and london's ruth say they have nowhere to turn but the streets. around the world and around the clock this is r.t. the u.s. says it's warships will continue their missions in the persian gulf a response to iran's warning to keep the aircraft carriers well away from its waters tensions rose as the u.s.s. john stennis passed through an area where iran was holding ten days of naval wargames when the drill began around threaten to block a key oil supply route if new u.s. sanctions hit its exports but back down the drill also saw a number of missiles tested which are said to be long range the russian military says iran cannot produce intercontinental ballistic missiles around is pressure from western countries which believe it might be developing

a nuclear weapon if the times correspondent i ask about says new sanctions adopted by the u.s. are 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 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 dissing is how you're going to implemented and who's going to respect that being with europeans 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 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 china or with countries in south america are essential for that matter when the editor of the colbert report current affairs website says further pressure by the u.s. and its allies on iran could 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 return on 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 stance oblique 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. we're keen to know your take on the story today we're asking what you believe new sanctions on iran will actually bring on the ground push to desperation with sanctions regarded as an act of war what i want to believe professionals will bring no changes the rest even in between the new measures will punish the right sort of them leaders whether all prices will soar as a result striking a blow to the world's shaky financial situation when it comes to that or to talk to . the u.s. presidential campaign is now underway in earnest the first contest to determine a single republican nominee having taken place in the state of iowa and

a tight finish for massachusetts governor mitt romney won the caucuses by just eight votes now edging out social conservative rick santorum in a third place. while all i was opposed on largely seen as setting the tone for the nomination finding out candidates attention republican against democrat president barack obama in november election former congressional aide and diplomat told ruben in the news it's wrong paul 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 conflicts of international affairs in some areas that can be good he's opposed to military action with the rod who was supposed to be iraq war but the other candidates are all extremely hawkish on foreign policy very neo conservative and ron paul does stand out amongst them he makes voters want to

support him but inspires leading the party and getting other republicans on board to really change the agenda no he hasn't done that is 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. i mean while things are not looking too good for president obama either i mean elected on a wave of hope four years ago he now faces a drop in popularity among disillusioned democrats and made a point no one has been finding out. three years ago one historic campaign turned u.s. politics into a pop culture phenomenon. playing for 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 no way each strayed from a cherished right has been donated to the movement that became a phenomenon in two thousand and eleven other than twenty people holding out david moved 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 up 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 in 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 you 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 you get the beers you get the newness he's. at the freshness taking part in more than one hundred campaign events but last april the prominent intellectual told see 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 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. you know. and i think i really think he misinterpreted his. 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 by default. new york was ahead this hour the secret recipe for success making it big in business in russia. ex-pats. serving up

delicious treats and profits russia's top ten bakery sector. plus two families two children one on my to mix up their stories of one of confusion take on the most news in friendship. the third and final stage of egypt's parliamentary election resumes on wednesday the country's leading is the most part is expected to dominate the results in a few days the vote comes amid continuing political tensions with the military rulers in charge since president back on top of a year ago being accused of clinging to power last month the previous round ten times and the shadow clashes between protesters and the army on the raids on western sponsored n.g.o.s last week also added to the sense of instability. middle east expert tariq ali says that in order to stabilize egypt literally has to give its people what they want and step down. large majority of egyptians the

military defense outfit defending the country against outside. intervention and not play a political role because for the last thirty to forty. yes egypt has essentially when they were under mubarak or under saddam had been a marked eight hundred eighty two ship run by the middle or crean people want an end to that so when the military. more barak on cry look good it's an attempt to divert attention from its own rule in the concrete that is 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 four hours are manipulating. creates a row 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. but meanwhile the arab league wants an emergency meeting on whether to withdraw its observers from syria the violence between the army and anti-government protesters continues in just over twenty minutes time middle eastern politics expert dr jeremy salt says there's tunnel vision when it comes to deciding just who is doing the killing here's what's ahead. in its report. the human rights council report four thousand but there was no explanation of that where they go now if you know it's later nothing pillai who's the u.n. human rights commissioner he thought up a few security council and said five thousand. well 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 but 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 fact is so what we actually need to do is to aggregate these figures. curbing gang 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 culture of fear as laura smith reports of london. it is. nothing else the picture of. 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.

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 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 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 a. i don't think they know it looks like. you were around no in a bar of the house in london and the neighborhood bar was good. and the neighborhood. in london. i was there 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 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 rennie 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. the manifestation of gangs gun violence and. gang rape. that's just a manifestation of the causes of it. from 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 nowhere to go but

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with. its technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. next the latest in our pathfinder series where ex-pat entrepreneurs say the secrets of business success in russia.

just one such example is a story in and go. more than a decent crossed from russia's premium bakery sector may be running the biggest operation of its kind in moscow for more than two years max 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. getting out of here that's. just to make sure everything is ok definitely in the way when you are starting something new everything is. 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 high quality bakery hardly exist in russia today you don't get many customers here you can help in only to this 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 smile is just smile if it's not the. at the beginning i would say if i come to the restaurant and if you're smiling i will give you a hundred. if you're not. really my desire your resume so it could give me a gauge still but it's still a chat the first quarter 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 have a hard time. 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 high over on the other hand if we see your heart. in other cultures that may be a little more difficult the idea is to build a bakery business in russia was exactly right and the idea that the competition wasn't so high in the 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 products ourselves and then we would be even more successful than we are today i think but yes i absolutely do. and i will have more ports on foreign entrepreneurs getting big business in russia and i passed on the series throughout the week.

more of the world's news this hour first to south sudan where thousands of useful an ethnic group who attacked a rival community have been repelled by government troops their attack on a ton of people reported left at least one hundred fifty dead with scores of others host to flee the violence despite u.n. troops stepping up security in the area could prevent deadly fighting that was sparked by cattle raids. she is battling several massive wildfires with at least one person killed in the blazes efforts to cope with a disaster 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 bailed an israeli tourist on suspicion of starting a huge forest. or next to a terrible time go two girls born at the same time and in the same ward in the

russian urals accidently swapped ending up with the wrong parents tease her agin has the 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 months in the chalabi town of kut based on the other side of town also thirteen lives with her russian orthodox mother yulia despite their differences in religion and culture they are recent friends sharing the same birthdays and ties that bind them deeper than what laws on the surface thought long and simple in that moment i was in such a state of shock that i thought it was all a joke sleep 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 show that in fact the ex was not the father and both results

showed that yulia was not arenas mother but that a good one was my first thought was that irina doesn't find out and the second was where is my biological child to bring them 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. 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 nine 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 of us and we used to be the first time we got used to girls to each other we came to his we took pictures walked around and ate ice cream later she told me that what i meant was my biological father in the beginning i didn't believe it but my mother said it's true i'm not flying. 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 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. raising without makeup main stories for you in just a few minutes to get away.

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immigrants as well that we all do some somewhere else. welcome back a look at the main stories we've been covering for you this hour the u.s. rebuffs tehran's demand not to bring its aircraft carrier back to the persian gulf saying look into. it's victory presents off the radio host the standoff between the two sides is sparking fears of a new military conflict. u.s. republicans have cast their votes in the first caucus to pick a single presidential nominee the former massachusetts governor mitt romney winning winning in our own poll came in third place on t.v. .