or against american exports of oil or if this sinks is 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 this thing is how you're going to implemented and who's going to respect that being with your opinions like you know the french foreign ministry pathetically is saying 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 trainee and in one month 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. the editor of the corbett report current affairs website says that by trying to slap more sanctions on iran the u.s. and e.u. are only stirring up dangerous tension in the region. i think it's quite remarkable to think that france and the u.s. 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 erodes iran is developing nuclear weapons as as france has basically put it it's quite remarkable because it 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. we're going to share your take on this developing story go to our web site and tell us what you think of new sanctions on iran to sell the numbers so far half of those who responded say brand will be pushed to desperation saying new sanctions as an act of war nineteen percent think the world economy will suffer as sanctions drive oil prices sky work which we're already singing nearly as many as seventeen percent believe the u.s. national simply won't work and fourteen percent say iranian people not the government will be most hurt by sanctions jumped the line have your say cast your vote at r.t. dot com. the process of finding a republican candidate to contest the twenty twelve american presidential election officially got underway in the state of iowa the results however were anything but decisive with career politician mitt romney beating his conservative counterpart

rick santorum i just ate a vote just a few points behind the two was libertarian ron paul the only anti-war candidate in this year's lineup even hours before the vote many people were still undecided after a. like an election run up marred by sex scandals a month flinging and tit for tat p.r. but despite all of that former congressional aide and diplomat told rubin believes it's wrong paul who stands out from the wrath. of 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 in their national affairs and some areas that can be good he's opposed to military action with the run who are 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 among 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 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. well as the republican campaign develops democrats are beginning to wonder just how much appeal president obama still has having come to power on a wave of hope four years ago his chances are beginning to look demar with complaints from voters or broken promises and corporate favors driving them away or an important iowa has more. three years ago one historic campaign turned u.s. politics into a pop culture phenomenon and. experience more of 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 straight from a straight has been donated to a movement that became a phenomenon in two thousand and eleven there are twenty people holding out david mulford out 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 music is over to 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 started. 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 perfessor an offer dr cornel west was one of obama's biggest supporters i think he's got the 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 a friendly face of the american empire abroad he's in the process actually of becoming very sadly upon 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. 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 eighty was the unassailable candidate of choice this time mr obama is likely to stay in by default. new york. still ahead for you this hour on our bread

for success we tell the story of two well the ex-pat entrepreneurs who make their way to the top in russia's top ten pastry sector. and how two girls who were born in the same place at the same time were given to the wrong parents because of a life changing mistake. but first egyptians are heading to polling stations once again as the country's first democratic election more than half a century enters its last phase final results are to be announced next week with the muslim brotherhood being the favorites after clinching the lead in the first two stages of the vote last year earlier polls were rounds were overshadowed by clashes between protesters and the army egypt's ruling military generals have been accused of clinging to power and now face anger over their handling of protests that have left fifty nine dead since mid november recent army raise on western sponsored n.g.o.s have added even more concern over the country's stability mideast

expert tariq ali says in order to ease tension the military has to give people what they want and stepped out. the military to be a defense. of the concrete against outside. intervention in mostly a political role that told it goes. the last thirty to forty years egypt has essentially whether on doma barak or i'm just being a moth eaten dictatorship run by the military in people want an end to that so when the miller creek works mobarak 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 his or should be discussed and attacking the g.o.p. and jim k. is is so i think to show that form bars are manipulating of concrete and synchro which is again nonsense i think washington has

a great deal of influence within the gyptian military after all big billions of dollars i mean begin a billion dollars a year that's a huge amount of money. well the rise of islamist parties in egypt has prompted western concerns for the policies the country may adopt if the likes of the muslim brotherhood step in to power we caught up with regional politics expert dr germ he sought his outlook on the developments in the arab world are coming up later this hour in our interview program. in the middle east and the policies the western governments of followed since the beginning of this year they have always had a noble mostly we're doing this for this very very good reason but we don't have to be terribly skeptical or cynical to understand that actually behind the noble motives is self-interest if we look at what happened in egypt the west backed mubarak right to the very last and there was no longer possible to back him when it

was indefensible they dumped him. it's seen as one of the biggest blights on modern british society tackling gang violence is proving difficult with the government seeing a firm response as the only means of dealing with it there's growing criticism though that the attempts to improve the situation are not addressing the root of the problem marches more smith explains. it is. six years old. and often also a piece of. the dark underbelly of life in britain is in a city 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 seen the strings also as a young. disposal to. study and he was

a learned behavior to an extent and i was really not in need. to be angry but i would go over the top. of the good name for the disguise. crazy. people. at his lowest ebb gavin admits to having stopped and his story isn't unusual in deprived areas no where is the question of how to solve the gang problem in london more relevant than 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're more than half of the kids are living below the poverty line and they don't feel the government doing anything to help them how can you hold me. you have to have.

a government really understood. when gap in met sheldon thomas an x gangsta himself he turned a corner and then 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. 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 at every turn what they do is they look at the manifestation of gangs gun violence. gang rape drugs to decay that's just a manifestation of the causes of it causing stem from family breakdown moles on 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 norris myth r.t.

london. well more on all the stories we're covering can always be found on our website r.t. dot com here's a look at what's online for you right now we focus on ten events that shaped twenty eleven and bring you our correspondents firsthand account from affording the world hotspot back in our testimony series. and the night the planet party at our picture galleries captured the high spirits from around the world as we are short in twenty two hours all that and much more art you talk about. the close up view has been to the new stuff earth plays 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.

tiger where the ancient native community loses its weight in the modern world place and where the country's mineral wealth starts its way across the ocean. well come to the bars creature rush it blows up on our key. click well. sorry it's technology innovation all the latest developments around russia we've got the future covered. you're watching live from moscow up next for you ex-pat entrepreneurs based in russia tell us their success stories and describe their path to prosperity in the latest from our pathfinder series. today we bring you the story of him and go hard to call unary gurus who beg their

way to a fortune in russia's premium pastry sector for more than four years now they've been running the most successful business of its kind having started from scratch up next they give us a taste of what it takes. twice a week in the production sector and the rest of the time i mean the restaurant genya. genya to be here that's 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. 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 help in the early to this and that customer should be greeted every time every time you are developing a company culture you know that one of the most difficult things in russia a few years ago was to make sure your line staff smile is this if it's not the interrupt your culture 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 asked is that if we really have a my desire your resume so good we've made it again be still but it's still a chance. first of all 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 the. a flower to russia when russia is one of the biggest

flow 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 be used to it. you need to empty the garbage cans you need to clean up that. car from 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 is to build a bakery business in russia was exactly right and 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 be. well we'll have more features on foreign entrepreneurs doing big business in russia in our pathfinder series throughout the week a look now at some other news from around the world this hour

a series of three explosions in the second largest city in afghanistan have killed at least thirteen people including one child the first blast occurred as a suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint two other bombs went off later the violence comes a day after the afghan taliban announced plans to open an internationally is almost this encounter something that could be a step towards formal peace negotiations. thousands of people have taken to the streets in northern peru protesting against the development of a gold mine the demonstrators say waste from the works will taint their water supplies the protests common one of the country's most heavily mined regions there's also had a history of troubled relations with neighboring farmers and ranchers. now to the incredible story of two girls who were born minutes apart in the same ward in the russian urals but were accidentally swapped by a fateful mistake and meant they ended up with the wrong parents karen taraji

reports on how the blunder was only discovered more than a decade later. meet anya she's thirteen years on muslim and lives with her father nine months in the chief town of kut beast on the other side of town so 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 lies on the surface the lonely and simple in that moment i was in such a state of shock that i thought it was all a joke of 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 show that in fact the x. was not the father and both results showed that yulia was not arenas 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 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 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 i got used to girls to each other we came to visit we took pictures walked around and ate ice cream role models later she told me that when i went 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 raise

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 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 say more but 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 tara our t.v. moscow. father back with a recap of our top stories after this short break here in our city.

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happens with such witnesses i got him on my site. one. many objects to keep. shooting her shoes shooting an art. if. you know which brighten. to bounce soon from finest impressions. new friends start on t.v. dot com. the close up team has been to diagnose stunned birthplace to the most ambitious football club in the world.

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you're watching our live from moscow words four thirty pm our top stories the u.s. says its warships will stick to their missions near a crucial oil lane on the gulf persian gulf spike warnings from the wrong to stay away standoff continues to drive up oil prices and tension in. the republican presidential candidate race gets underway in our now spot voters remain in trying to over just try to put forward capitalize on a just solution meant with bronco obama. plus the rise of crime and gang culture among british youngsters from troubled families who say it's their only way of escaping violence at home. now developments in the arab world and north africa have

once again drawn international focus towards its impact on the middle east regional politics expert dr jeremy salt gives archie his outlook for twenty twelve. thank you jeremy for joining us here on a pleasure as well as call put it when it comes to the middle east the west talks only sixty and access to the if it's true if you agree with this what should be done what can be done to prevent syria from folding into these pots and really look at what's been happening in the middle east and the policies the western governments have followed since the beginning of this year they have always had the the noble most you know we're doing this for this very very good reason but we don't have to be terribly skeptical cynical to understand that actually behind the noble motives is self-interest if we look at what happened in egypt the west.