actually possesses nuclear weapons it's not about that that's the course by life but the reason for this continued conflict is because the american administration simply can't live with an iran which has as much regional power as it has at the moment you see the americans when they look at the iranian regime they see its links with syria they see it links with hamas they see its links with hezbollah and this is a challenge to american power in an absolutely critical economically critical geopolitically critical area of the globe and it's that which is the sticking point for the american ministration in my view there are some people hawks in israel hawks in the united states who want to settle this militarily and it does seem to me that once we begin on the process of implementing sanctions of iran responding to the sanctions that there will be calls further down the road for direct military conflict and that in this case is even more dangerous than it was in the case of iraq. thoughts to from here girl lump of a political science professor from paris west university told me that by isolating

iran western leaders are trying to improve their political standing in things ignoring the economic dangers that it spells. from an economic point of view it is not wise but you know prim and political point of view this is grandstanding and political. coming from leaders who are facing elections obama in the us and obama has to care very tough on iran because it is accused by the republicans are being soft on iran and so cozy who is quite discredited in crans is trying to score a success so trying to bash iran something good for political reasons for this readers on the domestic stage it can only of course if oil prices continue to raise it would be very bad for the entire global economy i think the sanctions are likely to affect european countries as well and in fact i read that mario drag is asking for a delay for it to live because he ran owes it to live lot of money so maybe the sanctions

are not going to happen in the way they were announced today but it would be very bad for europe in your column is no doubt it would also have an impact on the rand but iran has other possibilities the most obvious one is of course selling to china . we'd love to hear your opinions on this story head to the forum section of our website r t dot com to get involved this is some of the thought she'd been setting yourself but what you think's going to happen in the region. one if you are saying that will still in a financial crisis which george bush and tony leave us with may be russia and china will throw their weight forward to stop an attack on iran another opinion around will not dare to hump oil exports and start a war in the middle east simply because it would be razed to the ground europe and america could easily impose any sanctions on iran for the good of all people on earth one more view point is that we should quote just hope that at least one side of this conflict will be sensible to push the other towards an all out which old

mother demeans nuclear war the us is playing with fire putting pressure on iran go to form section of r.t. dot com to see more opinions and also of course of yourself. coming up for the program with me kevin our internet shifting priorities at the pentagon. the u.s. on bail see its new military strategy ground war as they are now seen as part and the new kind of warfare is indoors i'll tell you more about it as i come back in just a few minutes. right now though prosecutors in the trial of ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak of called for death by hanging for him and his closest associates they justified their request by arguing that mubarak was personally responsible for every protest to death during the country's revolution the eighty three year olds currently suffering severe health problems international relations expert professor mark colvin told me honey mubarak would only bring harm to the region.

christian. structures. will come to our present state or perhaps. one of the tibetans churches. to be sure. and certain wider group who will serve the doctor who. wouldn't bark and students can sue hire and. fire and say no current resigning was marie priest. marinara her serene track record combined expected here or are. we going to hatch. and. so about the poor sound quality on the show but of interview there earlier on more thought radio host and author stephen leatherman said he believes that the trials merely a diversion from the continuing unrest in the country this is

a distraction this is to divert the public aid iran has three it's legitimate a year but i believe being the interstate mubarak for several days in their own trade will result of cells in the process taking things a worse know one of the military and in no also the people running the country the same ones closely allied with novara what you say is sane people because all the grievances of the people are objecting to but i think the protests over the war and the people will be full the violence will continue is this struggle has a long way to go. meanwhile in syria over five hundred fifty prisoners involved in the anti regime uprising there have been released according to state t.v. it comes as arab league officials say the governments pulled out heavy weapons and tanks from civilian areas that something activists had previously said was untrue

opposition groups also accused the massacres of misleading the league's observers by taking them to areas that were loyal to the government as pressure builds on syrian authorities the country's foreign ministry slammed the u.s. for interfering that's after washington sent an envoy to the arab league for talks about the latest developments beirut based political analysts and journalists roman new xabi says the league observers run the heavy western pressure. the arab observers that have been. sent to syria from the arab league in cairo have been working for the past week and additional numbers of observers entering syria they are under a lot of pressure apparently american pressure there are pressures by some arab countries that are pro-american on the observers to actually affect the way they will draft their reports these observers the syrian officials have been given the order service access to all locations in syria today the observations are visiting

the prison in that. they have access to police stations they have access to different localities in the different neighborhoods where there was a lot of tension now let's hope that they will let this commission do its job independently and will make the truth come out and the truth i think is that there are. gunmen shooting at the army there are some groups of gunmen who are creating chaos in syria and now they are profiting from. the movement it's such a big shame that some western powers and some fallen intervention in syria and affairs is using these people and using the demands of these people to reach political objectives and that's a very destructive move on the part of the united states and its allies in the region. and later herself we're looking at post gadhafi libya the leader of the

m.t.c. claiming to the country could be on the brink of civil war calling for immediate crackdown on. thousands remain behind bars over the previous political allegiances got more on that plus. this region's forests some of the world's rarest big cats but they also host temples and illegal hunters to make a great profit reporting on how some of the world's most. before predators of being preyed upon themselves and rushes far east. barack obama has announced a new road map for the u.s. military with an emphasis on making the military leaner and cheaper the plan calls on the armed forces to abandon their ability to fight to cymbalta in the us land wars and reshift focus instead to surrounding and containing china and iran listen across to a washington correspondent gunny she cam is there. can you flesh out this for us

what exactly are these changes proposed and what's going to mean both for the u.s. and for the rest of the world. well essentially as outlined by both the president and defense secretary the new strategy is to move away from ground wars from long term stability operations to mobile wars where the u.s. can as we don't put out a put it shift and deploy forces to fight any enemy anywhere they said they're going to invest heavily in new capabilities seen drones in space technology is to give the u.s. military this whole new shape which is the defense secretary said would be nothing like the cold war or the post cold war military meaning they're moving away from ground wars told words from air wars toward the intelligence war so to speak the u.s. has pull troops out of iraq would still leave thousands of contractors behind president obama said it was draw all day for u.s. forces in afghanistan which is due in twenty fourteen but winding down the decade of being conclusive wars in iraq and afghanistan won't necessarily mean less wars

but rather the wars of a different shape shape that was outlined to us this morning the u.s. is already fighting this new kind of warfare on multiple fronts in different countries with the use of air force with the use of drones levy as one example the whole country was destroyed mainly from air pakistan is another example not not a successful one though people in pakistan are infuriated by u.s. strikes which end up killing many civilians and as it happened recently their own pakistani soldiers although washington said the strike was a tragic mistake the u.s. will have to do a lot of damage control work to help the pakistani leadership overcome the humiliation so although the u.s. administration looks at the old strategy of ground wars is passe and irrelevant in this day and age yet it's not clear what results the new strategy will bring guns richard. thanks for giving us the dittos that appreciated. it. marking one of the

lowest moments is the own set of europe's debt crisis more than two years ago the greek government is now publicly threatened to abandon the euro the warnings came from the prime minister lucas papademos as negotiations over a one hundred thirty billion euro bailout package dragged on here and warned that the greek economy could enter an uncontrolled collapse as early as march if more cash isn't secured creditors and greeks are at loggerheads with bankers refusing to write off any more debt while the union say they won't make any more austerity cuts the hope that our is that a fiscal union will act as a last line of defense against the debt crisis but that's something that leading economist aereo claim is little faith in my system it is that this europe will not be able to form such a political union there is to march in eighty countries to different. countries or to return to their own so often to the they have different styles they have a hard time working together on international issues think of iraq the union in

europe is not all that strong. is forced if you walk around brussels you if you like european union is for real but as soon as you are away from brussels and walk around in the country the rest of europe you see the brossel is far away from from them. and it's not reality the people we live with. just a few the thoughts of mcconnell history of clamor spoke to us we got a full interview coming your way in fifteen minutes time tonight and with the e.u. mired in its debt debacle you might think that germany which been bankrolling the block survival effort would be most concerned but among many people there the river a different priorities these days can offer a ports next on an interesting phenomenon the rise of the country's pirate party. 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 be talking about. 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 of. the firefighters in a different one of the 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 we'll 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 port authority managed to win nearly nine percent of the vote securing fifteen seats most people who they say are just something something fresh and 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 one 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 an go in miracles federal coalition porter is the first to feel the change of heart from voters that actually lost that along with another four local votes across the country a mainstream politics is also losing attractiveness because. there's often too little distinction or distinct difference between different parties from different

fields or areas sometimes between different call to tell the difference between conservative and social democrat experts see the pointed parties key success to use the internet and see it as the new driving force changing politics similar to the we it was influenced by t.v. over half a century ago so unless the mainstream parties adapt and change their tactics it minami to long before they could find themselves on the margins you get this kind of. germany. from europe's financial troubles has now created an unholy row with the british government and the archbishop of come to brain or engage in a bitter spat over banking greed that exchange was missed by cause report coming next hour on this channel. 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 the

first pierpoint nor green he says oh poppycock this is not. bishop i think a lot of tests 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. look down take the one across science that is frank frank and face reality ok your entire cities being burned down by terrorist bankers and out there in the car with cameras rubbing uglies when you should be doing something productive. more later the head of libya's transitional government admitted the country could be sliding into civil war he says it's a lie clear come unless the n.t.s.c. manages to take control over militias and to disarm them this follows

a recent skirmish between armed groups in tripoli streets that left four dead meantime the country's justice system remains a source of concern with thousands remaining behind bars without ever being charged on a boy to reports for r.t. . in the 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 if 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 with 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 all and now equal

before the law or rather before the absence of it they are mostly in prison was triple is top detention facility under gadhafi notorious for its mistreatment and arbitrary killings of inmates but while all of its prisoners rest south free in late august as the rebels are in the capital dozens possibly even hundreds of makeshift prisons sprang up around the country according to u.n. estimates up to seven thousand allowed to get out the loyalists that being held there is little chance for justice or 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 tugged 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. legal review and rebuilding the justice system the treatment is even more brutal outside tripoli the town of talk about 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 i do hope 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 libya's most famous prisoners 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 country man at least thanks to the limelight he's not running a risk of being executed like his father and many still are kind of artsy tripoli. some of the stories making news around the world tonight a wave of explosions in iraq killed seventy two wounded more than one hundred the deadliest attack was in the country south claiming the lies within forty four shia pilgrims make tom in baghdad a bomb attached to a motorbike went off near a bus station but was followed by three other explosions the violence has raised fears insurgents are stepping up attacks after the u.s. troop pullout last month. former israeli prime minister ehud olmert has been indicted on corruption charges he's accused of taking bribes to promote the

construction of housing projects it dates back to before his term in office although it's already on trial for three and related counts of fraud and breach of trust but denies all the charges. a change of direction next as we continue to explore all corners of russia with our close up series and today we're taking you to the battle screeching in russia's far east it's in fact eight thousand kilometers from here in moscow. just given the scale of it there is on the map well for a long time how about us has been a safe haven for a huge range of rare and remarkable animals including the beautiful siberian tigers but with major industries advancing into this picture perfect coastal region much of the wildlife is now coming under threat tom barton takes up the story. feeding time pollutes the the tiger he was found starving in the forest as

a six month old car 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 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. 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 get along 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 at that of 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 this at the hands of another name that is trees are a new bill resource unlike coal or 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 but not going to go up north but when we tell officials at the so little untouched forest remaining industrialists get very angry they say environmental organizations are trying to shut down their industry 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 bored 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. flutie is all right he has his meals brought to him but his cousins out in the wild could soon run out of places to go from boston. pretty that would be a while there twenty minutes tonight to we're talking sports here on r t the inquest into match tonight in shock three male defeat to newcastle fun of what. not to say about that you know sports policy and that with andrew shortly but to the top stories before that in a couple of minutes time it's now a twenty six now and it's exactly past ten moscow time. all.

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r.g.p. goes to the far east where the timber industry contracts to legendary siberian tigers where the ancient native community loses its way in the modern world. where the country's mineral wealth starts its way across the ocean. comes to the bars screech of russia blows up. now it's not about spilling blood. it's the war of the barricades from one side and fears blockade from the other. invisible. people from the land for twelve years. the conflict that divided serbia into two hostile parts is still not over.

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live from moscow twenty four seven around the world to seize our top stories tonight the e.u. says it's agreed in principle women who go on a rainy normal exports driving up fears of a spike in oil prices a troubled global economy. gyptian prosecutors to death by hanging for eighty three year old former president hosni mubarak ousted from power by public protests last year it's already been seen as midterm public attention from criticism of the country's interest by the truth. and syrian authorities announced they freed over five hundred fifty political prisoners and have withdrawn security forces from

residential areas as part of the arab league peace class but opposition activists continue to claim ration concessions. now but the struggling eurozone in our interview economist audio claim it discusses the e.u.'s debt spiral and explains what twenty twelve might bring for the ailing block. well today we're joined by are you an economist author and professor at the erasmus university in rotterdam thanks very much 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 done we have the euro exists and there is a crisis can a political union save the euro at this point given the circumstances that it's in ideally. you could say.