believe it might be developing new campaign asia times correspondent pepe escobar says new sanctions adopted by the u.s. are over the top. can you imagine if it was the other way around if these sanctions were against american exports of oil or if this sinks this or against the china for its assuming china you know main source of. foreign exchange for china will be to export energy it is an act of war this thing is how you're going to implemented and who's going to respect that maybe do europeans like you know the french foreign ministry pathetically is saying you know look we have to curb our imports of your own 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 in central asia for that matter. and the editor of the corbett 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 era 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 an under threat so adding more sanctions to to the mix is is really just a recipe for military disaster i think. we're always keen to know your take on the story today we're asking what you believe new sanctions on iran will bring well just over a half of you think iran will be pushed to desperation with sanctions regarded as an act of war nearly a fifth believes oil prices will soar as a result striking a blow to the world's already shaky financial situation seventeen percent say nothing will change while the rest are concerned that the new measures will punish the iranian people instead of their leaders cast your vote at r.t. dot com. the u.s. presidential campaign is now underway in earnest with the first contest to determine a single republican nominee have taken place in the state of iowa and

a tight finish former massachusetts governor mitt romney won the pocket of eight votes gnarly edging out social conservative rick santorum in third place as anti war advocate ron paul iowa was polls are largely seen as setting the tone for the nomination race as i was reading out candidates the eventual republican nominee will be up against democrat president barack obama in november as election former congressional aide and diplomat told ruben believes it's wrong paul who stands out from the rest but is unlikely to get support enough support i should say 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 international affairs in some areas that can be good he's opposed to military action with the rod who are supposed to be rock war but the other candidates are all extremely hot place on foreign policy very neo

conservatives and ron paul does stand out among the makes voters want to support him but he's far is leading the party and getting other republicans on board to really change the agenda no 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. meanwhile things are not looking too good for president obama either having been a liked on a wave of hope four years ago he now faces a drop in popularity among disillusioned democrats as more important iowa has been finding out. three years ago one historic campaign turned u.s. politics into a pop culture phenomenon and. experience 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 straight from a straight has been donated to the movement that became a phenomenon in two thousand and eleven there are about twenty people holding david move food up 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 is is over to us like that that's the thing that's inspiring you know like that's why i brought the flag pole w. us 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 disenchanted 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 he didn't produce were people wanted him to produce in two thousand and eight perfessor an offer dr cornel west was one of obama's biggest supporters i think he's good to because you've got the newness he's got 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 too friendly face of the american empire abroad he's in the process actually of becoming very sadly upon 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. 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 unassailable candidate of choice this time mr obama is likely to stay it by default. new york. coming up to ten minutes past the hour

still ahead for you the secret recipe for success in making it big in business involved that's as we highlight two ex-pat entrepreneurs serving up delicious treats and profits and russia's top and bakery sector. and two families two children and one almighty mixed out their story is one of confusion partaking and the most amazing friendship that is straight ahead for you . but first the third and final stage of egypt's parliamentary election has resumed the country's leading islamist party is expected to dominate with the results due in a few days vote comes amid continuing political tensions but the military rulers in charge since president mubarak was toppled nearly a year ago being accused of clinging to power last month the previous round of voting was overshadowed by violent clashes between protesters and the army army

raids on western sponsored n.g.o.s last week and also added to the sense of instability middle east expert elise says that in order to stabilize egypt the military has to give its people what they want and step down. the road majority of the ships the military to be a defensive outfit to say you know the concrete against outside. point eventually and mostly a political. well look at all because for the last thirty to forty years egypt has essentially when they run don't look barak or i'm just being a multi to indicate to share run by the middle or korean people want an end to that so when the miller creek books mobarak on trial again it's an attempt to divert attention from its own rule in the country that is what is really worrying people and that is or should be discussed and checking the. jim carrey is is so i think to

show that form manipulating. create so for which is again nonsense i think washington has a great deal of influence within the military oh after all big be here to be enslaved all that i mean to get a billion dollars a year that's a huge amount of money. 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 next hour middle eastern mideast politics expert dr jarrett dr jeremy solved says there's tunnel vision when it comes to deciding just who is doing the killing here's a look at what's ahead. you need to report. the human rights council report four thousand but there was no information of that where they go now a few days later nothing pillai who is the u.n.

human rights commissioner he threw up a few security council and so forth. and could 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 nose or whatever whereas in fact i don't think is any thought of toll that a large number of military of civilians have been killed by gangs about it but fact is so what we actually need to do is to dis 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 laura smith now reports from london.

the dark underbelly of life. 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. at his lowest ebb gavin admits to having stopped 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. two thousand and twelve olympic park but

it's also more than almost anywhere else. 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 and more than half of 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. 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 as you found some excellent police work to identify and manage the highest risk members through a combination of targeted surveillance enforcement in a restaurant or 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 gangs gang rape. that's just a manifestation of. the cause and stemming from family breakdown moles the window from society as a whole while the government rhetoric sounds encouraging other policies will

undermine both carrot and stick economical stairs he 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. more news comment and analysis is available for you around the clock on our website that's a look at some of what's lined up right now with big ten rounds that shape twenty eleven and bring to our correspondents firsthand account from reporting from the world's hot spots in our testimony series. and the i pad the planet party at our picture galleries bring you the first of mood from around the world as we are served in twenty twelve it's a party dot com. the

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entrepreneur worser the secrets of business success in russia. well one such example of success is the story of him and go harm or earning more than a decent cross from russia's premium bakery sector they've been running the biggest operation of its kind in moscow for more than four years here and 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'm in the restaurant genya. genya be it that still puzzles just to make sure everything is ok definitely in the way when you are starting something new everything is small sets up this 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 of these products i called the bakery hardly exist in russia today you don't have many customers here you can help in the early to yes and that customer should be greeted every time every time you are developing a company called you know it one of the most difficult things in russia a few years ago was to make sure your line staff smile is just smile if it's not the interesting culture at the beginning i would say if i come to the restaurant and if you are smiling i really give you one hundred euro books if you're not going to really have a my desire your is a way so good for me it's a game we still have 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 lots of flour to russia when russia is one of the biggest . 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 carthon there higher on the other hands 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 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 cells and then we would be even more successful than we are today i think but yes i would absolutely do. well i'm more reports on

foreign entrepreneurs getting big in business in russia china or pathfinder series throughout the week. but more of the world's news this hour for you first to south sudan where thousands of you from an ethnic group who attacked a wider community have been repelled by government troops their attack on the town of people reportedly left at least one hundred fifty dad and scores of other forced to flee the violence by u.n. troops stepping up security in the area they couldn't prevent the deadly finding that was sparked by cattle right. to me is battling several massive wildfires with at least one person killed in the blazes efforts to cope with the 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 belled and israeli war itself mission of starting

a huge forest fire in a national park. now a terrible tangle two girls born at the same time and in the same ward in the russian urals who were accidentally swapped and then up with the wrong parents. she 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 month in the chalabi town of kut based on the other side of town also thirteen 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 laws on the surface for long and civil in that moment i was in such a state of shock that i thought it was all a joke slope 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 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 arenas mother beautiful my first thought was that irina doesn't find out and the second was where is my biological child to bring 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 this which my child with another at the hospital they said her biological child was 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 about us and we used to be the first time i got

used to girls to each other we came to his we took pictures walked around and ate ice cream romagnoli to she told me there's nine when it 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 it breaks your heart one day back more so i don't think that's a way to live it doesn't add still 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're saying what if they're 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. moscow.

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here with r t live from moscow our top stories the u.s. revolves tehran's demands not to bring its aircraft carrier back to the persian gulf saying it will continue its military presence off the ring in coast stand off between the two sides is sparking fears of a looming military conflict. u.s. republicans have cast their vote in the first caucus to pick a single presidential nominee with former massachusetts governor mitt romney narrowly winning in iowa ron paul came in third with his antiwar views being blamed for not winning over and not party members. and curbing gang violence is now one of the top priorities for britain's leaders but analysts say the root causes need

tackling first with deep seated poverty and abusive families drawing teens into street crime. next we take a look at august kuku the event that shaped russian history twenty years ago peter the veil and his gas mask now if the soviet union had any chance of survival after such a blow. and it. will open a welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the.