more 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 through life 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 results the new strategy will bring we brought in becker of the code this these new plan to the pentagon budget growth but won't spiros 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 less 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 the 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 if there's 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. ok and safety in the army strategy isn't stopping the u.s. from to play thousands of troops to israel their biggest ever joint drill and it's

very easy your own suspicions of a clear warning that the launch into action against a war and that it's on our website let's go. right to the program look at the supreme court tween terror on the west and. the iranian oil export its potential consequences. syria's opposition has rounded on the arab league observers mission on the violence in the country urging the u.n. to approve a libya style no fly zone is that the go of covering for president assad's regime to suppress protesters the car abased body denies its observers are being misled by either side says the accusations are preemptive the league claims its mission has made damascus compromising to pulling out its tanks from civilian areas you see more thousand prisoners in recent weeks which is spencer from the alternative rights dot com says the opposition is taking its lead from the 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. american border libyan situation began nearly america's going to force a no fly zone yet once ball gets. through to speak it's all timely going to eventually weighed in regime change war the. rebels be. lifted up to a new position to their enemy is taken out. by a political analyst says opposition groups have seized the initiative from grassroots syrians. they are profiting from the movement for 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 calling for ousted president hosni mubarak and two of his sons to be hanged they argue that mubarak is personally responsible for every protest his death during the last revolution eighty three year old is said to be suffering health problems and was counting to courts on a stretcher radio host and author stephen then been saying he believes the trial is diverting attention from the fact that the new route is very different this is a distraction this is. obligated to run was originally to.

blame being the end. for each end there in trying to absolve themselves of the process seems a worse you know one of the military and no law also people running the country to say more closely allied with. you see people because all agreements are certain people are too but i think the protests will go on and people won't be fooled the violence will continue to struggle there's a long way to go but online we have more on the world's top stories including health hollywood got level access to information something any time is big screen drama. also online moscow's snow city is on the way containing everything from a fitness club to prison.

what began as a symbol of the united europe is now the token at the heart of a crisis that's tearing it apart ten years on than the year i was in real trouble 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. theory is the beginning of a strong europe there you're. better for the war the better to do with.

it ten years down the road the euro is not in the best of shape. spiralling sovereign debt crisis credit downgrades rising interest rates tens of millions unemployed budget cuts and violent protests. the euro's going 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 e.u. 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 economic rationality has been thrown out of the window in the pursuit of this goal and we're now reaping the consequences of that

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 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 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. later this hour as we profile another successful export business in russia it's building instead of breaking its balance sheet. we literally wrote our

business in the tent you know between two thousand meters and five thousand six hundred meters so maybe that's why our business but. not enough money to replace pathfinder is an american entrepreneur whose business in russia is definitely. class. this is an example of a failed meeting between an outside culture and the nature of people just a few hundred left on their languages in the verge of extinction auntie's close up to expose russia's far east community committed to 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. and of last year and pressing iran into abandoning its nuclear program tehran

threaten to block a key maritime trade routes in the persian gulf and then to backed off but it's still warning u.s. ships against sailing in the area but on a legal entity hold on naval drills next month but antiwar activists. in iran supposed nuclear ambitions as an excuse to come tell that they need influence in the region. 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 of spare life but the reason for this continued conflict is because the american administration simply can't live with 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 administration 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 a political science professor piercy a learner 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 weiss 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 of being soft on iran and so cozy want to spread

it in trance he's trying to score success trying to bash iran something good for political reasons for the readers on the domestic stage economically of course if oil prices continue to raise it would be very bad. for the entire global economy i think the sanctions are likely to affect european countries as well and in fact that mario drag is asking for a delay for it to leave because he ran knows it to live out 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 the rant but iran has other possibilities the most obvious one is of course turning to china where we're getting your thoughts on what the new sanctions imposed on iran will lead to herself it is starting to don't come so far over after you were shown a run of desperation by the national guard and as an act of war an even split tween

those who believe the sanctions will change nothing about eighteen percent saying force prices are. starting to ring people instead of their leaders want to r.t. dot com. or entrepreneurial trailblazers now as we meet foreigners turning their wrath or experience into profits today in our pathfinder series we need to american and that's not us is giving russians wealthiest some adventures in their own country. placed. 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'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 months into. 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. and because we've been operating already for ten years and some of the businesses we've already given birth to a lot of that's a competitors who are you know our top consultants our top 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 asper 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 to have the action and asked you know how can we help promote together to bring more high in luxury venture tourism to the region first thing we said was stop calling it the northern provinces we call it el bruised our he's 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 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'm saying you know because we have quite a small group of clients we're growing every year but it's we're not a big agency so i can't say that our trend is like the rest of the market but what we do find is that the people that have. more money than they can ever spend.

and the 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 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 and 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 which is the end of two thousand and twelve she'll be. on your feet and also around russia again

it's 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 we are very good dinner guest because i can always talk about different places that i've been a good places to go. because i love it really by people ask you know 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 surprise you never ever ever bored. just . well let's bring you some more world news now and patience is rapidly running out in yemen where thousands of protesters descended on the capital calling for

president salih to be prosecuted they also want political prisoners to be released emmons leader has not yet resigned despite a deal in the vendor to hand over power to his vice president in exchange for mutiny from prosecution. hungary may become the first e.u. country to face sanctions for apparently violating the group's basic principles. upon that past new constitution including governance of its central bank the e.u. and the u.s. say the war undermines the bank's independence broken off talks on giving financial aid to the deep the struggling country there's growing public transit through their thousands of hungary's protesting the legal changes saying they home democracy. readers in arizona maximum alert after the storms destroyed a dam protecting the city is now a scramble to evacuate people from the areas most in danger with around thirty five thousand residents already displaced eight people died on thursday as floods swept

through dozens of towns across brazil. russia tame now ventures to parts of the country's far east which you know it's russians ukrainians tatas and even koreans. yes we're in the region where the areas indigenous population is adapting to the world getting smaller as cultures and people mix tom bottom explores how they're attempting to keep their traditions alive while retaining their identity in the 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 russian 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 man-i and that helps conserve some of the traditions for 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 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 . at that 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 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 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 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.

by a few minutes a trip to florence with a russian twist. on the headlines. to . be above the

movie. just so. to. see. a family i lived in a fairly nice community was a which was an upscale it was just like you know archie bunker society. started showing up here what happened was my company decided i could get cheap labor and they got rid of. me rosa legally 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. few years one of the. states. i watch and they run down my property and about this noise. from coming over the wire is protecting the country i'm a kind of guy who doesn't mind your newspaper and sturdy so i come out here you know we're all immigrants as well that we all here are some sort of. wealthy british scientists on. the. market.

find out what's really happening to the global economy. the global financial headlines. the headlines that president obama has unveiled a major overhaul of the world's biggest. u.s. military. presence. syria's opposition calls on the u.n. to. fly. a pro regime. says the claims of preemptive. iran is of course. the strong reaction is the latest in a series of intensifying military and diplomatic responses by tehran to rein

pressure from western powers over its nuclear projects. well next we head to florence to see what footprint russian. figures left on italian culture through the ages. hello and welcome to the program. music russians have been fascinated with the talent for centuries and today they come here in the tens of thousands in search of everything from fabulous fashion to the world of its cuisine so joining us.