it 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 of spell 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 so. professor political science professor from west paris 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 cozy who is quite discredited in trances trying to score a success so trying to bash iran something good for political reasons for this readers on the domestic stage economically of course if 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 knows it deliver 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 when you climb is no doubt it would also have an impact on the ranch but iran has other possibilities the most obvious one is of course selling to china. we very much like to hear your opinions on this story head to the forum section on our web site r t v dot com if you'd like to get involved these are just a few of the viewpoints of what you think is going to happen there we go one viewer saying the world is 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 one for another opinion is. dead or hamper all exports and start a war in the middle east simply because it will be razed to the ground zero put america could easily impose any sanctions on iran for the good of all people on earth. and just time for more quote just hope at least one side of this conflict

will be sensible to push the other towards an all out which automatically means nuclear war the us is playing with fire putting pressure on iran. conversely more opinions and say have your say also on the web site as well filling a gap in the market find out how it acts to extract profit by launching a cutting edge dentistry practice check out the latest pathfinder series at our home. prosecutors in the trial of ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak of call for death by hanging for him on his closest associates they justified their request by arguing that mubarak was personally responsible for every protest to death during the country's revolution prosecutor went on to claim that quote retribution is the

solution the eighty three year old currently suffering severe health problems of this carried into the hearing on a stretcher radio host and author stephen leatherman said he believes the trials merely a diversion from the continuing brutality against protesters in the street. this is a distraction. this is to do the ok ron was three east regional living here but i believe being the it was. for several days each in their own trying to absolve themselves in the process to give things a worse know one of the military and no law also the people running the country the same ones closely allied with low bar and used to see people because all we agree with susan and people who are j.p. too but i think the protests will go on and the people won't be fooled the violence will continue to struggle there is

a long way to go. he watching r t still to come in the program while syrian opposition activists say the assad regime concessions are a sham rascasse announces the release of over five hundred fifty political prisoners and says security forces have been moved out of residential areas as part of the arab league peace plan the latest for you. plus political rebels gain strength why some german voters weary of starvation and mainstream politics fred to make some politicians poor to play wilting for a new government the pirate party. has announced a new road for the u.s. military with an emphasis on making the military leader and cheaper the plan calls on the armed forces to abandon their ability to fight two simple tainio wars and reshift focus on stamping their military superiority across asia in the pacific a correspondent in washington can report. 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 to give the u.s. military this whole new shape which is the defense secretary said it will be nothing like the cold war or the post cold war military meaning they're moving away from ground wars told words air wars toward the intelligence war so to speak the u.s. is pull troops out of iraq would feel like 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 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 we 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 result the new strategy will bring. will coalition believes the new plan means rather cool money but the misery for other targets for conflict. this is not a step away from war this is not a step towards pacifism or a step towards a retreat from empire building it's actually the use of a military strategy that costs the american political leaders be they obama or

whoever takes his place afterwards last on the home front if there are fewer american casualties of all the bleeding is done on the other side of all of the destruction is done by those who are suffering the consequences of air war they feel that there will be less antiwar sentiment at home so it's not a promise in the progressive directions what the obama administration and what the pentagon are doing in it and obama signaling that explicitly in his speech he puts again the primacy of the turn towards asia which really is a turn against china i think they're looking forward to this competition and the evolution of a possible cold war type scenario with china which again gives the pentagon a long term enemy which justifies gives rationale to the continued expansion of the us defense budget this does not cut the defense budget it only slows the projected growth of the defense budgets the u.s.

government budget deficit is a major major problem in a threat to the united states standing in the global market but nonetheless the primacy of the military industrial complex is in fact intact so if there's a budget shortfall you'll see what teachers laid off nurses laid off firefighters laid off but the pentagon will get more than its fair share well with the buckle you might think that germany which has been bankrolling the blocks of of left foot would be the most conservative on many people there is very different priorities of the sequel because canal for ports next on 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 is 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 and this is an annual meeting of a political party and all these people or i'm only 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 we'll have 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 act 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 an go in miracles federal coalition porter is the first to feel the change of heart from voters that actually lost the berlin wall to along with another four local volts across the country 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 even 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 be too long before they could find themselves on the margins this kind of or d. in germany. in syria over five hundred fifty prisoners involved in the anti regime uprising there have been released according to state t.v. says arab league officials say the government's pulled out heavy weapons and tanks from civilian areas so the activists have previously said was untrue opposition groups also accused the massacres of misleading the league's observers by taking them to areas loyal to the government as pressure builds and syrian authorities the country's foreign ministry slammed the u.s. with the theory of washington sent an envoy to the arab league for talks about the latest developments barrow based political analyst and journalist old roman a shabby says the league's observers around the r. and a 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 there are some american pressure there are pressures by some arab countries that are pro-american on the your observers to actually affect the way they will draft their reports these observers the syrian officials have been given the or 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 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 and 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. a destructive move on the part of the united states and its allies in the region there's no check out what else is happening around the world a wave of explosions in iraq killed seventy two and wounded more than one hundred the deadliest attack in south claiming the lives of at least forty four she appealed meanwhile in baghdad a bomb attached to a motorbike went off near a bus station it was followed by three more explosions the violence has raised fears that 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 time in office almost already control for three unrelated counts of fraud and breach of trust but denies

all charges. thousands of demonstrators the take of the streets of the yemeni capital sanaa demanding the prosecution of the country's president ali abdullah saleh and the release of political prisoners says he remains in power despite ten months of violent unrest demanding he quits not resign from the presidency despite signing a deal six weeks ago in november to stand down and hand power to his vice president in exchange for immunity from prosecution that followed several other international deals for him to depart. thousands of visitors a float to the city of harbin is annual ice festival in northeastern china lavish fireworks marked the opening ceremony lighting up the sky the show goes on traditionally until the snow melts attracting over thirty thousand visitors organizers playing the harbin ice kingdom is one of the largest spectaculars of the . the new year is just days old but already there's not a looming crisis for the eurozone with greece's threat to ditch the euro if the

country doesn't get another bailout or interview coming up next with economist audio player looks ahead to two thousand and twelve what might lie in store for the european union. 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 after all that said we have the euro exists and there is a crisis. 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 service stronger fiscal. coordination but also better social policy that would sort of supporting dural only in my system it is this europe will not be able to form such a political union there is too much. countries to different. countries so to attach to their own. different styles they have a hard time working together on international issues think of iraq. and

so it will be very hard to to to have one address that foreigners can call. you merge she is there. that they will speak with one voice. up there very you see in the united nations the i.m.f. and they will speak voice it is at the moment inconceivable. that britain will give up their rights but also france is not even thinking of giving that up. germany will become too powerful there's simply too much that prevents europe from becoming one political union if you want a german chancellor angela merkel she said that political union is already taking shape is it though and what is she basic that statement on well from where we are we are making progress in the in the sense of suggestions of because these are

suggestions or plans to have stricter rules and to enforce those rules and her view and her reality that is working moving towards a political union but my critique is that what is lacking and what they're really needed for political union is also in sense of society i think is an example germany germany is a society how do we notice that germany is in society there are parts of germany form east german states. that are a real dire financial economic situation much worse than greece is right now do you notice anything about that in the rest of the world because west germans take it as as self as something self evident that they are to support the east german states there's massive transfers of money going from west to east to maintain a sense of unity and a sense of stability and therefore

a sense of society those conditions are not in place and also can be imagined to be in place in europe at large the greek government spokesman said. quote unquote greece faces an exit from the europe bloc unless it clinches a deal on a second one hundred thirty billion bailout from its international lenders how much do you think they really believe in this threat is it something the really think is likely or are they using this rhetoric to gain support for pushing more sturdy measures i think that they usually know as an argument to enforce all kinds of cutbacks and to get popular consent which they need to in order to make the policy effective i think that greece is still an overall desire to hold on to the euro and the reason is that the greeks are very suspicious of their governments there so they desperately want to have european government involved in their country because

there's sort of a countervailing power against their own politicians the same story applies to you telling us. another issue this is going to work i don't think so the best spreadsheet is to do what iceland did argentina has gone in so many other people countries have done before is allowed to have their own currency devalue it so to make their country more cheaper and use that as sort of the beginning of an effort to organize commercial activity that enables them to sell when we talk to experts analysts and economists even if they are euro skeptics as the situation seems to have gotten so complicated that they would also mention concessions and they're saying that there are two choices now one is being forced into more europe more integration otherwise the alternative is a financial crisis are these the only two options left. i do think that if if you

give up your up to euro which i think you need to do you will face a so-called crisis all kinds of institutions will get into serious trouble banks will fail countries will look at the trouble unemployment. will feel and face a serious depression i think all that will materialize but i also see is the possibility and that's what i would focus on. restructuring you rethink the way be doing things rethink also the way we view would you call me focus less on economic growth focus more on quality being more concerned with sustainability and so if you also would have. that i see action an opportunity arising if we give up on ideal but i think there's an old fashioned wall. holes for the

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