and britain's gang culture point london's youth say they have nowhere to turn but the streets. were costing live twenty four hours a day this is r.t. the us says it's warships will continue their missions in the persian gulf in response to rounds warning to keep the aircraft carriers one away from its waters tensions rose as the u.s.s. john stennis passed through an area where ron was holding ten days of naval war games and the crew began around threatened to block a key oil supply route if new u.s. sanctions and its later backed down they also saw a number of missiles tested which were said to be long range russian military says around cannot produce intercontinental ballistic missiles iran is under increasing pressure from western countries which believe it might be developing

a nuclear weapon and your time's correspondent ask about his new sanctions adopted by the u.s. over the top. i can imagine if it was the other way around if these sanctions were against american exports of oil or if this was 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 and 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 twenty any one months 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 china or with countries in south america or essential oil or for that matter. what the editor of the colbert report current affairs website says further pressure about the u.s. and its allies on iran push the beach into the age. 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 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 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 always keen to know your take on the story today we're asking what you believe new sanctions on iran that will bring almost half of you think iran will be pushed to desperation sanctions regarded as an act of war. over portugal and when that is when one changes the rest are even split between whether the new measures will punish the very people that are better than this or that oil prices will soar as a result it's quite frankly the world's already shaky financial situation where you can cast your vote i don't see dot com. the u.s. presidential campaign is now on the way and then they start with the first contest to determine a single republican nominee having taken place in the state of iowa they all

ballots are counted just a few votes separate the front runners social conservative groups and home and only massachusetts governor mitt romney third place is antiwar advocate long i was polls on largely seen essential to the nomination of a spine weeding out candidates mention the happening. against democrat president barack obama and the members of the action former congressional aide and diplomat told ruben he's it's one paul who stands out from the rest but is on lucky 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 conflicts and their national affairs in some areas that can be good he's opposed to military action with the ron who are supposed to be iraq war but the other candidates are all extremely hawkish on foreign policy very conservative

and ron paul does stand out amongst them he makes voters want to support spars leading the party and getting other republicans on board to really. know he hasn't done that someone who says i am a free american and i can make it on my own and that's what ron paul really embodies but republicans also understand that kind of positioning will not win the general election against president obama. but meanwhile things aren't looking too good for president obama either i've been elected on a wave of hope four years ago he now faces a drop in popularity among disillusioned democrats their point not the polls. three years ago one historic campaign turned u.s. politics into a pop culture phenomenon in. the world the 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 a way each straight from a straight has been donated to a movement that became a phenomenon in two thousand and eleven other about twenty people holding up david mfundo organize 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 you know like 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 in 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 you get the beers you get the newness is. 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 the 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're in trouble when the

hollywood a listers start turning their backs are you happy with the way that obama has been running the country. now and i think i really think he misinterpreted his. his mandate yet 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 eight he was the honest saleable candidate of choice this time mr obama is likely to stay in my default. artsy new york. but i still ahead for you this hour the secret recipe for success making it big in business in the us we highlight two experts one

for serving up to this is streets and profits russia's top and bakery sector. also two families two children and one almighty makes up this story is one of confusion and heartache and the most amazing friendship that's ahead. the third and final stage of egypt's parliamentary election resumes on wednesday the country's leading islamist party is expected to dominate where there's a few days the vote comes amid continuing political tensions with the military do this charge since it hasn't barrack was toppled nearly a year they're being accused of going on to power last month the previous round of voting was overshadowed by violent clashes between protesters and the army on the raids on western sponsored anglos last month also added to the sense of instability in the east experts time county says that it wanted to stabilize the military has

to give its people what we want and step down. large majority of egyptians want the military to be a defense outfit defending the country against out so checkpoint prevention and not play a political role at all because for the last thirty to forty years egypt has essentially whether under mubarak or under some dark beano multi to indicate to ship run by the miller crean people want an end to that so when the military want to serve more barak on trial again it's an attempt to divert attention from its own rule in the concrete that is what is really worrying people and that is or should be discussed and attacking the g.o.p. and jim carrey is is i think to show that foreign buyers are manipulating. create sector which is again nonsense i think washington has

a great deal of influence within the egyptian military after all it billions of dollars i mean they're going to billion dollars a year that's a huge amount of money. well meanwhile the arab league wants an emergency meeting on whether to withdraw its observers from syria where violence between the army and anti-government protesters continues in about twenty minutes time in middle eastern politics expert dr jimmy song says the tunnel vision when it comes to deciding just who is doing the killing here's what's ahead for you. in that report. the human rights council reports four thousand but there is no explanation of that figure where they go. a few days later. who's the u.n. human rights commissioner she stood up the security council and said five thousand and the figure echoes around the world and i think it lodges in the popular imagination is five thousand people being killed by the syrian government security

forces by the military 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 but this so what we actually need to do is to aggregate these figures. curbing gang of violence is now one of the top priorities for britain's leaders but for some the efforts will be in vain unless the government tackles an underlying cultural fear as or smith reports now from london. the dark underbelly of life in britain's inner cities 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. to. be angry over the top. name 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 it lies in the shadow of london's two thousand and twelve olympic park but it's also got more guying 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 are 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 if you don't understand. you have to have you. know in a bar. in london and the neighbor. and the neighbor. to government really knew and understood would be happenin. when gavin met sheldon thomas an x 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 riots firmly at the door of gangs their solution the carrot and stick method are if you found some excellent police work to identify and manage the highest risk going members through

a combination of targeted surveillance enforcement and arrest for any 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 it every turn what they do. the manifestation of gangs gun violence. gang rape drugs that's just a manifestation that the causes of it the cause in stem from family breakdown moles gone out the window from society as a whole 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 nowhere to go but the street nora smith r.t. london. four news comments and analysis is available few around the clock on our website let's look at some of what's lined up right now we picked ten events that shape twenty eleven for you our correspondents first on the council world sports in our testimony series. the night the planet parted. ways bring you the festive mood around well this week actually twenty twelve it's such a doctor. close up to you has been to dagestan birthplace to the most ambitious football club in the world. now r.j.

goes to the far east where the timber industry attracts 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. well come to the bars creature rush. on archy playing. well with. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. well next the latest in our path on the series where expert on the secrets of business success in russia. but one such example is a story in and go on in more than

a decent crust from russia's premium bakery sector they've been running the biggest operation of its kind in moscow for more than four years they give us a taste of what it takes. i am twice a week in the production sector and the rest of the time i mean the restaurant genya. genya here that just to make sure everything is ok definitely in the way when you're starting something new everything is more subtle the industry has existed here we had to do everything from scratch. when we started the business we realized that 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 have many customers here you can help you know. yes and that

customer should be greeted every time every time you are developing a company culture you know one of the most difficult things in russia a few years ago was to make sure your lines that slice this if it's not the interesting culture at the beginning i would say if i come to the restaurant and if you're smiling i really give you a hundred. if you're not. really ever my desire your is away so we've made it again we still but it's still a chat the first quarter we spent in two thousand and six we spent about nine months developing a very small factory we basically had a thirty square meter room where we were trying to make something like fifty product pressure every day and the biggest challenge was the local ingredients it would be insane to import lots of flour to russia when russia was 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 getting 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 a use to it. you need to empty the garbage cans you need to clean up that place what is that car 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 bit 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 do. i would have more ports on for a long trip and getting begin business in russia in our part find the serious threat that we care. what's more the world's news first to south sudan where thousands of use for an ethnic group who attacked a rival community have been repelled by government troops their attack on the town

of. left at least one hundred fifty scores of others forced to leave the violence despite u.n. troops stepping up security and they couldn't prevent the deadly fighting that was sparked by cattle raids. and chile is battling the several massive wildfires with at least one person killed in the blazes efforts to cope with a disaster are being hampered by intense heat and strong winds hundreds of people have been evacuated from the area many homes destroyed chilean authorities recently arrested and later a veiled israeli tourist on suspicion of starting a huge forest fire in a national park. well next to a terrible tangle two goes born at the same time and in the same ward in the russian urals who accidentally swapped and then up with a won't parents. has the story of maternity mistake that took years to be discovered. meet anya she's thirteen years on to muslim and lives with her father

nine in the chalabi town of kut based on the other side of town so thirty nine lives with her russian orthodox mother 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 along the end of several in that moment i was in such a state of shock that i thought it was all a joke sleep in one nine hundred ninety 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 you via insistent upon her innocence had the family take not one but two d.n.a. tests the results show 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 one was 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. to this with told me they switched 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 nine reluctantly phoned yuliya 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 as we used to be the first time i used the girls to each other we came to visit we took pictures walked around and ate ice cream role modeling just had told me that when i went was my biological father in the beginning i didn't believe it but my mother said it's true i'm not lying. irina ananya now close friends decided to remain with the parents who raise them but the inconvenience of living in different suburbs makes it much harder for the families

to meet often breaks your heart. i don't think that's the way to live it just 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 why you say more but if there's saying something about me. 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. both are mind of the top stories is coming your way in just a few minutes thanks to statements. to

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shoot first use shooting. welcome back a look now at the headlines for you the u.s. rebuffs terror ons demand not to bring its aircraft carrier back to the persian gulf state will continue its military presence off during the standoff between the two sides is sparking fears of a conflict. u.s. republicans have cast their votes in the first caucus to pick a single presidential nominee two hopefuls leaving home. alone poms in third with his views being blamed for not winning enough support among.