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 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 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 believes that would indeed slow down pentagon budget growth spiros the misery of two 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 direction is 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 u.s. 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. probably announced a shift in strategy isn't stopping the u.s. from deploying thousands of troops to israel their biggest ever joint drill raising

round suspicions of a clear warning that america will soon launch military action against it. on our website dot com. later in the program we'll look at the simmering conflict between tehran and western powers over the new main drain in oil exports and its potential consequences. syria's opposition has around on the arab league observers mission on the bonnets in the country edging the u.n. to approve a libya style no fly zone accused 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 legal claims its mission has made damascus compromise into pulling out its tanks from civilian areas and 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 be. a tool of the american order the libyan situation began nearly a miracle is going to enforce a no fly zone yet once ball gets so to speak it's all some way 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. a political analyst says armed opposition groups have seize the initiative from grassroots syrians. they are profiting from the movement the right 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 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. prosecutors in egypt calling for ousted president hosni mubarak and two of his sons to be hanged. baracus personally responsible for every protest to death during the last. eighty three year old is said to be suffering health problems and was carried into court on a stretcher radio host and author stephen leatherman said he believes the trial is aimed at diverting attention from the military route is a bit different. this is

a distraction this is. believing. for each end there in trying to absolve themselves of the process things are worse now one of the military well. known also people running the country to say more closely allied with no barrier. is saying people because all agreements are certain people who are objecting to 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 well online we have more on the world's top stories including how hollywood want level access to information a song in the killing to turn his death into the big screen drama. also on live moscow. snow city is on the way turning everything from a witness out to

a prison. what began as a symbol of united europe is now the token at the heart of a crisis that's tearing apart ten years on then the euro is in real trouble with countries plagued by debt crisis remedies failing to give relief parties to our city 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 you're. back to the war back to the war.

yet 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's 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. or skeptics along argue 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 rationale as he has been thrown out of the window in the pursuit of this goal and we're 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 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 of the single currency future but it seems whichever way the euro goes it won't be painless. r.t. brussels but a happier tale 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 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 today's part that is an american entrepreneur whose business in russia is definitely getting. plus. this but it is an example of a meeting between an outside culture and a native people. just a few hundred languages on the verge of extinction a close up to expose russia's far east and a 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 abandoning its nuclear program

tehran threaten to block key mara time trade routes in the persian gulf and later backed off and still warning u.s. ships against sailing in the area along with a portable home for the next month but more activists see western worries over a long supposed nuclear ambitions as an excuse to curtail the country's influence in the region. this isn't just the nuclear weapons we were about nuclear weapons in the. at least 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 spy 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 administration in my view there are some people hawks in israel hawks in the united states who want to start 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 for political science professor here to learn and says that by isolating about western leaders are trying to score political points when ignoring the economic disaster it spills 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 a very tough funny rant because you're cute by the republicans of being soft on

iran and. want discredited transit strike to score a success so trying to bash iran something good for political reasons for this readers on the domestic stage economically because if oil prices continue to raise it would be very bad for the entire global economy i think the tensions are likely to affect european countries as well and in fact that mario draghi is asking for a good leverage 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 iran's 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 into place how opinion is stacking up at r.t. dot com just over half of the say for a strong push to desperation gardening as an act of war these passions. can split

between those who believe the sanctions will change nothing more than another eighteen percent saying full force all prices are damaging the. economy while the rain the feel that sanctions will harm the rain instead of the leaders want to. have. more on trip an aerial trail blazers as we meet foreigners turning their rusher experience into profits today in our pathfinder series we meet american and that office is giving russia's wealthiest some adventures in their own country. extent 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 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 still looking honestly all the businesses that were in our service business and because we've been operating 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 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. 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 our trend is 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 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 is the end of two

thousand and twelve she'll be. anything 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 very good dinner guest because i can always talk about different places that have been a good places to go. because i love it ruby people ask you oh you know how can you do you 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. let's bring you some more news now on the patient says it rapidly running out in yemen

where thousands of protesters descended on the capital calling for presents to be prosecuted those who want political prisoners to be released that has not yet resigned despite a deal and remember to hundred pound is a vice president in exchange for immunity from prosecution. hungary may become the first to e.u. country to face sanctions for apparently violating the group's basic principles the parliament passed a new constitution including governance of its central bank. in the usa the law undermines the bank's independence and broken off talks on getting financial instrument country there's growing public under two hundred gallons protesting the legal changes saying they home democracy. rio de janeiro is on maximum alert after storms destroyed a dam 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 down benches to part of the country's far east which unites russians ukrainians tatars and even koreans. where in the region where the areas indigenous population is adapting to the world getting smaller as cultures and people makes. tom barton explores how they're attempting to keep their traditions and not 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 russian culture. to the fullest opinion most nanay 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 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 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 hour 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 you thought that if we tore away their culture and implanted ours 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 to agree 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 which in a quite different sense it's now clinging to the edge of existence. but

in about five minutes time we explore the struggles of a man who chose to the. us mexico border to recap of our top stories to his. family i lived in a fairly nice community wasn't which was an upscale it was just like you know our society ok then they started showing up here what happened was my company decided

i could get cheap labor and they got rid of. rosa you eaglets love 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 law so i figured. here's one of the major trails into the united states. i watch and they run run down my property and about this noise. mean that cockroaches from coming to the wire is protecting the country and the kind of guy who doesn't mindedness pants dirty so i come out here you know we're all immigrants as well that we all carry some sort.

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calls and says feeds with the palm of your. questions on the dot com. this is our team let's take a look at the headlines now president obama has unveiled a major overhaul of the world's biggest all me shrinking u.s. military manpower the strategy also includes expanding the forces presence of course asia. syria's opposition calls on the u.n. to establish a libya style no fly zone over the country cues are of observers all pro raising of the league says the claims of koreans. iran is supporting the ease proposed for them becoming one strong reaction is the latest in a series of intensifying the military and diplomatic responses by tehran and the

growing pressure from western powers over its nuclear projects. both tempted by big city life then disillusioned thanks to the tragic and turbulent story of a modern day revolutionary living on the us mexico border. we had to earn it i mean we have to earn it every single day of our lives 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 laws i figure broken like the great granddaughters when they were going to go yeah yes mike where were all the immigrants were all immigrants as well that we all care some somewhere else and there's a tolerance level where there's only so much the united states can.