it's three pm here in moscow this is r.t. coming to you live on news now i with our top story this hour they who says it's ready to ban imports a rainy and crude and will consider whether to do so by the end of the month while prices are already witnessing another spike in response to the latest heated exchange between iran and the u.s. over a key trade route in the persian gulf it comes after iran threatened to block the trade channel out to new u.s. sanctions had its exports the latest signed by president obama on monday so iran's currency dropped to a backlog low ali risk a commentator on middle east affairs thinks the sanctions will soon backfire on the west. and the oil prices now have increased this comes at a time where both europe and the year we're witnessing a very very dire economic situation economic problems both in the u.s. and europe and this latest step taken against iran will not only of course said the

president for increasing economic problems for the west in general escalation won't serve any side whatsoever we've seen the the economic situation in europe they'll be somewhat i believe very soon between the french leader and the german chancellor angela merkel to discuss the economic situation and so it's in 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 soil now will that happen in effect will they take this measure in practice just will we'll see a meeting on january the thirtieth for the european union regarding this matter i doubt that that will happen i believe in from now until the end of this month until the end of january we might see some account of a solution with players like turkey coming in trying to bring about a solution but you can always share your take on this developing story go to our web site r.t. dot com to tell us what you. think of new sanctions on iran right now just over

half say you iran will be pushed into a corner and seeing it sanctions as an act of war nearly a fifth believe the us measures simply won't work sixteen percent think the world economy will suffer as sanctions drive oil prices up and the rest fear they will hurt only ordinary iranians tell us what you think vote today at r t dot com. the uniting factor binding libya's former rebels has long gone since the toppling of moammar gadhafi now infighting among their ranks is spilling onto the streets five people have been killed in tripoli as two groups of fighters resorted to guns to resolve their differences meanwhile thousands of libyans remain behind bars waiting for the new rulers to try them for their crime of failing to jump ship or boycott 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 we are releasing those who didn't commit serious crimes those with blood 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 are mostly in prison was triple his top detention facility under gadhafi the tories for its mistreatment and arbitrary killings of animals but while all of its prisoners rest south 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 loyalist that being held there a little chance for justice a fair trial. just a year ago this place used to be a school today the main 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 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 promptly legal review and rebuilding the justice system the treatment is even more brutal outside tripoli the tunnel to where

a good the 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 but you know for their death children need their fathers and women need their husbands the government isn't doing anything to find them if they're dead that we want to know where they are more than a month since his capture his most famous prisoner is still doesn't have access to a lawyer and while many dollars say full islam's ability to have a fair trial he still appears to be better off than many of his countrymen at least thanks to the limelight he's not running

a risk of being executed like his father while many still are. artsy tripoli. well syria has criticized the u.s. for accusing it of not complying with arab league observers. her 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 that are none of its business it's pulled out tanks from streets and has now released over five hundred prisoners under the arab peace plan hundreds of others were freed last month month and based political analyst chris bambery believes america's actions indicate it's gearing up for military intervention. we have had this meeting of the arab league sanctions against syria and the key ally in the sense of prize turkey has been involved in arming the free syrian free syrian army and training them and we nor there are also american advisers in those camps in turkey training and i think when you combine that. together sanctions deploy the diplomatic route but also the involvement with the

free syrian army it begins to create a dynamic where perhaps the americans don't want the woman to be involved in north york gratian in syria become pull in that direction that is a very dangerous dangerous sure as we know from the previous history of the conflict going on in vietnam once you send advisors and trainers into a country it's very often the case that the troops will fall so i think america is in danger of going on a slippery slope. well the next few minutes the foreigners make it big in russia. this is a country economy and a market that's growing at a really really about pace from dentists sinking their teeth into new challenges through to success and specialty shopping our pathfinder serious charges the entrepreneurial opportunities available here. as we head to russia's far east for a close up encounter with wildlife habitat is crumbling around them. but

first there's a nightmare a new year resolution which is giving euro zone leaders a hangover at the start of two thousand and twelve greece's prime minister is threatening to quit the euro more cuts aren't implemented well they're needed to secure a further battle out of one hundred thirty billion euros if it defaults the european banks old billions by greece would lose out and other struggling countries would face more pressure greece's been relying on cash injection since twenty ten talks over a second battle out of stalls for months with creditors demanding an overhaul of greece's economy which many say is ultimately doomed belgian bills business journalists feel over bags thanks the outcome is already set in stone for both the greek government and ourselves. the greek government is realizing that there is actually no option left the greek economy is going down like a stone and i think we're now at the point where everybody in greece 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 prove that they are looking for an alibi to offer to their public by would make it fair well it's not our fault if the international community that pushes the towards the exit of the euro zone and i think also here in europe at the. brussels at quarters of the european commission people start to realize that really is no other way to solve the greek problem by than by an exit from the euro zone. where many years states are still working towards tighter fiscal rules but a european economist tells us next hour why it will slow down decision making just when it needs an energy boost here's what the hat. it is sort of an. idea that i think that the yen to a backfire because if you make central power too much then we will see

a lot of dynamics local flexibility as we've seen already because ever to get these decisions and then take for 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 to complex. when you think that with europe's debt crisis swirling around its biggest bank robber germany that it might be dominating the country's political landscape but instead people there are rounding on the president to quit after he threatened a newspaper against revealing a home loan scandal he's embroiled in and supporters sifting to a new party that has no official stance on the e.u. or its troubles as you corpus going off now reports from berlin. it looks like an ordinary scene at one of the many bars in berlin except there is one thing which

makes this party totally different from all the others the parties they must get out in pattaya and. the pirate part of germany that's right and 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. and the park but it was really different and 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 this crisis maybe you will have after the. next federal convention

but this wasn't a problem at the previous election for the berlin state problem a time when the port authority managed to win nearly ninety percent of the vote securing fifteen seats most people who are. just something the press like because many germans believe that politics are cross to this time as the big players struggle with big economic and political issues the park 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 and actually lost that berlin vote along with another four local votes across the country mainstream politics is also losing attractiveness to. there's often too little distinction or distinctiveness between different parties

from different fields or areas sometimes between difficult to tell the difference between conservative and social democrat experts say the part party's key success tool is the internet and see it as the new driving force changing politics similar to the way it was influenced by a t.v. over half a century ago so unless the mainstream parties adapt and change their tactics it may not be too long before they could find themselves on the margins you're just going to of or d. germany. there is financial problems are dragging britain into an unholy wow with the government squaring up to the church for getting involved it's up for discussion in the kaiser report coming up in about fifteen minutes. the art of canterbury blasted for comparing rioters and bankers as politicians urge them to focus on religion here is how david cameron's government chose to hit back who did they appoint to speak lord green first pierpoint.

green he says oh poppycock this is not the 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 too jolly good look lording done take the one across i'll just have a strange ring and face reality ok your entire cities being burned down by terrorist bankers and out there in the club and with cameras rolling uglies when you should be doing something productive. artie's pathfinders serious puts a new twist now on the changing face of russia literally the demand for decent dentistry soared when the soviet union ended next perhaps robert courtney was among those ready to fill the gap.

just i'm not sure that. 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 in 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 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 on the high street typically you have a smaller office that's owned and managed by the doctor one to five dentists supporting staff and specialists are 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 more 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. tree economy and a market that's growing at a really really rapid pace. look i'm 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 leasing 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 carters and the shops of shopping malls the beautiful stuff takes place at night people restock

remerging diets redesign 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 compare 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's going to be similar to today but down deep you know something's going to be new something's going to change and 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.

well more from the pathfinder series throughout the week for you and they're also online if you missed any here's what else is available right now at our expense dot com a twenty million dollar price tag for a child the saudi businessman puts his own son up for sale on facebook we'll tell you why on our website. plus police in new york rated t.v. studio but only the part used by occupy protesters the reason the creasing only use dangerous conditions quotes are t.v. reports online. i had a family i lived in a fairly nice community it wasn't rich it was an upscale it was just like you know archie bunker's society ok then they started showing up here what happened was my company decided i could get cheap labor and they got rid of.

all the rules of the legal ladies love legally we have to get up every morning we have to go to work and you know we have to pay our bills and we have to do it and it that's just the american dream and if you want the american dream you have to go by the laws i figure it's here's one of the major trails into the united states and . i watch and they run run down my property and something about this noise. was a little mean that cockroaches from coming to the wire is protecting the country i'm the kind of guy who doesn't mindedness pay and sturdy so i come out here you know we're all immigrants as well know that we all hear from some or else. the close up team has been to don't you stop the birthplace to the most ambitious football club in the world. no.

argy goes to the far east where the timber industry attracts the legendary siberian tiger where the native community loses its weight in the modern world. and where the country's mineral wealth starts its way across the ocean. welcome to the bars creature russia blows up on. the world the. science technology innovation and all the latest developments around russia we've got the future covered. wire from moscow around the world now and the spate of deadly explosions have hit cia areas in the iraq incomputable the interior ministry says at least twenty nine people have been killed and dozens of others wounded the first blast involved

a motorcycle bomb that's when office laborers gathered looking for work it was followed by a roadside explosion shortly afterwards a couple of hours later two further blasts hit and northern neighborhood sectarian violence has increased since u.s. troops pulled out last month. an overcrowded boss has plummeted all the snow covered bridge in southern china killing at least eight people dozens more were injured when the bus fell ten metres into the valley below and comes during the busy new year travel period when public transport is at its busiest road safety is a major problem in china with on a poorly maintained road. three separate fires in australia and new zealand have broken out forcing doesn't from their homes and air travel in eastern perth firefighters spent hours containing a place which also affected air travel to the city a brush fire also spread through an island off the coast of queensland which is popular with tourists and had to be evacuated in new zealand residents fall back

another fire with their garden hoses. more from russia close off now as we had a thousand kilometers from moscow to the far east but an area which is far from secure for its wildlife. the coastal region borders china and is also the meeting point of the two mighty rivers the a more and these story which harbored some of the most incredible habitats for wildlife russia but the march of the industrial moguls is putting its future on the line as artie's tom barton discovered. the 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 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 tigers bears deer in fact just about any injured forest animals that arrive at her center as well as poachers it's forestry and 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 loggers licit there was another name of these 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. 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 park which will there are others trying to replace lost forest this local government project harvests and sorts pints. needs grows them into saplings and then plants them but they admit that the planting just isn't keeping pace with the felling but also boy in an ordinary year we can replace looking losses but if there's

a forest fire as well it could take us ten years to catch up we're fighting a losing battle. blue cheese all right he has his meals brought to put his cousins out in the wild could soon run out of places to go to boston. forensic a sort of break here in our town and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories stay with us.

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three thirty pm moscow time these are the headlines on our team boiled rises jump again as the e.u. says it will decide by the end of the month whether to ban to bring in crude imports concern is also mounting over how the measures might ricochet on the west suffering a common means. syria accuses the u.s. of interfering over the arab league observers in this embattled designed to end violence in the country it's after washington sends a mask is not complying with the arab peace plan and but it's sending an envoy for talks with the root.