as a united europe but ten years after it appeared more money is now on euro's ruining the. life from our studios in central moscow you're watching r t with me and you said now it's good to have you with us our top story the world's biggest military is about to get smaller with president obama announcing the biggest strategy review in years to try and make the u.s. army leaner and cheaper that includes changing from large ground wars to what he says will be an expanded agile force across asia and the pacific and the middle east but it's going to it's to can reports there are still unanswered questions. the new strategy is to move away from ground wars from long term stability operations to mobile wars where the u.s. can as we don't put out a put it shift and deploy forces to fight any enemy anywhere they said they're

going to invest heavily in new capabilities seen drones in space technologies to give the u.s. military this whole new shape which is the defense secretary said would be nothing like the cold war or the post cold war military meaning they're moving away from ground wars told words and 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 drawled aid 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 as one example the whole country was destroyed mainly from air pakistan is another example not not a successful one though people in pakistan are infuriated by u.s. strikes 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 as passe and irrelevant in this day and age yet it's not clear what result the new strategy will bring. well brian becker of the antiwar answer coalition believes the new plan will indeed slow down pentagon budget growth but won't spare others 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 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 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. well the announce if an army strategies in stopping the u.s. from to prying thousands of troops to israel for their biggest ever joint drill and it's raising bronson suspicions of a clear warning that america will soon launch military action against it on that web site r.t. dot com for you. and later in the program we'll look at the simmering conflict between tehran and western powers on the complaining and oil export ban and its potential consequences. but first syria's opposition has rounded on the arab league observer mission on the violence in the country urging the u.n. to approve a libya style no fly zone they can use the league of covering for president regimes to suppress support testers in the cairo based body denies its observers are being misled by either side and say the accusations are preemptive the league claims its

mission has made damascus compromising to pulling out its tanks from civilian areas and releasing more than three thousand prisoners in recent weeks richard spencer from the alternative right dot com says the opposition is taking its leave 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 remain a tool of the global american order the libyan situation began as merely a america is going to enforce a no fly zone yet once the ball gets rolling so to speak it's all tingly going to eventually in regime change war the rebels being you know lifted up to

a new position after their enemy is taken out. and political analyst. says armed opposition groups have seized 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 fun an intervention in syrian affairs is using these people and using the demands of these people to each 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 are calling for ousted president hosni mubarak in two of his songs to be hanged they argue that mubarak is personally responsible for every protesters death during last february's revolution the eighty three year old

is said to be suffering health problems and was carried into court on the stats our radio host and author stephen lemon says he believes the trial is aimed at diverting attention from the fact that the new military rulers are barely different . this is a distraction this is to divert the public a wrong was. believing. for several days and then try to absolve themselves in the process taking things or worse no one of the military and. no also the people running the country to say more closely allied with all of the art. is saying people because all the grievances are certain people are too but i think the protests will go on and the people won't be fooled the violence will continue to struggle there's a long way to go. online we have more on the world's top stories for you including

how hollywood got top level access to information on some of them a lot of scaling down into a big screen drama. moscow snow city is on the way containing everything from a fitness club to a president. well one began as a symbol of a united europe is now the token of the heart of a crisis that's tearing it apart ten years on and the euro is in real trouble with countries plagued by debt and anti crisis remedies failing to give relief are just as are silly reports from brussels. the birth of an ambitious project a common currency celebrated with no less than

a big bang. the beginning of the strong euro. the barriers to the war 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's growing undergoing the worst crisis that has ever been and obviously the founders 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. era 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 rationality 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 a sign 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 one 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 not we are in for a huge huge recession in your city my prediction that at least greece will leave the euro in the next year and what happens be only it 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 desser cilia r t brussels. well happier tell later this hour as we profile another successful ex-pat business in 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 our business but. not enough months and that is about find there is an american entrepreneur with business in russia is definitely going to hell plus. this village is an example of a failed meeting between an outside culture and the nature of people just a few hundred laughs and their language is on the verge of extinction artie's close a team explores 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 your it's 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 aimed at pressing you braun into abandoning its nuclear program so iran threatened to block a key want maritime trade group in the persian gulf and later backed off but it's still warning us against in the area you run a little quarterly hold another naval drill next month but antiwar activists see western worries over iran suppose nuclear ambitions as an excuse to cartel the country's 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 because it's paralyzed but the reason for the 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 say it's linked with hezbollah and this is a challenge to american power in an absolutely critical economically critical geopolitically critical area of the globe when 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 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 we're going to go fly a cessna clear goren and says that by isolating iran western leaders are trying to score political points i want norrin the economic disaster itself 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 been very tough on iran because he is accused by the republicans are being soft on iran and so is one discredited prances trying to score success so trying to bash iran something good for political reasons for this readers on the domestic speech he can only plea because if oil prices continue to raise it would be very bad. for the entire global economy i think the tensions are likely to thanks european countries as well and in fact i read that mario draghi is asking for a delay for it to live because he ran knows it delivered 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 no doubt it would also have an impact on the

ranch but iran has other possibilities the most obvious one is of course selling to china. we're getting your thoughts on what the new sanctions imposed on iran will lead to here's how opinion is stacking up right now at r t u dot com just over a half of your story ronald the push to desperation by these measures regarding bam as an act of war there's an even split this hour between those who believe the sanctions will change nothing at all and another eighteen percent say it will force oil prices damaging the world economy made her feel that sanctions will harm the iranian people instead of let us know what you think about today log on to our team dot com. more entrepreneurial trailblazers now as we meet foreigners turning their roster experience into profit today in our pathfinder series we meet american and that will last us who's giving russia's wealthiest some of the answers 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 and 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 marks 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 business and because we've been operating already 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 our top managers who eventually decide they want to try to do this because 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 had 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 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'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 our trying to 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 if i 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 edition 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 another area of growth you have a lot of foreigners who want to come to russia most important thing is i mean i've been. i have been really blessed i met my business partners most of them in the early ninety's when we were working together come a trophy and so we had some lag expedition and tough experience together you know very good dinner guest because i can always talk about different places that i've been to good places to go. always argue. about this because i love a room by people ask you know you know how can you be living in russia over 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 the best thing but there always was the surprise never ever ever bored. just. let's bring you some more world news at twenty two minutes past the hour patience is rapidly running out in yemen where thousands of protesters descended on the capital calling for president the day to be prosecuted they also want political prisoners released yemen's leader has not yet resigned despite a deal in november to hand over power to his vice president in exchange for immunity from prosecution. hungary may become the first country to face sanctions for apparently violating the group's basic principles it's after parliament there passed a new constitution including governance of its central bank the e.u. in usa the law undermines the bank's independence and have broken off talks on

giving financial aid to the deeply struggling country there's growing public anger too but how you will find gary and protesting the legal changes saying they harm 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 a team now ventures to part of the country's far east which unites russians ukrainians and even korea. today were in the region where the area's indigenous population is adapting to the

world getting smaller as cultures and people mix archies tom barton explores how they're attempting to keep their traditions alive while retaining their identity in the global village. the dance of the drums these are the nine a 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 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 eighteen 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 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 in 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. with torah where 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 that far he would need to pay for the boss to help at wages but at the moment. mila'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 than usual they've given up they don't want to live a normal life. there are now only a few hundred already snapped up this been ages perched on the edge of the sea but in a quite different sense it's now clinging to the edge of existence tom bottom not to . be back with headlines after sort of break here are.

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mind. and omissions feed now in the palm of your. machine on the dot com. regards to you live from moscow our top stories president obama has unveiled a major overhaul of the world's biggest armies shrinking u.s. military manpower the new strategy also includes expanding the forces presence across asia. syria's opposition calls on the u.n. to establish some libya style no fly zone over the country they use arab observers of protein biased but the league says the claims are preemptive. iran is calling be used composed oil embargo and.