks your heart one day back and forth i don't think that's the way to live it isn't adds to the suffering it's the teenage girls that now face social hardships their separate cultures beliefs and habits make understanding each other difficult very different they pray they don't speak when they speak i don't understand what they are saying what if they're saying something about going to all the wrong regardless of their differences irina and anya are happy to have each other as friends no matter the reasons that brought them together karen tara our moscow. i'll be back with a headlight shortly stated. white

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welcome back a look now at the headlines the u.s. . demands not to bring its aircraft back to the persian gulf saying it will continue its troop presence. the standoff between the two sides is sparking fears of a new military conflict. u.s. republicans have cast their vote in the first. presidential nominee to hopefuls leaving the home and one paul isn't with his he's being blamed for not winning enough support from the members. of the top priorities for britain's leaders. courses and tackling first deep seated poverty in

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