as a shield against the winter chill. you're watching aren't you coming to you live from moscow it's ten am here on marina joshie europe stop power a couple have called on the euro zone to boost growth to stop the debt crisis from spreading and ensure the very survival of the region's single currency at a meeting in berlin angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy said it was just as urgent to reach a fast agreement with greece's private creditors before a more bailout money can be handed over athens has insisted it faces default and could have to abandon the euro if it doesn't get more cash by spring the e.u. now needs to iron out a treaty agreed upon last month which includes the threat of sanctions tougher surveillance and makes budget rule breakers answerable directly to brussels but many euro skeptics say putting more trust in brussels would be an error as artists

are so you know reports. when times are this hard every cent counts for the seventy two year in a row the european court of auditors refused to give the e.u. accounting books a clean a bill of health the court found that in two thousand and ten three point seven percent of the e.u.'s budget was spent in error that's four point five billion euros essentially wasted juta mistakes like an eligible or incorrect calculation of costs going to e.u. co finance projects or breaches of public procurement rules to be fair brussels gets criticized because persons you criticize. that said though it should forgive them for having that error rate there is a feeling that it's not unjustified that in europe. brussels the commission is to should have not taken the really hard look at their budgets and done the hard cutting that a lot of member states have in fact the e.u. commission and parliament wanted to have some one hundred thirty three billion

euros to spend next year but settled on one hundred twenty nine after tough negotiations with member states well that's still an increase of two percent because the e.u. budget uniquely continues to grow it only ever goes in one direction what they call a cut him means a slight you small increase and they would have wanted in an ideal world there are two kinds of money in the world there's your money and there's my money you know what we're much more careful with the second than with the first trouble is that here in brussels it's all somebody else's money mostly their money. which is why criticism rose with the budgets committee approved thirty eight million euros for the purchase of three buildings to increase office space for any other stuff and the area behind me is a property that will be acquired by the european parliament the project for seize the demolition of an existing building a big ration i would know what the total cost one hundred twenty five million euros fifteen million of which will come up from the budget. critics cry foul of the

project supporters stand their ground when there is a new member states you need new space it is ridiculous to say that we don't need more space when we have more stuff but if you say that you mean to say that stuff is sitting on each of those needs while working there we have this responsibility to do legislation for five hundred million people in a proper way again there is an organ for this institution do need facilities the timing is just horrible and because the austerity measures impose a lot of member states the fact that brussels is plowing on with grand plans for you know these beautiful new buildings just smells bad yet it's not just about new buildings for your kratz that raises eyebrows. how hard is it to just come up with with receipts when they have one and they have experience base for this sort of course of hers in fact some say the allure of being

a euro kratom also be hurting poor member states losing their best and brightest to brussels or just people in those countries the entrepreneurs the people who could have done so much making things inventing things selling things creating businesses in the states because nothing can compete with the advantages of being on the e.u. payroll they all start gravitating towards by that directly to brussels bureaucracy or in direct as the saying goes if you can't beat them join them. but that's clearly not a win win solution for everyone. just sort of our team brussels. merkel and sarkozy have locked horns over a tax on transactions made by financial institutions france wanted in place as early as possible but germany says the charge should only come into force one all e.u. states agreed to it leaders are now working to eliminate the most divisive issues before the next e.u. white summit at the end of the month but financial advisor patrick young says the

meetings are basically a waste of time. the only thing that's growing at the moment i suspect is going to be the waistlines of all the civil servants and ministers who are summiting all over the place and eating endless numbers of cream bones and delicacies in each of the different locales they visit the truth is that absolutely nothing has been done in order to try and actually fundamentally of the problem and again what we've seen is a sticking plaster complied to all of the different problems that are going on mrs merkel saying but we'd like to keep everybody in the euro and we hope to keep everything together and we'll work very hard to do that but you know what the problem is it doesn't matter how much you talk about something it's actions that are coming to the moment all we have is words if the euro actually breaks up which is unfortunately quite possible at the moment i'm not saying it's probable and i'm not saying it's definite but it's possible if the eurozone breaks up that's going to give on certainty uncertainty means people don't know whether to order things for their company it also means that individuals don't know whether to spend money

at the shops it means ultimately that all of that little grease the oils the wheels of commerce critics start and that's the real problem here what may happen is alternately we may see the i.m.f. the international monetary fund ultimately trying to come in and stapled together some sort of a solution whatever happens there's a lot of uncertainty ahead and that's got to be worrying because uncertainty spells recession and recession is not going to be good for anybody in the world who needs to work for a living. still i have for you this hour here in our t.v. political wrestling it's a fight for voters and ratings for the republican candidates in new hampshire as the brady charters policies of top gays and guns ahead of a key primary. frontline in the war against terror we look at the new species of terrifying dogs bred specifically to sniff out explosives in the most extreme conditions the details are just ahead. the u.s. has slammed iran for beginning to bridge uranium at

a new on the ground facility southwest of the capital tehran the state department called it a further escalation in iran's violation of un resolutions u.s. and its allies believe iran is building nuclear weapons something to iran denies america's ally france has warned of a response more intense and severe than anything previously a u.s. general also said washington would be prepared to wipe out the rons nuclear facilities and other battlefront between the two is the strait of hormuz in the persian gulf tehran's threaten to close it if the west blogs iran's oil exports as laid out in recent sanctions the pentagon says it could use force to reopen it iran plans to hold a fresh round of naval drills in the area but some experts say iran isn't to blame for the escalation. iran hasn't attacked any other nation for hundreds of years the united states has form on attacking another nation every couple of years continues to attack all the time i think we know who's provoking this latest spat the united

states is a net exporter of oil apparently first time in sixty years so presumably they're enjoying the oil prices as they spike with every new threat for united states makes against masses of ordinary men women and children in other countries as to what it thinks about its service men and women who fight on its behalf they don't much care about them either one must remember that leon panetta the format of the cia now secretary of defense is a lot of us agree defense is a lot i'm not saying that i'm really repeating the former house speaker nancy pelosi we know that panetta lied about his involvement in torture other democratic colleagues in congress also called him a liar at that time so as for more on this the united states seemingly just wanting prices while at the same time threatening people and the developing world the rest of the world the major superpower. in the world they don't like what

the united states is saying that sort of the united nations. says something truly open answer and obama says foreign policy is in tatters whether the united states really can cause a play to war with iran. i really don't think so at the moment. and then threats from the us are a new president mahmoud ahmadinejad has turned to south america and made venezuela the first stop of the store of the continent and ours and critic of washington but his wailing leader which obvious defended ahmadinejad he said there was no proof that iran is trying to develop atomic weapons and that it's the u.s. that poses a global threat and the iranian president said to iran and caracas should resist mean an arrogant united state both leaders also joke that their relationship shouldn't cause any concern iran and venezuela are a long time trading partners but it is odd will also visit nicaragua cuba and ecuador. along with mahmoud have met in a jogger chavez is

a leader washington likes to paint as an enemy of america but there are thousands in the u.s. have a lot of warm feelings for the flamboyant but as well in the arena board nine explains. winter morning in the south bronx new york city outdoors the temperature is near freezing indoors. seventy seven year old alice many otis is bundled up brewing a pot of coffee and raising the heat just enough. to take the chill out of the air the retired grandmother of seven lives alone on a fixed income and each winter as federal programs continue to be slashed the struggle to afford comfort gets harder. and raving i mean all they do was raise raise raise raise and i mean it's the same dollar you get in so how far can you push it one hundred gallons of oil one hundred fifty gallons of oil is about. right now about close to six hundred dollars however venezuela has been

stepping in to make alice's life a bit easier by delivering one hundred gallons of free heating oil each winter she is a four year beneficiary of the citgo venezuela heating oil program which provides free heating oil to five hundred thousand poor americans living in low income neighborhoods and shelters throughout the country president chavez often demonized by washington help march the program in two thousand and five following hurricanes katrina and rita all i know is that he was caught and he was crying to the people of the united states and i'm sure he he he ruled differently like obama does differently and who will we to tell these people how they should live or how i mean are they going vay they are our country with their not being generous to give us what comes out of their earth at no charge so could you really have ill feelings

against them. i'm thankful for it. i really have in an interview with the venezuelan newspaper el universal america's leader well sort of expressing similar sentiments of gratitude president obama recently accused the chavez government were strict in human rights and taking frightening steps. democratic values the venezuelan leader didn't mince words while responding directly to his u.s. counterpart you know what obama i feel sorry for you just toss the black communities in your country what you mean to them you're the greatest disappointment of recent years the poor people of your country you're a great disappointment to them it's time that we stopped minding everybody else's business and took care of business we have children that are graduating from college with eighty ninety one hundred thousand dollars that they have to pay back its to p.t.

it's looming them just and they can't get a job a struggle getting that much harder in the land of opportunity arena r.t. neal. syria's president bashar assad will make a speech about the crisis in golfing the nation on tuesday even as activists claim government forces are continuing a brutal crackdown on protesters the country's opposition denounced the arab league observers missions currently in syria saying monitors are doing a little to resolve the conflict with hundreds reported killed since they arrived in the late december the government's opponents called on the un to help and the ten months of violence president assad is also coming under increasing pressure from neighboring states turkey says it feels threatened by the conflict and to take a leading role in dealing with it author jean sharp says the syrian opposition should stop calls for outside military interference because it never leads to democracy. i think. you know their intervention is very dangerous

and. if they be and and some syrians have been doing that that's very unfortunate because that will not help that we are not being a democracy that will be a big coup by the outside ok for. assuming you get rid of the old regime then the new regime may be heavily influenced by the powers that intervene the u.s. france or whoever that they will have a major say over that we're kind of a government happened in this out of the power of the syrian people and what you think should be the u.s. government should not be intervening military in the name of it so i was in democracy because it doesn't work and they can serve other objectives. and you can see the full interview with author gene shark in about fifteen minutes time here on our t.v. . republican presidential candidates in the u.s.

having been tearing political challenge off each other hand of a key primary in new hampshire on tuesday from dryer mitt romney has been mocked by use fellow republicans after he said he enjoyed firing people for the former massachusetts governor is so well i had an opinion polls with congressman ron paul and social conservative rick santorum some way behind in two t.v. debates ahead of the voting candidates kept away from me. political comedian dean told r.t. that by addressing issues like guns gays and abortion republicans are just fighting for ratings so it was good to be there trying to find something that sensational that's what the media does that's their job if it was a boring debate about economics how many people are going to watch it let's be honest it becomes bland and boring it's a lot of numbers most people including myself would struggle to understand what is going on but everyone understands abortion and gay marriage and contraception so

those are the easy issues it makes it easier for us to talk about them let's be honest let's talk about jobs let's talk about the economy i have to think the reality is that these republican candidates it's not an easy thing to have an answer they don't have an answer unemployment's gone down and picked up to over two thousand and ten point one percent it's still now in december to eight point five percent maybe obama's policies contribute maybe they don't maybe it's cyclical in any event the economy is improving and these republicans don't have answers so they want to tell what the social issues the heart issues the ones that make you go out and vote as you make you make phone calls to get people to come out to the polls they scare you it works before it works many times before the just trying to use the same play from the old republican playbook i think we're going to get back to the economy that's what americans want to hear when is president obama versus mitt romney at the that will be the issue it has to be that's the one we all want to hear about so i think for now this is a game they're running for republican nomination until the republican issues then we get the big battle the super bowl if you will that's we're going to hear the really should we want to hear about. as r.t.

dot com there's more news and analysis on the u.s. election so here's what you can find there at the moment. texas congressman anti-war advocate ron paul turns up here in new hampshire and pulls away from his rivals to become the only alternative to republican favorite mitt romney also a line. of polish prosecutor who was holding a news briefing when he asked journalists to leave the room and shot himself in the head for no apparent reason however he survived and the details are at r.t. dot com. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world north korea has announced a prisoner amnesty to celebrate the birth these of late leader kim jong il and his father it will come into effect on the first of february but it's not known how many prisoners will be released died on december the seventeenth leaving the nation under the control of his youngest son kim yano. international criminal court is

still waiting for information from levy on the status of colonel gadhafi son saif al islam the spy a deadline being set for tuesday the most prominent son of the late leader was captured in november while trying to flee libya site has been charged by the hague with crimes against humanity and is waiting for find out whether he will be out over. the stern of a stricken cargo ship off the coast of new zealand song after being broken apart by a storm over the weekend the may bow section of the vessel still remains wedged on a reef the greek island vessel ran aground and has since the tons of oil killing hundreds of sea birds in what has become the country's worst maritime disaster. series of bomb attacks in iraq have left seventeen data many more one that car bomb in their district of baghdad killed seven with several police officers among them

while south of baghdad shia build rooms were targeted by a roadside blast attacks aimed at shia muslims in both baghdad and so there in iraq killed seventy people last thursday. at one of moscow's busiest airports there's a new breed of crime fighter on the front lines of the war on terror they are able to work in the extreme hodder freezing cold to sniff out explosives wherever they are are all over went to see what they can do. among those four legged friends on the front line in the fight against terror these dogs are special breed part husky part jackal and it's their cute sense of smell which makes them perfect for sniffing out explosives in an airport or when it turns out that of all the canines it's the jackal that has the best sense of smell so it was logical to use that to improve the sense of smell and dogs basically are grafted a wild beast sense of smell into a domesticated animal of what their husky hurry to means that they can handle

temperatures as low as minus seventy degrees centigrade while the jackal side of the family provides them with equally impressive abilities in the heat their. jackals or some tropical animal that's used to high temperatures as an experiment we took these hybrids to the united arab emirates where they were able to work equal to two degrees centigrade they could walk on sand which was heated by the sun to sixty degrees ordinary dogs wouldn't be able to handle that to get a buddhist out of. the silly most dogs have two hundred and twenty million smell receptors forty four times more than a human this allows them to detect even trace amounts of explosive material making them invaluable for airports looking to put passengers at their ease but they are not ever working with these dogs among passengers makes people feel more secure in their ports this way passengers see that aeroflot give special attention to

security as for accuracy they've even detected gun powder residue on the clothes of hunters returning home. with the animals having to work in an environment filled with distracting sights sounds and smells it's important that the dogs and their handlers have a close relationship please give the lady anything there has to be trust between the two and the dog should feel absolutely free and shouldn't be pressured by excessive discipline the handlers. have to be extremely attentive they should notice and immediately respond to the dogs every motion and reaction you know this is the big fish and you might shoot. a false alarm is detected unless the north point five percent of searches making the dogs far more reliable than the best man made the texan device much of that is down to the breeding but a lot of training is required before they are ready to work amongst the public so while it doesn't take the dog long to find what was hidden underneath my seat but

it's all well and good doing it here on the training grounds how will they fare in the busy atmosphere of an international airport on an average day over one hundred thousand people pass through this terminal a cherry mitzvah airport plenty of distractions making it the perfect place to conduct a test this bike here contains around three grams of plastic explosive i'm going to go and hide somewhere here in the terminal while florida tries to track me down. for august sets about sniffing me out for finally chewed nose searching every nook and cranny in which a potentially dangerous package could be hidden when you see these hybrid dogs in action it's clear why they are so well suited to working in the airport some passengers don't even notice that they're part of their investigation. sure enough she finds me trying to check in for a flight but. well good. no matter how hard you try to hide if you

have explosives these amazing animals will find you. r.t. moscow. shortly we discuss the best way to bring democracy before the ad that will take a look at what's happening in the world of business is here. it's twenty four minutes past ten am here in moscow you're watching business on r.t. escalating tensions between iran and the west remain firmly on the size of investors some analysts speculate oil could jump to two hundred dollars a barrel of the worst scenario takes place but they parson from national straightly a bank says a price spike is unlikely. i think the very very close relationship between the external value of the u.s. dollar and oil has begun to slip over the course of the last few months if we remind ourselves of where we were three summers ago the oil price eight hundred

forty seven dollars per barrel exactly on the day when the euro dollar exchange rate sixty so we had a very weak u.s. dollar we had a very high oil price that relationship has held good over a long period of time now if it were based purely on that then we'd be looking today it's an oil price or around seventy or seventy five dollars so that suggests to me that a lot of the potential disruption that we hear talked about is already in the price and i doubt very much that we're going to see the sort of spike that some of the wilder analysts are talking about i think a lot of it is already in the price. now see how all is performing at the moment it's gaining value on tuesday due to not only tensions with iran but also and i'll be to consumer credit data from the united states light sweet as that just under one hundred two dollars a barrel brant is close to one hundred thirteen dollars. and now on to the

equity markets in asia where they're in the positive territory in tokyo than the case putting on just under half a percent the sour and hong kong the hang seng is more than one percent higher monday's meeting between german chancellor angela merkel and french president nicolas sarkozy when as most investors expected which is in itself good news. and the market here in moscow starting tuesday session in the while the r.t.s. is gaining almost three quarters of a percent then why six is putting on more than half a percent of the first hour of trade. today is the first day of work for many in russia after a long new year christmas holidays. but not for the local stock market this year for the first time the equity markets have traded during their traditional ten day break that means there is less catching up to do but even so i like but also from the to be capitals it will take some time for the markets to gain momentum it would

point to remain quite weak. russians tend to return from all these later of and they officially end and spoke with me in the first weeks as i was going to be lower most of the political risk has been played out so the dynamic of the russian stock market for will largely depend on how things develop in the new year mainly in european markets probably will be unlikely in russia specific news that will move the markets any meaningful way. and now on to other news british luxury car maker of walls royce has reported a record sales in two thousand and eleven but no place for them three and a half thousand cars the highest in its one hundred seven year history sales group particularly fast and germany and russia worth more than doubled. that's all the latest from the business team i'll be back in about fifteen minutes.

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world leaders. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got this huge earth covered. welcome back to watching our team live from moscow these are the top stories that you stop to raise to ensure a euro survival calling for a boost to growth to stop the debt contagion from spreading to angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy also want to push states firmly under the brussels umbrella but critics say it could be leaky with cash flowing to satisfy i don't like to technocrats. iran begins uranium enrichment at a secure on the ground facility to move the west as dobs provocative iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful and is threatening to.