the economic situation in europe there will be i somewhat i believe very soon between the french leader and the german chancellor angela merkel to discuss the economic situation and so we see nobody's interest to continue with this and i have to head back to the negotiating table the european union has agreed in principle i repeat in principle for not for an embargo on iranian oil now will that happen in effect will they take this measure in practice june will see a meeting on january the thirtieth for the european union regarding this matter i doubt that that will happen on i believe from now until the end of this month until the end of january we might see some kind of a solution with players like turkey coming in trying to bring about a solution but you can always your views on this developing story just go to our website tell us what we think of new sanctions on iran at this hour just over half say iran and pushed into a corner and see new sanctions as an act of war two percent the u.s. simply won't work and the rest of the so far split between saying the world economy

will suffer and sanctions on prices upwards and then see think then there will be rain and tell us what you think at r.t. dot com. the uniting of fact binding libya's former rebels has long gone since the toppling of the market now infighting among their ranks is spilling into the streets five people have been killed in tripoli as two groups of fighters resorted to guns to resolve their differences with thousands of libyans remain behind bars waiting for the new rulers to try them for their crime of failing to jump ship looks on a boy to reports. it was one of the first amnesty of the new libya hundreds of men and women many of them sub-saharan immigrants released from a makeshift prison most of them spent several months in captivity for the crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. you know as we are releasing those who

didn't commit serious crimes there's been no one on their hands will be waiting for the prosecutor's decision when you have the richest were eager to pain the release as a goodwill gesture both the detention and the parole seemed entirely arbitrary some of the dictators supporters as these people to be just work for government agencies and others happen to be domestic helpers or government workers and now equal before the law rather before the absence of it they obviously in prison was triple his top a detention facility under gadhafi notorious for its mistreatment and arbitrary killings of inmates but while all of its prisoners rest sat free in late august as the rebels over in the capital dozens possibly even hundreds of makeshift prisons sprang out around the country according to u.n. estimates up to seven thousand allowed to get out there loyalists that being held there a little chance for justice of fair trial just

a year ago the place used to be a school today demain last i'm being told here is that during the transition to democracy quick reactions are a must while many in the new libyan government held positions of power under gadhafi those who failed to jump on the bandwagon early enough and now finding themselves tug behind bars. now in libya there are about a thousand people in detention and the problem is they haven't had any legal review they haven't had access to a lawyer they haven't been brought before any independent judicial panel or judges so that's what we're calling for now is a quick and promise. legal review and rebuilding the justice system the treatment is even more brutal outside tripoli the turn now to where a good that gadhafi forces used to launch attacks against misrata is still a ghost town many of its former residents live in refugee camps and even their extraordinary renditions by militia are common this man says he was tortured for

several days before finally being released. to you until you confess to things you haven't committed like entering homes or looting it's a grueling dilemma many of these mothers and wives have to confront to pray for their loved ones to be rotting in a prison with torture being officially acknowledged and you hope for their death children need their father there isn't what we need there have been the government isn't doing anything to find them if they're dead we want to know where they are more than a month since his capture the most prisoners still doesn't have access to a lawyer and while many dollars the full islams ability to have a fair trial he still appears to be better off than many of his country man at least thanks to the limelight he's not running a risk of being executed like his father while many still are kind of artsy tripoli . where syria has criticized the u.s. for accusing it of not complying with the arab league observer mission washington

is sending an envoy to cairo for talks with the league about the latest developments syria's foreign ministry says the u.s. is interfering in affairs of its business is pulled out heavy weapons and critics from cities after pressure from the arab league which says security forces are still killing civilian protesters london based quizzical analyst chris bambery things america's actions indicate it's gearing up for military intervention. in the arab league sanctions against syria and the key are in the sense of prize turkey has been involved in arming the free syrian free syrian army and training them and we know there are also american advisors in the. camps it's ok training and i think when you combine. together sanctions deployed diplomatically but also the involvement with the free syrian army it begins to create a dynamic where perhaps the americans don't want woman to be involved in no shop aeration in syria became poor in that direction that is

a very dangerous dangerous road as we know from previous history of conflict going on in vietnam once you send advisors and trainers into a country it's very often the case that troops will fall so i think america is in danger of slippery sought. now the next few minutes the foreigners making it big in russia. this is a country economy and a market that's growing at a really really rapid pace dentists sinking into the challenges to success in speciality shopping our path by the series. of opportunities. also we head to russia's far east or a place up in terms of wildlife habitat is crumbling around them. now there's a nightmare new year resolution which is giving us there is a hangover at the start of twenty twelve greece's prime minister is threatening to quit the euro if more cuts implemented and needed to secure

a further bailout of one hundred thirty billion euros if it defaults the european banks billions by greece would lose out of a struggling countries would place more pressure greece has been relying on international conference action since twenty ten talks over the second bailout have stalled months creditors divided over greece as a colony which many say is ultimately doomed belgian business journalist one hundred van overtveldt the outcome is already set in stone for both the greek government and brussels. greek government is realizing that there is likely no option left the greek economy is going down like a storm and out. think we're now at the point where everybody realizes that we cannot go on like this and that unrest even on a key in the country is becoming so much of a threat that some drastic things need to be done and my reading of what the greek government is doing is that they are trying to say that they are looking for an

alibi to offer to their public by which they can say well it's not our fault if the international community that pushes this to work the exit of the euro zone and i think also here in europe at the brussels that quarters of the european commission people start to realize that there really is no other way to solve the greek problem by than by an exit from the euro zone so many states are still working together towards a tighter for school rules but a european economist tells us later in the program why it will slow down the system making just what it needs an energy boost is what's ahead. it is children. an idea that i think that the yen to a backfire because if you make central power too much then what we will see is a lack of dynamics local flexibility as we've seen already because dick's ever to get these decisions ever to go through all these different parliaments even longer

than to implement that i mean that we talk about the long lags. and so it just makes the politics too complex. i think that way europe's debt crisis swirling around its biggest bank will germany that it might be dominating the country's political landscape instead people there are rounding on the president to quit after he threatened a newspaper against building a home the scandal he's embroiled in and support is shifting to a new party that has no official stance on the e.u. or its troubles and the group is going off reports now from berlin. it looks like an ordinary scene at one of the many bars in berlin except there's one thing which makes this party totally different from all the others the parties they must get out and. the pirate party germany that's right this is an annual meeting of

a political party and all these people are alone it's eighteen thousand members across germany like me treat was tired of the mainstream and i was really disappointed in. all this the same way. the faces of. the firefighters are different one of its key differences apart from the style in general is a software system called liquid feedback allowing ordinary germans the opportunity to propose policies online the pirate stand for more transparency and freedom on the internet but when it comes to core issues like the economy and we don't have currently a stand on this crisis maybe you will have after the next federal convention but this wasn't a problem of the previous election for the berlin state problem a time when the poor party managed to win nearly ninety percent of the vote securing fifteen seats most people who they say are just something something fresh

to me like because many germans believe that politics are cross to this time as the big players struggle with big economic and political issues but part party doesn't even have an official stance on the eurozone crisis or the arab spring nevertheless it continues gathering more supporters i mean a coincidence or an alarming signal stream politicians the free democrats party which is anger merkel's federal coalition porter is the first to feel the change of heart from voters that actually last. along with another four local votes across the country are mainstream politics it's also losing attractiveness because. there's often too little distinction or distinct difference between different parties from different fields or areas sometimes between difficult to tell the difference between conservative and social democrat experts see the pointed parties success to use the internet as the new driving force changing politics similar to

the we was influenced by t.v. over half a century ago so unless the mainstream parties adapt and change their tactics. long before they could find themselves on the margins this kind of. germany but europe's financial problems are dragging britain into an unholy round with the government squaring up the church getting involved in something discussion in the kaiser reports that in thirty g.m.t. . the archbishop of canterbury blasted for comparing rioters and bankers as politicians urged him to focus on religion here is how david cameron's government chose to hit back who did they appoint to speak lord green a first pierpoint nor green he says oh poppycock this is not. bishop i think a lot has changed since two thousand and they actually and i think there has been

a lot of soul searching in the financial services industry quite rightly to just. look down take the word of her silence that is frank frank and face reality ok your entire study thing burnt down by terrorist bankers you know they're in the club with cameron rubbing uglies when you should be doing something productive. county's policy find the series puts a new twist now on the changing face of russia literally the demand for decent dentistry saunter in the soviet union and that ex-pat was among those ready to fill that gap. just. not sure. there is anything that can quite prepare you for doing business in russia in the early ninety's which is when i first came it

was a very very wild time in the business sense a wild time in the lifestyle sense and it required a great deal of energy and creativity to bring and create a western type of business here in russia the idea was actually a no brainer executing the idea was very very difficult there was a great deal of demand for dentistry i decided to stay and start the first american dental clinic in russia if we take us dental care and the dentistry business for example you're looking at one difference i'm not a doctor but on the principal owner of the business this business has thirteen practitioners all specialties from hygiene to the general dentistry to implants orthodontics that's very rare to find in a place in the us or in london in the high street typically you have a smaller office that's owned and managed by the doctor one to five dentists

boarding staff and specialist sort generally organized separately doctors refer patients to each other here our place is not so unique for russia you tend to have specialists and generalists collected in one clinic under one roof starting a business here today is both easier and more difficult that what than it was in the past licensure in compliance with the rules was technically very difficult because things were less organized and enforcement was loose in those days it was possible to let's say not comply with everything and still get along today the rules or more modern or strict but at least if you follow the rules you know what to expect certainly there are a lot of myths about the risks of doing business in russia the risks to the business itself let's say the survival of the business itself or no bigger here than they are elsewhere this is a cunt. economy in a market that's growing at a really really rapid pace. will come just addicted to starting new businesses that

are interesting it was a radical change from being a lawyer to dentistry it's just the nature of my story what you see here tonight is the world of specialty retail these specialty retailers everything that goes on in the corridors of shopping malls not in the in line shops and it's all about creating impulse to purchase which means creating beautiful designs that make interesting and simple products something that people want to stop and buy and enjoy until retail profile brought this business to russia four years ago this type of retail didn't exist right there no shoppers here it's past midnight here in moscow and the reason we're here is that everything people see in the corridors and the shops of shopping malls the beautiful stuff takes place at night people restock remerging diets redesigns and that's what this team is doing now the most difficult thing about setting it up doesn't compare with the story i told you about dentistry because we did it four years ago life and business here was already mature and

civilized so the difficult thing was having to grow the business as quickly as the demand for it is if you compared the business life of somebody like me in san francisco in atlanta or boston you'd find people say that tomorrow is going to be similar to today if you ask me are people like me doing business in russia you say you have a hope that tomorrow is going to be similar to today but down deep you know something's going to be new something's going to change on the one hand the drives you crazy because as humans we crave predictability but on the other hand we're all addicted to the fact that something new is happening all the time. more from the pathfinder series throughout the week there also online if you missed any here's what else is a. right now twenty million dollars price tag per child a saudi businessman puts his own son for sale on facebook twenty one online.

police in new york raided seemed nice to get in the news by people are protesting the recent creasing most dangerous conditions called reports online. this is our time to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we all want that war we free the we hope. to me the american dream is to live in peace and prosperity and freedom and a government under socialism is not a government a free. to. hear least i am very motivated out on

our activists who are willing to fight for what they think is right for themselves back in order. i. believe. we are. properly drowning and i think it's spreading. it's cutting off our. it's making real democracy. all but impossible.

around the world now and a spate of deadly explosions have hit shiite areas in the iraqi capital official figures on the number of dead vary but at least twenty one a thought to being killed the first blasts or motorcycle bomb exploded as labor as it gathered looking for work followed by a nearby roadside bomb shortly afterwards a couple of hours later two further blasts had a northern neighborhood sectarian violence has increased since u.s. troops pulled out last month. overcrowded bus has plummeted

off a snow covered bridge in southern china killing at least eighteen people dozens more were injured when the bus fell ten meters into the valley below and comes during the busy travel period when public transport is at its busiest road safety is a major problem in china with many deaths on its poorly maintained roads. three separate fires in australia and new zealand have broken out forcing thousands from their homes and to travel and east in perth to spend our streets. blaze which also affected their travel to the city of brushfire also spread through an island off the coast of queensland which is popular with tourists and had to be evacuated in new zealand residents fought back another farm with the garden hoses. well more from russia close up now as we head eight thousand kilometers from moscow to the far east but an area which is far from secure for its wildlife.

of the coastal region on the border of china is also the meeting point of two mighty rivers the armor and the series which harbor some of the most amazing have a tatts for wildlife in russia but the march of the industrial moguls is putting its future on the low end as artie's tom barton forms. feeding time pollutes the the tiger he was found starving in the forest as a six month old cub he's now nineteen years old has a pair of platinum false teeth and as a siberian tiger he's one of an increasingly scarce breed in this region's forests a home to some of the world's rarest big cats but they also host the loggers timber mills and illegal hunters who stand to make a great profit here and whose activities have pushed those same leopards and tigers to the brink of extinction. load miller looks after the tigers there's deer in fact

just about any injured forest animals that arrive at her center as well as poachers it's forestry the impact it has on local habitats that concerns her to go. to tigers need a lot of territory to survive there can be a lot together when there's forestry the animals they prey on are scared off and so the tigers have to leave killing it off so what it really comes down to is russia's endless forests being assaulted by the power of industry this new timber factory in the far east eats eight hundred thousand cubic metres of wood a year and it's expanding but they're not concerned by forestry saying they're responsible obvious that there was another name that is trees are a new bill resource unlike coal oil we plant trees to replace the ones we cut down so they'll be plenty for the next generation environmentalists paint a very different picture they say there aren't even reliable records of the rampant

tree cutting and warn that russia's forests aren't as endless as the timber barons think. it is when we tell officials at the so little untouched forests remain vulnerable industrialists get very out of the way they say environmental organizations are trying to shut down their industrial or will there are others trying to replace lost forest this local government project harvests and sorts pine seeds. grows them into saplings and then plants them but they admit that the planting just isn't keeping pace with the felling but also by that in an ordinary year we can replace logging losses but if there's a forest fire as well or it could take us ten years to catch up we're fighting a losing battle. flutie is all right he has his meals drink but his cousins out in the wild could soon run out of places to go from boston. now in just a few minutes back to remind you of our top stories here stating. why

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of this beauty brings death at a speed of more than four hundred kilometers per hour. to step in the time along. now it's not about spilling blood. it's the war of the barricades from one side and fears blockade from the other. invisible border it has cut people from the land for twelve years. the conflict that divided serbia into two hostile parts is still not over. the close up jesus has been to new stuff birthplace to the most ambitious football club in the world. if. not all argee

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. comes to the bottom screecher russia blows up. the world to the true science technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. wealthy british style it's time to. market. it's going to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds a report on our. top stories now while prices jump again the e.u. says it will decide by the end of the month whether to ban iranian crude imports concern is also about to have a how the measures market because quest suffering economies. syria accuses the u.s. of interfering of the arab league. the observer mission that's designed and bought into the country itself to washington said damascus is not complying with our peace plan that it sent an envoy for talks with the. greece wanted to ditch the mirror if it failed to secure a second

a multi-billion dollar international bailout the government says talks with foreign monitors of the next few weeks were also the songwriter that return to the states disastrous to pull. or staying with the euro zone debt spiral as economist explains what twenty twelve might bring for the struggling look. well today we're joined by are you an economist author and professor at the erasmus university in rotterdam thanks very much mr glover for joining us today and the first question is in one thousand nine hundred one you wrote a newspaper article that a monetary union is not sustainable cannot be maintained without a political union well after all that said and we have the euro exists and there is a crisis can that a political union save the euro at this point given the circumstances that it's in ideally. you could say that a political union could be formed stronger fishbowl.