it will be nothing like the cold war or 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 but still left 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 one of the 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 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 result the new strategy will bring. the antiwar on sukkot this these that you will indeed slow down in the budget growth but won't spiros the misery of continuing 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 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's 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. well the announced shift in strategy isn't stopping the u.s.

from deploying thousands of troops to israel for their biggest ever joint drill and it's raising iran suspicions of a clear warning that america will soon military action against it warn that on our web site www dot com. and they to him in the program we know the simmering conflict between terror wrought on the western powers of the brain in the oil exports and its potential consequences. syria's opposition has rounded on the arab league observer mission on the violence in the country the un to approve a libya style no fly zone they accused of covering for president assad's regime to suppress protesters the car of baseball he denies it's observers are being misled by either side says the accusations are plentiful the claims its mission has no compromise on the pulling out of tanks from civilian areas in the city more than three thousand prisoners in recent weeks richard spencer from the alternative

rights dot com says the opposition is taking its lead from 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 the american order the libyan situation began nearly a miracle is going to enforce a no fly zone yet once ball gets. through to speak it's ultimately going to eventually wait and regime change war the. rebels. you know lifted up. through their enemy is taken out. of political. opposition groups have seized initiative from grassroots syrians. they are

profiting from the movement for a 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 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. prosecutors in egypt according to ousted president hosni mubarak and his two sons to be hanged they argue that some of barack is personally responsible for every protest to death during the last paper his revolution in eighty three year old is said to be suffering health problems and was carried into court on a stretcher radio host and author stephen then men said he believes the trial is aimed at diverting attention from the fact that the new military who has been

different. this is a distraction this is. legitimately to. blame being. for. trying to absolve themselves in the process taking things or worse know one of the military and. known also people running the country to say more closely allied with no barrier. you see people because all agreements are certain people who are too but i think the protests will go on and people won't be cool the violence will. struggle there's a long way to go. online we have borne the world's top stories including how far you would go top level access to information or some of the killing that is death into big screen drama. city is on the

way containing everything for fitness to prison. what began as a symbol of the united europe is now the token that the heart of a crisis that's tearing it apart ten years on than the euro is in real trouble with countries plagued by debt crisis remedies failing to give relief. to the reports from brussels. the birth of an ambitious project a common currency celebrated with no less than a big bang. do you resist beginning over strong europe there you know we should be the best to do all the better.

yet ten years down the road the euro is not in the best of shape. a spiralling 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. he has been thrown out of the window in the

pursuit of this goal and we now 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 there are 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 that 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 not we are in for a huge huge recession in europe sitting 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 of the single currencies future but it seems whichever way the euro goes it won't be painless does or cilia r.t.

brussels. a happier tale later this hour as we profile another successful ex-pats business in russia that's a building instead of breaking its balance sheet. we literally wrote our business plan in the tech you know between two thousand meters and five thousand six hundred meters third maybe that's why a business plan is. not enough. today's pathfinder is an american entrepreneur whose business in russia is definitely going up hill plus. this village is an example of a failed meeting between an outside culture and the nature of people just a few hundred left and then languages on the verge of extinction auntie's close up to expose russia and a community committed to its survival. iran is accusing the e.u. of waging an economic war it's in response to you are 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 that pressing iran into abandoning its nuclear program tehran threatens the maritime trade unity in the persian gulf and later backed off but is still warning u.s. ships against sailing in the area. next month. more activists see western worries of. nuclear ambitions as an excuse to curtail the iranian influence in the region. this isn't just the nuclear weapons who 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 because of a lot but the reason for the continued conflict is because the american administration simply can't live within iran which has as much regional power 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 political science professor land 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 prudent political point of view this is grandstanding and political. coming from leaders who are facing elections obama in the us and obama has to hear very tough on iran

because it is accused by the republicans of being soft on iran and so cozy want to spread it in countries trying to score a success so trying to bash iran something good for political reasons from this readers on the domestic speech economically because if oil prices continue to raise it would be very bad. for the entire global economy i think this tensions are likely to affect european countries as well and in fact i read that mario draghi is asking for a delivery to leave because he ran owes it to live lot of money so many of 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 the ranch but iran has other possibilities the most obvious one is of course selling to china. well we're getting your thoughts on what the new sanctions imposed on iran

will lead to here's how opinion is stacking up. today just about all of us soil around the push to desperation by the masses regarding them as an act of war it's me who split between the two the sanctions would change nothing at all other eighteen percent or spoiled prices up damaging the world economy. say sanctions will be reined people instead of the leaders we can log on to call them close to. more entrepreneurial trailblazers now as we meet foreigners tending their russian experience into profit story in all parts find the series we meet american and that's enough to get in russia's wealthiest some adventures in their own country. 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

where it is going to be the next trip i realize i want to be true 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 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 money to. one of the goals of our like life business plan with this new company was that we're going to find really cool husband but my friend met her husband on that trip i'm still looking honestly all the businesses that were in our service business and because we've been operating our you for ten years and some of the businesses we've already given birth to a lot of let's say competitors who are you know our top consultants are top the managers who eventually decide they want to try to do this business themselves i've been to more than eighty three countries now before starting astrovan also since

starting after 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 corporations come to our company the action and ask you know how can we help promote together to bring more high end luxury venture tourism to the region first thing we said was stop calling us the northern caucasus we call it el bruce. so when you beautiful places but have a veteran ocean 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'd

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 like 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 it needs we need more infrastructure bridges and i'm just of 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 and by kahlil 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 to dish and 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 leaves my missing and also around russia again it's another area of growth you have a lot of foreigners who want to come to russia the 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 was coming trophy and so we had some like expedition and tough experience together young very good dinner guest because i can always talk about different places that i've been a good places to go i'm always the good of a place because i love it i really do i people ask you oh you know how can you see still living in russia all this time i said because every day still now you know never know what's going to happen is so i maybe it's not always a good thing sometimes a bad thing but there always was a surprise and never ever ever bored.

just. bring you some more world news now and patience is rapidly running out in the yemen where thousands of protesters descended on the capital calling for president saturday to be prosecuted and also want political prisoners to be released their leader has not yet resigns despite a deal in the vendor to hand over power to his vice president and exchange for immunity from prosecution. hungary may become the first country to face sanctions for apparently violating the group's basic principles based on all of you constitution including governance of its central bank both the e.u. and the usa the new undermines the banks and pendants broken off talks on getting financial aid to the struggling country there's growing public anger too with pain gangs protesting on the train just saying they home he no crissy. rio de janeiro is on maximum and the storm is destroyed and protecting the city is

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 tame down ventures to parts of the country's far east which unites russians ukrainians tatas and even koreans. are in the region where the area's indigenous population is adapting to the world getting smaller as cultures and people makes tom bosley explores how they're attempting to keep the traditions of life 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 pretty rubbish and culture. to them 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 a new technology and culture most of the eight hundred thousand and eight sea 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 draw 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 orit's children soon drop out of school unemployment and alcoholism are rife he thought 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 neighboring town she would need to go there every day but it's not that far she 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 lost 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 rich left this village is perched on the edge of the sea but in

a quite different sense it's now clinging to the edge of existence tom bottom aunty . got a few minutes off program across talk of debates how russia's first presidents change the country's history that's a quick look at today's main stories stating. the

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a government under socialism is not a government a free. here least. you have very motivated out cross the country who are activists who are willing to fight for what they think is right for themselves but the fact is forty four bridge. i. think. we are counting in proper counting and i think it's spread by it's cutting off our. it's making real democracy. all but impossible.

with. its technology innovation paul believes developments from around russia we've got the future coverage. this is r.t. let's take a look at the headlines now president obama hasn't failed at a major overhaul of the world's biggest economy 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 they accuse arab observers of pro regime bias and leaks as the claims of a preemptive. under ron is calling the news proposed oil and economic war a strong reaction is the latest in a series of intensifying military and diplomatic responses by tehran and growing

pressure from western powers over its nuclear projects. next people who value his guests if there is yeltsin was a key history maker or just in the right place at the right time. if you. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle boris yeltsin was he a great man who made history or was he merely a product of his time and opinions differ widely don't know one denies the important role he played in creating our present crosstalk continues that series on the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago. play and. play.