this isn't just about nuclear weapons if it were about nuclear weapons in the middle east then the united states would have a bone to pick with israel which is the only power in the middle east which actually possesses nuclear weapons it's not about that that's the cause it's 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 links with hamas they see 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 so it's to from a political science professor from paris west university says that by isolating iran western leaders are trying to improve their political standing ignoring the economic dangers it spells. from an economic point of view it is not wise but you know from a political point of view this is grandstanding and political. coming from leaders who are facing elections obama in the us and obama has very tough on iran because it is accused by the republicans are being soft on iran and so who is going to spread it in countries trying to score a success so trying to bash iran something good for political reasons for this readers on the domestic speech economically because if oil prices continue to rise 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 it ran owes it to live a 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 iran but iran has other possibilities the most obvious one is of course turning to china we'd love to hear your opinions on this story head to the forum section of our web site r t v dot com to get involved if you'd like to is just some of the viewpoints of what you think's going to happen in the region we go one viewer saying the world still in a financial crisis which george bush and tony blair left us with maybe russia and china will throw their weight forward to stop an attack on iran another opinion iran will not dare hamper all exports and start a war in the middle east simply because it's going to be razed to the ground and europe and america can easily impose any sanctions on iran for the good of all people on earth. and another viewpoint is that we should quote just hope for this

one side of this conflict will be sensible and won't push the other towards an all out which ultimately means nuclear war the us is playing with fire putting pressure on iran to perform section of our teeth or conversely more opinions and of course to have your say. this is r t coming up in the program shifting priorities at the pentagon. thank you once on bail thing it's new military strategy ground wars are now seen as passe ending new kind of warfare is in the wars and i'll tell you more about it as i come back in just a few minutes. prosecutors in the trial of ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak who called for death by hanging for him and his close associates they justified the request by arguing that mubarak was personally responsible for every protested death during the country's revolution the prosecutor went on to claim that quote retribution is the solution the eighty three year old currently suffering severe

health problems and was carried into the here are going to stretch ship radio host and author stephen leatherman said he believes the trial is merely a diversion from the continuing group of brutality against protesters in the country. this is a distraction this is to do. i believe being the. move for. trying to absolve themselves of the process i think things are worse now one of the military and. no law also the people running the country the same ones closely allied with mobarak when you. see people because all we agree with the people who do i think the protests will go on and people all the violence will continue to struggle there's 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 something activists had previously said was untrue opposition groups also accused the massacres of misleading the league. observers by taking them to areas loyal to the government pressure builds of syrian authorities the country's foreign ministries now slammed the u.s. for interfering after washington sent an envoy to the arab league for talks about the latest developments political analyst and journalist dr nash told us the league's observers are on 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 some american pressure there are pressures by some arab countries that are pro-american on the go observers to actually like the way

they will draft their reports these observers the syrian officials have been given the observers 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 even in the different neighborhoods where there was a lot of tension now let's hope that they will let these 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 now they are profiting from the movement it's such a big shame that some western powers and some fallen intervention in syrian 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 this hour we're going to be looking at post gadhafi libya the leader of the m.t.c. admits the country could be on the brink of civil war and calls for the media crackdown on armed militias but says thousands remain grandfathers over the previous political allegiances more about the couple and plus. putting his money where your mouth is the meter next about entrepreneur who filled in a gap in the market after the collapse of the soviet union by setting up his own private dentistry business. barack obama's 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 two simple tenures land wars and re shift focus instead on stamping their military superiority of cross asia in the pacific our correspondent richard cam has the details from washington d.c. . 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. is pull troops out of iraq would still leave thousands of contractors behind president obama said that 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 is 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 over 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. marking one of the lowest moments since the onset of europe's debt crisis more than two years ago the greek government is now publicly threatened to abandon the euro warnings came from the prime minister lucas papademos says negotiations over the one hundred thirty billion euro bailout package drag on the pier more that the greek economy could enter an uncontrolled collapse as early as march if more cash

isn't secured creditors greeks are at loggerheads with the bankers on one hand refusing to write off any more debt or unions on the other saying they won't make any more static cuts the hope now is that a fiscal union will act as a last line of defense against the debt crisis but that's something that leading economist earlier claim or as little faith. in my system it is that this europe will not be able to form such a political union there is too much energy to the countries to different. countries or to return to their own so often to 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 feel 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 that brossel is far away from from

them. and it's not reality the people we live with. just some of course they're from economists are you claim that is full interview coming your way just over an hour's time again on this channel. with the e.u. market is debt debacle he might think that's germany which has been bankrolling the blocks survival i thought would be most concerned but among many people there were a very different priorities right now and he got piskun off reports 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 get out and. the pirate party germany that's right this is an annual meeting of a political party and all these people are among its eighteen thousand members

across germany like dmitry 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 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 port authority managed to win nearly nine percent of the vote securing fifteen seats most people who they say. just something something fresh 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 for mean 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. along with another four local votes across the country a mainstream politics is also losing attractiveness because. there's often too little distinction or distinctiveness between different parties from different fields or areas sometimes it's in difficult to tell the difference between conservative and social democrat experts say the 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 need to long before they could find themselves on the margins you get this kind of or germany will fall out from europe's financial troubles us now created an unholy the british government of the archbishop of canterbury are engaged in a bitter spatter of a banking grade and that's an exchange that was missed by ati cards report so here in ten minutes. the architect 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 the first pierpoint nor green he says oh poppycock this is not. bishop i think a lot of tests changed since two thousand and eight actually and i think there has

been a lot of soul searching in the financial services industry quite rightly too jolly good looking or doing down take the one across silence that is frank frank and face reality ok your entire cities being burned down by terrorist bankers and out there in the club with cameron rubbing uglies when you should be doing something productive. more than a bit later it's time for let's not pass find a serious weather focusing on export entrepreneurs who made the move into the russian market in the wake of the u.s.s.r. collapse now there were times when demand for good quality private dentistry sorted russia courtney was about the people who've managed not only to fill that go but also make a fortune. 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 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 according staff and specialist sort of generally organized separately doctors refer patients to each other here are places 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 there. elsewhere this is a country economy and a market that's growing at a really really rapid pace. 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 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 corridors and the shops of shopping malls the beautiful stuff takes place at night people restock reverchon 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 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 to 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. and that series continues throughout the week as well the head of libya's transitional government submitted the country could be sliding into civil war he

says it's a likely outcome unless the n.c.c. when it is to take control over militias and disarm them it 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 having been charged parties xander boyko 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. we are releasing those who didn't commit serious crimes those with blood on their hands will be waiting for the prosecutor's decision while the new off the richest were eager to pain the release as a goodwill gesture both the detention and the parole seemed internally 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 or rather before the absence of it they are mostly in prison was triple his top 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 are on 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 loyalist i beheld 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 tog 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 tell not 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 the group beat 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 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 prisoner 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. could look at some other stories that happen around the world that are bringing up to date with a wave of explosions in iraq killed seventy two wounded more than one hundred the deadliest attack was in the country south that claimed the lives of at least forty four shia pilgrims meantime in baghdad a bomb attached to a motorbike went off near a bus station that was followed by three more 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's something dating back to before a time in office all but so ready on trial for three unrelated counts of fraud and breach of trust but he denies all those charges. coming up parties marc. keyser disco stacey has been exposed more of those scandals but on the world's financial headlines they were the shortly. brought you a recap on our top stories tonight after this quick break.

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now on r.g.p. 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 minerals wealth starts its way across. the ocean. well come into the composite region russia blows up on r t. one stream cascading from mom and slopes the view is miss mirage. the a this beauty brings death at a speed of more than two hundred kilometers per. step to the i'm a long one on cheek. 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. it's.

updating the headlines from moscow twenty four seventh's this is our t.v. and our top stories tonight that says it's agreed in principle and go on a radio oil exports are driving up fears of a spike in oil prices of me the trouble local economy. egyptian 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 being seen to divert public attention criticism of the country's interim military rule. and syrian authorities announced they freed over five hundred fifty political prisoners and withdrawn

security forces from residential areas as part of the arab league peace plan but opposition activists continue to claim the regime concessions are a show. for those stories with me kevin i know it is thirty minutes time before that. usual and usual entertaining exposé of the world of big business this time revealing some of the tricks used by corporations to avoid facing justice. max kaiser. a report. burned at the stake or something else stacey herbert well max they have a lot of excuses this year for justifying their behavior the first one cor is aion another victim of the alpha male curse this is from well.