for the post cold war military meaning they're moving away from ground wars toll words air wars toward the intelligence war so to speak the u.s. is pull troops out of iraq would feel less 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 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 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 but braun backer of the antiwar coalition to use the new plan would indeed slow down pentagon budget growth but will spare others the misery of continuing conflicts. 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 signaled 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 budget 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 it is a budget shortfall you'll see teachers laid off nurses laid off firefighters laid off but the pentagon will get more than its fair share. while they announced shift in strategy isn't stopping the u.s. from deploying thousands of troops to israel the biggest ever joint drill and it's

very easy to run suspicions of a clear warning they're consumed with the tree action against it more of that on our web site. later in the program the simmering conflict between tehran. and the dooming iranian oil exports and its tensions consequences. syria's opposition has rounded on the arab league observer mission on the balance in the country and went to approve a libya style no fly zone they accused in the go of covering for president assad's regime to suppress protesters to cairo based body denies its observers are being misled by the side and says the accusations are playing into the league claims its

mission has made damascus compromise and pulling out its tanks from civilian areas and releasing three thousand prisoners in recent weeks richard spencer from the alternative rights dot com says the opposition is taking its lead from libya and using foreign forces to help propel itself. this is once again an example of rebels who will want to make a deal with the united states and use their power to their enemy in many ways the. tool of. american order the libyan situation began nearly a miracle is going to enforce a no fly zone yet once that ball gets through to speak it's all time we're going to eventually wait in regime change war the. rebels being you know lifted up to a new position after their enemy is taken out. of political analyst and on the.

opposition groups have seize the initiative from grassroots syrians. they are profiting from the movement the movement of people to protest for basic rights and they have rights and it is true that there are some legitimate demands on the part of the syrian people but it's such a big shame that some western powers and some foreign an 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. prosecutors in egypt calling for house to president hosni mubarak and two of his sons to be hanged they argue that mubarak is the person responsible for every protest his death during the last five days of pollution eighty three year old is said to be suffering health problems and was cowed into court on

a stretcher a radio host and author stephen leatherman said he believes the trial is aimed at diverting attention from the fact that the new military is barely different. this is a distraction this is. located iran has reached. bill aiming. for several days each in their own trying to absolve themselves in the process taking things or worse no one of the military and. no law also the people running the country the same ones closely allied with no barrier. to see people because all agreements are certain people are j.p. too but i think the protests will go on and people won't be cool the violence will continue to struggle there's a long way to go. well online and we have more on the world's top stories including

how hollywood got tom level access to information from the summit in trying to turn it into big screen drama. moscow's snow city is on the way taking everything from a fitness club to prison. what began as a symbol of the united europe has now the token at the heart of a crisis that's tearing it apart ten years on then the euro is in real trouble with countries plagued by debt crisis remedies failing to give relief also the reports now from brussels. the birth of an ambitious project a common currency celebrated with no less than

a big bang. theory is the beginning of a strong europe there you know. the barriers to the war the battle. here ten years down the road the euro is not in the best of shape. a spiraling sovereign debt crisis credit downgrades rising interest rates tens of millions unemployed budget cuts and violent protests. the euro is growing undergoing the worst crisis it has ever been and obviously the founders of the of the euro did not hope that this would happen for what began as a step towards a united europe has become a race against time with leaders scrambling to keep it together. euro skeptics have long argued that the euro was flawed from the start pursuing a political dream above all else well they say lumping together polar opposite

economies like that of greece and germany into a monetary union could never work. rationality has been thrown out of the window in the pursuit of this goal and we now are reaping the consequences of a couple that with internal squabbles and deadlocks there has to be from somewhere that some economic entity that is credible is going to back every euro zone and the only two or three entities that can do that what is european central bank. the other is basically the german government and neither of them right now are willing to do it but this exhibit shows the journey of the european union and the creation of the single currency with documented events in history that explain why it would have been appealing to decision makers at the time so much so the crux of the fundamentals may have been overlooked or ignored which brings us to this point ten years after the creation of the euro its appeal has waned and despite last

ditch efforts to save it its future is still uncertain in the spirit of the new year we asked for some predictions but one can be sure of is that this crisis is going to be a long and bumpy road however if you would ask me do you think that the euro would still exist in ten years time my answer would be yes they can't bring themselves to admit that it was a mistake and so i'm afraid we risk the very thing they purport to fear which is a disorderly breakup of the euro caused by having tried to keep it together for too long downgrades almost certainly i think you'll see a french downgrade i still think this is solvable if the political will is shown in certain member states to allow for what is called solidarity in europe. and if not if we are in for a huge huge recession in europe my prediction that at least greece will leave the euro in the next year and what happens beyond that is unpredictable euro watchers

may have divergent views on the single currency future but it seems whichever way the euro goes it won't be painless. r.t. brussels. what are happy a tale later this hour as we profile another successful export business and russia that's building instead of breaking its balance sheet. we literally wrote our business plan in the tents you know between two thousand meters and five thousand six hundred meters so maybe that's why a business plan but. not enough to. find is an american entrepreneur whose business in russia is definitely going up hill plus. this footage is an example of a meeting between the outside culture and the native people disappeared hundreds of left and their language is on the verge of extinction closeup team exposed russia's forest community committed to its survival.

iran is accusing the e.u. of waging an economic war it's in response to europe considering banning iranian oil imports in the coming weeks there's already a verbal standoff over sanctions imposed by the u.s. at the end of last year and pressing iran into banning its nuclear program tehran threatened to block a key maritime trade route in the persian gulf and backed off but it's still warning u.s. ships against sailing in the area of war activists in the western iran suppose it nuclear ambitions as an excuse to curtail iranian influence in the region. this isn't just about nuclear weapons there 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 within 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 stop all 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 well political or science professor peer says that by isolating iran western leaders are trying to score political points while ignoring the economic disaster it spells for them. from an economic point of view it is not wise but you know print 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 want to spread it in kansas trying to score a success so trying to bash iran something good for political reasons for the 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 tensions are likely to have thanks european countries as well and in fact read that mario drag is asking for a good day for it to leave because he ran over 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 your opinion on this new down it would also have an impact on iran but iran has other possibilities the most obvious one is of course selling to china

. where we're getting your thoughts on what the sanctions imposed on iran would lead to his helping the starting up at r.t. dot com so far today just over half of us soil around the push to desperation by these measures regarding that was an act of war there's an even split between those who believe the sanctions will change nothing at all that eighty percent say. prices are damaging. and they feel that sanctions will harm the reigning people instead of then there's going to alton dot com the cost to. more entrepreneurial trailblazers now as we meet foreigners turning their russia experience into profit today in our pathfinder series we meet american and that office is giving russia's wealthiest some adventures in their own country. just. any travel in russia is adventure travel for most people.

i had a great time in my corporate career but i was working and living in thinking about when is going to be the next trip i realize i'm one of these troops so i was talking with one of my best friends that we could do this organization actually i think we could do it maybe better and we literally wrote our business plan in the tents you know between three thousand meters and five thousand six hundred meters so maybe that's why our business plan is a little off. not enough monks to. one of the goals of our like life business plan with this new company was that we're going to find really cool husbands but my friend met her husband on the trip i'm so looking honestly all the businesses that were in our service. and because we've been operating for ten years and some of the businesses we've already given birth to a lot of competitors who are you know our top consultants are top of managers who

eventually decide they want to try to do this themselves i've been to more than eighty three countries now before starting ask for of it also since starting ask for every year we go to some new places to expand our offering we have our own helicopter school in the northern caucasus northern caucasus development corporation has come to our company action and asked you know how can we help promote together to bring more. luxury venture tourism to the region first thing we said was stop calling it the northern provinces we call it bruised but there's so many beautiful places that have a better notion but i would say general business in russia of course it was in a way easier to enter the market in the ninety's but it was a little crazier than now the business environment it's a little bit more regulated little bit easier to work because everybody is you know

not paying taxes it's not like you're competing against the people who don't pay taxes at all i have to say you know because we have quite a small group of clients we are growing every year but it's we're not a big agency so i can't say that are trying to block the rest of the market but what we do find it is that the people that have. more money than they can ever spend. and had the opportunity to travel everywhere in the world they want to travel in russia and what russia needs really for russians of that caliber and also foreigners who want to travel is needs we need more infrastructure bridges and i'm shocked that the season is very short so most people come between july and august maybe the beginning of september in june you can still have some snow on the ground and the mosquitoes are bad by col has three hundred on the actual lake you have something like three hundred sunny days a year it's really a year round destination two thousand and twelve will be sending at least six

expeditions around the world we have already planned iceland the media probably mexico because we want to see the end of the mayan world and the end of two thousand and twelve she'll be. on your feet and also around russia again another area of growth you have a lot of foreigners who want to come to russia most important thing is having the right business card. i have been really blessed i met my business partners most of them in the early ninety's when we were working together with come a trophy and so we had some lag expedition and tough experience together very good dinner guest because i can always talk about different places that i've been a good places to go. always argue. because i love it will be my people ask you oh you know how can you be still living in russia all the time i think because every day still now you know never never know what's going to happen it's like maybe it's not always a good thing sometimes it's a bad thing but there are always a lot of surprises you never ever ever board. now

let's bring you some more world news patience is rapidly running out in yemen where thousands of protesters descended on the capital for president saturday to be prosecuted also want political prisoners to be released their leader has not yet resigned despite a deal in the event that one day over power to his vice president exchanged unity from prosecution. rio de janeiro is on maximum alert after a storm is destroyed protecting the city there's now a scramble to evacuate people from the areas most in danger with around thirty five thousand residents already displaced people died on thursday as floods swept through dozens of towns across brazil. russia close up team now ventures to part of the country's far east which unites

russians ukrainians tatars and even koreans. who are in the. region where the area's indigenous population is adapting to the world getting smaller as cultures and people makes aussies home boston explores how they're tending to keep their traditions alive while retaining their identity in the global village. the dance of the drums these are the nana and native people who were here in the far east long before the first russian explorers arrived they still retain links to their pre russian culture. to the honest opinion most nanae families are happy for us to teach our native culture here at the village hall there is a relatively large population of now and i and that's helped conserve some of the

traditions of the central to the nano way of life has always been fishing the russians brought with the new technology and culture most of the eight hundred thousand and eight c. now have other jobs but still take regular trips out onto the windswept ice. fishing is extremely important to us as part of our traditional way of life to fish drop we froid them boil them smoke them and dry them we are all sorts of fish. which further to the east we find a much bleaker picture this village is an example of a failed meeting between an outside culture and a native people whereas the night sea have accepted a large degree of assimilation but remain productive and connected to their heritage the origin people here have lost far more than just the native ways the orit's were also a native fishing people now their fishing boats lie broken and unused on the shore

of. our parents are to blame they started the drinking the children seat and start as well some children grow up too fast they start smoking at six since soviet times attempts to integrate the origin to society have had disastrous results the houses here go largely unrepaired most or its children soon drop out of school unemployment and alcoholism are rife you think that if we tore away their culture and implanted ours it will help them so. they became dependent now the social and economic situation has changed they need to start helping themselves but they're not ready to do that oksana as house is falling apart and she hasn't stored enough food to last in the winter but her and her jobless husband want to be given a new house and free schooling. why is your husband not working does he want to work he wants work but there's no jobs and in the nearby town he would need to

go there every day but it's not far he would need to pay for the bus to help at wages but at the moment. miller's house nearby is much better kept she is the village elder and shows me pictures of her grandfather revered as the last ground sharman amid a world still rooted in its origins but nowadays the people around her are very different they've given up they don't want to live a normal life. there are now only a few hundred all writs left this village is perched on the edge of the sea was in a quite different sense it's now clinging to the edge of existence. i had lunch with this.

family i lived in a fairly nice community was it which was an upscale it was just like you know society. then they started showing up what happened was my company decided i could get cheap labor and they got rid of. me rosa eaglets 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 that's just the american dream

and if you want the american dream you have to go by the last i figure here's one of the major trails in the united states. and they run run down my property and about this noise. people. from all over the wire is protecting the country and the kind of guy who doesn't mindedness pay and sturdy so i come out here you know we're all immigrants as well that we all carry some sort. download the official t. application to go on the phone or i pod touch from the i choose ops to. life on the go. video. ati's mine costs and feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com.

if they shoot something inappropriate for public they can easily be. casualties of war ok. i wish they would have never happened but if. in a war a t.v. camera becomes an unnecessary what destroys their own safety all foreign nationals including journalists and inspectors should leave. and it's clear what happens with such witnesses i got it on my site.

merciless shooting. welcome back to recap top stories now president obama has unveiled a major overhaul of the world's biggest shrinking u.s. military manpower a new strategy also includes expanding the forces presence across asia. syria's opposition calls on the u.n. to establish a no fly zone in the country. prove regime for the league says the claims. iran is courting the east proposed one incoming strong reaction is the latest in

a series of intensifying military and diplomatic responses by tehran live growing pressure from western powers over its nuclear projects. tempted by big city life then disillusioned next to the tragic and turbulent story of a modern day revolutionary thing on the us mexico border. the immigration bill goes down in the senate that is the subject of the seedings talking points. critics of arizona's new immigration bill so you know allows police to stop anyone on the street based purely on the person's appearance governor brewer's response when asked by a reporter what illegal immigrant looks like. i do not know i do not know what legal immigrant looks like but the sticking point is what to do with the millions of people who are on this country in this country illegally.