carsey threatening to bring down the very union that created it. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. a deadly explosion targeting police has rocked a residential neighborhood in damascus killing up to twenty five it's believed to have been a suicide bombing with most of the casualties civilians syrian t.v. says the blast happened near a primary school it comes as the leader of the country's biggest armed opposition group has reportedly called for president assad's regime to be overthrown by military means meanwhile a former high ranking army official who defected to the opposition has claimed the government was lying when it said the violence was caused by gangs aided from abroad or through the middle east expert tariq ali has told me earlier that he believes the opposition is responsible for the attack and that they're laying the ground for a foreign intervention. some of the opposition are saying there are certain regime

organized this loss themselves but i think it's unlikely the fact is that the national coordination committee in istanbul which is being coordinated itself to a certain extent by nato. is not in control of all the forces on the ground so i think it's quite likely that the suicide bombing was carried out by an opposition force and western governments like france saying that even if they did it the conditions have been created for them to do it something they never say about suicide bombs in. israel or can create is which they are supported so i think the indications are that the bombing was carried out by the opposition to create havoc and to create reprisals and a response we truly make foreign intervention more possible i think there to any calls for nato in under whatever disk i o.

occupying syrian airspace i don't relly on justified and shouldn't be supported by anyone we've seen what the six month bombing of the of libya has done on the ground the figures being touted now between twenty five and thirty thousand libyan people died in both bombing raids we do not want the same thing to happen in syria . where we've been following developments in syria since the very first sparks of uprising ten months ago and we'll keep you up to date on all the details of that suicide blast in the capital as they emerge and by the way can also follow our twitter feed and artie's facebook page for the very latest. if.

the u.s. military is in for a facelift after president obama announced america's focus would fall on establishing its dominance in asia the plan calls for a shift to special forces operations improve surveillance and cyber warfare capability alongside a slight reduction in ground forces there's got to reports there are still plenty of 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 syndrome seen space technology is to give the u.s. military this whole new shape which is the defense secretary said it will be nothing like the cold war or the post cold war military meaning they are moving

away from ground wars told words air wars toward the intelligence war so to speak the u.s. is pull troops out of iraq would feel less 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 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 results the new strategy will bring. kind of on their no two we spoke to or to use military and it is to seize the whole is the result of a power struggle between branches of the u.s. military and contract. this is a pseudo strategy that was lauded by the us military industrial complex that is where they're going to make money the united states has failed the troop intensive so-called coin in iraq and afghanistan it's the game is over so now they're shifting their attention to the high tech stuff this is how under the age of. their military contractors are going to make a mega huge bucks by provoking another arms race in a class sicko fashion against china a bomb is just a talking head for god's sake he's only signed up whatever has been done under the

intense turf battle between the u.s. army u.s. marine corps. navy and the air force so for the u.s. navy and for the u.s. air force they're the main winners in this they knew war for their shrinking you as budget. just hours after its on veiling the plan was already drawing the ire of peace groups around the world and many of them say the strategy is nothing but a military expansion disguised as a drawdown. 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 signaling 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. about later in the program for you this minute treatment in the middle east washington is sending thousands of troops to israel for a planned training exercise but the move sparks worries of a possible build up to an attack on iran. that's still to come but first a stellar beginning and no less spectacular decline ten years on and the euro is in real trouble with member countries played by deepening debt and widespread disorder it means that what began as a project to establish an economic european superstate is now quickly becoming its very undoing. reports from brussels. the birth of an ambitious project a common currency celebrated with no less than the big bang. theory the beginning of a strong europe you're. back to the war the better.

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 the 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 all 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 sign 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 so 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 my answer would be yes they can't bring themselves to admit that it was a mistake and so i'm afraid we risk the very thing they purport to fear which is a disorderly breakup of the euro caused by having tried to keep it together for too long downgrades almost certainly i think you'll see a french downgrade i still think this is solvable if the political will is shown in certain member states to allow for what is called solidarity in europe and if not if not we are in for a huge huge recession in europe sitting my prediction that at least greece will leave the euro in the next year and what happens beyond that is unpredictable euro watchers may have divergent views of the single currencies future but it seems whichever way the euro goes it won't be painless does or cilia r.t.

brussels. a happier tale later this hour as we profile another successful ex-pat business here in russia that was dreamt up on the canvas and high up in the hills. we literally wrote our business plan in the ten you know between two thousand and five thousand six hundred meters so maybe that's why our business plan for our. not enough parts of today's pathfinder is an american entrepreneur whose business in russia is definitely going up hill plus. this but it is an example of a failed meeting between an outside culture and a native people. r.t. office your view from the inside help ancient communities here in russia are struggling to keep their traditional way of life on line. the u.s. is moving thousands of its troops to israel for a planned joint exercises the comes against a backdrop of increasing tensions in the persian gulf over iran's threat to block

the crucial hormuz strait some analysts are voice for as it could be part of a buildup to a military strike on iran and all of these paula who's in jerusalem is following developments well certainly people here are concerned by the latest developments they come at a particularly sensitive time in the region as the american president barack obama has signed into law sanctions that will make it very difficult for countries to buy oil from iran and what we're hearing from the israeli military is that it will reportedly be holding its biggest military drill ever with the united states and what's important to note is that we're not talking here of only a military exercise we're talking about the deployment of thousands of american troops into israel what we're hearing from both sides is if they will be testing various missile systems against rockets and against missiles what we're hearing though from the iranian officials is that they believe that this is the latest and most blatant sign that israel is planning to attack iran and attack at some time

soon these really. of course denying this their announcement comes just ten days after the rain ians held a military exercise near the crucial strait of hormuz but the israelis say that this announcement that they'll be holding this joint exercise with the americans is unrelated to the iranian exercise tensions certainly are running high here in the region what we're hearing from tehran is that they believe that the european union is waging an economic war against it and this is in light of the e.u. constituting imposing sanctions against iranian oil export exports and indeed if this goes ahead it could be implemented by the end of january what we're hearing from iran is a threat that they in turn will close and block the oil trade through the crucial for moore's strait and they've also warned the american naval presence in and around the persian gulf certainly tehran is feeling the pinch of these sanctions that the international community has imposed and looking to impose against it the

currency dropped to a record low after the american president signed into law those sanctions so what we're hearing from iran is also that it's preparing its own naval exercises that these exercises will go ahead soon they're part of a series that has been dubbed the great prophet so certainly that has people both here in the region and in the international community concerned. talking to me a little earlier and jamaal of the of the national iranian american council in washington claims the actions of america and israel indicate that they are preparing for war against iran which could descend into a massive middle east conflict. we're getting closer and closer to war with iran. anybody who argues that this kind of extraordinary confluence of events planned exercises by the u.s. and israel the exercises that iran was doing in the in the persian gulf we have sanctions in place with no diplomacy the only way that that is through confrontation back in september the u.s.

actually provided israel with an advanced radar and for the first time actually deployed. permanently deployed u.s. troops to israel that was a small contingent of couple hundred troops what we see now though is this much larger exercise not unprecedented but definitely something that is going to have an impact right now as we see this sort of tit for tat confrontation between the u.s. and iran the idea is that were there to be a massive war in the middle east presumably with iran that we would be ready to set up command within israel and actually have israel set up a command center in europe at the u.s. european command iranian officials have said this they're going to consider any strike by israel a strike by the united states. up next series about the risk takers from around the world who took a chance by setting up business in russia and that's still reaping the rewards and today find is an american woman whose company helps to restraint from the track.

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 tent 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 let's say competitors who are you know our top consultants or 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 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 heavy 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 caucasus 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 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'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 i 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 but 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 my missing and also around russia again it's another area of growth we have a lot of foreigners who want to come to russia most important thing is having the right business partners. 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 like 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. always argue. because i love it i really do people

ask you oh you know how can you see these two living in russia all the time and i said because every day still now you know never never know what's going to happen it's like or maybe it's not always a good thing sometimes it's a bad thing but there are always lots of surprises you never ever ever board. just. twenty two minutes past the hour here now in moscow let's see what else is making headlines right now in our world update in turkey a former chief of staff has been arrested after being accused of leading a terror organization and planning to bring down the government general ilk of does believe is the most senior official in the dock in a series of investigations into alleged anti authority plots in the country the rest comes after three elections reshuffle the power structure in the country's government. thousands of people are taking to the streets in the capital of yemen demanding the president steps down the position leaders say they have strong doubts that he'll resign despite a deal being struck back in november that agreement stipulated the president should

have handed over power to his vice president in exchange for immunity from prosecution. but now it's time for a close up series as we continue to explore russia and bring its most spectacular corners closer to you and this week our team has ventured to part of the country's far east the. region. this is russia's melting pot of cultures with all sorts of customs and traditions mixed into an amazing blend as artie's tom barton discovered sometimes it's hard to adapt old habits to the pace of modern day life. 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 oldest of the new most nanae families are happy for us to teach our native culture here at the village hall there is a relatively large population of now and i and that's helped conserve some of the traditions of the central to the nano way of life has always been fishing the russians brought with 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 froyo them boil them smoke them and dry them we are all sorts of fish. but 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 their native ways the orit's were also a native fishing people now their fishing boats lie broken and unused 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 orit's children soon drop out of school unemployment and alcoholism are rife you think that if we tore away their culture and implanted ours would 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 walk he wants work but there's no jobs and in the neighboring town he would need to go there every day but it's not far he would need to pay for the boss 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 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 tom barton r.t.

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had a family i lived in a fairly nice community was it which was an upscale it was just like you know archie bunker society ok then they started showing up here what happened was my company decided i could get cheap labor and they got rid of us george these are long rows in the 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 laws i figure it's here's one of the major trails in the united states and. i watch and they run run down my property and something about this noise. bothers a little mean that cockroaches from coming over the wire is protecting the country i'm the kind of guy who doesn't mind it is pants dirty so i come out here you know

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free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media dog r.t. dot com. top stories navas are here now to suspected suicide bomb attack targeting a police bus ripped through a residential part of the syrian capital with up to twenty five killed it comes amid growing opposition calls for the overthrow of president assad by military means. a bomber announces an end to a rock star occupations to focus on increasing u.s. influence in asia with extra emphasis on domination and unconventional warfare plus . iran is calling the proposed oil embargo and economic more a strong reaction of the latest in a series of intensified military and diplomatic.