current 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 talk their enemies in many ways the un remains 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 that ball gets rolling so to speak it's ultimately going to eventually wait and regime change war the and rebels being you know lifted up to a new position after their enemy is taken out and political analyst omar 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 and 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. we continue to follow this developing story in syria of course the capital damascus where several people have been reported killed in a suicide attack you can check and keep up with all the latest updates on our twitter feed at r.t. underscore. 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 and includes changing from large ground wars to what he

says will be an expanded agile force across asia the pacific and the mideast but it's going to reports there are still many 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 drone scene space technology is 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 air wars toward the intelligence war so to speak the u.s. as 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 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 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 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 as passe and irrelevant in this day and age yet it's not clear what result the new strategy will bring brian backer 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 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 in 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 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 noun sifton army strategy isn't stopping the u.s. from deploying thousands of troops to israel for their biggest ever joint drill and it's raising bronston suspicions of a clear warning that america will soon launch military action against it more on that for you on our web site r t v dot com. and later in the program we'll look at the simmering conflict between tehran and western powers over the looming iranian oil export ban and its potential consequences. but first what began as

a symbol of the united here up is now the talk about 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 crisis remedies failing to give relief are just tells our affiliate reports from brussels. the birth of an ambitious project a common currency celebrated with no less than the big bang. theory that begin. over strong europe there you know we can't be the greatest to do all the better. yet 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 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 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're now reaping the consequences of it couple that with internal squabbles and deadlocks there has to be a saw in 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 the documented events of 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 or she 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 lads who 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 your city 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 to. brussels. well happier tell later this hour as we profile another successful 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

a business with little. not enough money to today's pathfinder is an american entrepreneur whose business is definitely going up hill what's. this just an example of a failed meeting between an outside culture and the nature of people. there's a few hundred laughs and their language is on the verge of extinction artie's close up team explores russell's far east and a community committed to survival. prosecutors in egypt are calling for ousted president hosni mubarak into song to be hanged they argue that mubarak is personally responsible for every protesters death during the revolution early last year they three year old said to be suffering health problems and was carried into court on a structure radio host and author stephen lemmon said he believes the trial is aimed at diverting attention from the fact that the new military rulers are barely different.

believe being the. and then try to absolve themselves in the process saying things are worse no wonder the military and. note also people running the country the same ones closely allied with no barry were used to . seeing people because all agreements are certain people who are too but i think the protests will go on the people won't be fooled the violence will continue to struggle as. well 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 across a iran into abandoning its nuclear program to round threaten to block

a key maritime trade persian gulf and later backed off site is still warning us sets against selling in the area iran will reportedly hold another naval drills next month but antiwar activists say western worries over iran suppose its nuclear ambitions as an excuse to curtail the country's influence in the region. this isn't just the by 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 the cause of but the reason for this continued conflict is because the american administration simply can't live with an 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 geo

politically critical area of the globe when it's not which is the sticking point for the american ministration in my view there are some people hawks in israel hoax in the united states who want to stop all this militarily and it does seem to me that once we big. 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 but political science professor pierre gore announcers that isolating iran and 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 provability call point of view this is grandstanding and political. coming from leader those 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 currencies trying to score a success so trying to bash iran something good for political reasons for this 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 this sanctions are likely to affect european countries as well and in fact read that mario draghi is asking for a delay for it to leave because he ran owes it to live a lot of money so maybe the sanctions are not going to happen in the way they were announced today but it would be very bad for your opinion on this new down it would also have an impact on 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 at the moment at r.t. dot com just over half of you are sore iran will be pushed to desperation by these

measures regarding them 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 up damaging the world economy while the remainder feel that sanctions will harm the iranian people instead of their leaders log on to our to dot com and cast your vote. more entrepreneurial trailblazers now as we meet foreigners turning their russia experience into profit today in our pathfinder series we meet an american american loftus who is giving ross's wealthiest some adventures in their own country. and they 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 that i was

talking with one of my best friends that we could do this organization and 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. not enough money 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 so 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 our top 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 corporations come to our company had the 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 caucasus we call it. there are 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 and in the ninety's but it was 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'm saying 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 descending at least six to dish and around the world we have already planned iceland the mid 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 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 come a 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 dug. 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 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. let's bring you some more world news this hour patience is rapidly running out in

yemen where thousands of protesters descended on the capital calling for president friday 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 e.u. 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 both the e.u. and us say the wall undermines the bank's independence and i've broken off talks on giving financial aid to the struggling country there's growing public anger too with thousands of young variants 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 are ready displaced eight people died on thursday as floods swept through dozens of towns across brazil. r.g.s. russia close a team ventures to part of the country's far east which unites russians ukrainians tatarstan and even koreans. where in the region today where the area's indigenous population is adapting to cross cultural boundaries being blurred barton explores how they're attempting to keep their to distance alive and retain their identity. the dance of the drums these are the nana and native people who were here in the far east long before the first russian explorers arrived they still retain links to

their pre russian culture. and those families are happy for us to teach our native culture here at the village hall there is a relatively large population of man and that helps conserve some of the traditions for the central to the non-i way of life has always been fishing the russians brought with them 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 we froid them boil them smoke them and dry them we also. 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 orange 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 under news on the shore 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 orage children soon drop out of school unemployment and alcoholism are rife. with torah where their culture and implanted hours will help them so they became dependent not 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 walking does he want to walk he wants work but there's no jobs and in the neighboring town he would need to go there every day but his love is gone he would need to pay for the bus to help at wages as you were 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 or it's 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 on bottom r.t.

. to reminder now of our top story this hour syrian state t.v. says a suspected suicide bomber has killed at least twenty five people in the capital damascus and in attack that was apparently targeting a police these are the latest pictures from the scene of the explosion the government. is blaming terrorists for the assaults it comes after syrian opposition rounds on the arab league observer mission on the continent violence urging the u.n. to approve a libya style no fly zone continue to bring more developments in syria as and when the. british short break i'll be back with a recap of the headlines stay with us. i

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free. video for your media project a free media dog r t v dot com. for watching r c live from moscow where it's three thirty pm our top story is a suspected suicide bomber has killed at least twenty five people in syria's capital in an attack that was apparently targeting a police spots the government's blaming terrorists for the assault. president obama has unveiled a major overhaul of the world's biggest armies shrinking u.s. military manpower a new strategy also includes expanding the forces of presence across asia. iran is calling the e.u.'s proposed oil embargo an economic war the strong reaction is the latest in

a series of intensifying military and diplomatic responses by tehran and the growing pressure from western powers over its nuclear projects. up next peter lavelle asked his guest if boris yeltsin was a key history maker or just in the right place at the right time. if you. want to play. polo 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 opinions differ widely don't know one denies the important role he played in creating our present crosstalk continues that series from the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago. place to. sleep.