this is. that we can do. the shocking footage apparently showing u.s. marines desecrating afghan bodies but spears it's actually helping terrorists recruit new members. here watching artie's weekly news if you're very warm welcome to. tensions between iran and the united states increased dramatically this week tehran blames the west for orchestrating the assassination of one of its nuclear scientists on wednesday america is also pushing hard for an oil export embargoed on iran over its nuclear program but terror on threatening to block vital maritime trade routes in sponsor is going to teach you can has the story. the cold run of tension between iran and the west is simmering. it seems the slightest increase of heat could make it boil

over into an all out confrontation. where we'll be that boiling point the point of no return we're getting closer and closer to war with iran the iranians are playing with fire problems in a crisis if you get where any small thing can really set it off and it doesn't quote washington that the international nuclear watchdog these i'm sorry closely monitoring iran's nuclear activities are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon no but we know that they're trying to develop a nuclear capability and that's what concerns us and our red line to iran is do not develop a nuclear weapon iran's main source of livelihood its oil exports is in danger the u.s. is imposing fresh sanctions that will dramatically complicate transactions that you grand central bank iran is also close to losing europe as a customer the reason that this is happening is that this is the logical conclusion

of our current strategy against iran we have sanctions in place with no diplomacy the only way that that and is through confrontation cornered by crippling sanctions iran's threatening to block the strait of hormuz a vital artery through which a sixth of the world's oil is shit the u.s. replied by moving its pensively to the region and saying if iran goes forward they will attack experts say the policy of isolating iran may lead to other threats from tehran moment and the possibility that one day they will go through with their threats but washington signals that it's ready or it wants everybody to believe that it's ready could weigh up we had to without using nuclear weapons ourselves take out their their nuclear capability well i certainly want them to believe that that's the case well is that if i absolutely want them to believe that that's the thing that secretary would you add anything to that some believe. it's just a war of words and neither side will go for an all out conflict considering what it

is that it will be for the whole region frankly speaking this tension is artificial it doesn't have to happen it doesn't need to exist the iranians would do themselves an enormous favor by saying unless. we would do ourselves a favor by ignoring most of it all of this i was sadly i think is connected to israel and the israeli fear of iran for rhetorical reasons war the military ones it may be a war of words but actions are already showing thousands of u.s. troops are being deployed to israel an american citizen has been sentenced to death in iraq and convicted of espionage iran might feel cornered and therefore make big moves right now it's in a war of words but one bullet shot and the powder keg can blow up the question is what's going to provide that deadly spark i'm getting our reporting from washington r.t. . another country under increasing international pressure is syria because proposing

sending our troops to the country to stop the violence that shake me into the for me is the first leader of an arab league country to call for military intervention qatar which is a u.s. ally with one of the strongest advocates of regime change across the arab world despite being a been a key itself international affairs consultant and they've been used to hold on of the country's election syria democracy is hypocritical. now south is clearly not what you would call a democratic leader but within the arab context he should be not the worst one on the country now and what the arab league is doing i mean who does the arab league represent the back arraign the united arab emirates saudi arabia what are those do and they are few do monarchies and they are not the ones that should point a finger and south whether there is an international conspiracy where there are elements that point out and we did this part of it i think it's more complex than

just that there is also genuine popular revolt but it is absolutely sure that there are elements from outside who are taking abusing whatever there is living among the syrian people for their own purposes that is absolutely. turkey also stepped up pressure on its neighbor at the beginning of the week where for national takes a look at why syria's one time ally is now advocating sending in troops. to the bloody state is calling the syrian crisis mounting a crime and so she is a growing violence may start spreading beyond the country's borders especially with its close neighbor turkey wants to close friends too but now a harsh critic of damascus on. syria's first priority should be to listen to its people and meet their demands or not to denounce others instead of massacring its people we should listen to them. so glitter glue is

a harsh critic himself but he says he's criticizing the turkish government ankara is on the side with the free syrian army and the syrian national council and military and diplomatic forces and overthrowing the regime of bashar assad it supports a buffer zone and a humanitarian corridor which some fear could bring turkish troops to syrian soil what does that mean according to international law it means aggression against a country it means war but any intervention would be different from the one in libya since russia and china have made it clear new war no fly zone resolutions which means their own vision of players like turkey increases dramatically but for new claims and korea's behavior is irresponsible and risky it has larger implications beyond the bilateral context of turkey syria as such the situation in syria must be handled with great care by all powers and unfortunately

i don't see that cache. sufficiently especially on the part of our government. works with a middle eastern studies center based and kyra it's sponsored by the turkish foreign ministry to how to shape policy and its opinion on syria it's clear syria is killing people. not always that's clear nobody has objectively information what is going on in syria the center specialists haven't been to syria from over here it to me is the picture they paint for officials in ankara isn't likely to be accurate on the technology changing you know when you look at the photographs or the videos coming from these governorates you can easily see that there is something going on with the sources of these videos are often questionable so it's easy to be misled to get a false picture of what's really happening but there does. researchers from coming

to firm conclusions military operations this is the last option which turkey does not want to see but this is an option it may have declared it doesn't work a military solution to the syrian crisis but turkey hasn't ruled it out either plain and if game if there is massive migration from its troubled neighbor turkey says it will have to protect its own people and fish really and currencies it wants peace and stability in the region its troops are ready just kilometers from the border with syria. r.t. turkey. but on r.t. later we hear from jean shop the author of dictatorship to democracy described by some as the blueprint for nonviolent revolutions coming up in about twenty minutes we are asking whether his concept is up to reality. as they go into a civil war or foreign intervention in syria many many many more will die it's pretty clear that the syrian opposition absolutely refuses to talk to the

government don't you think it deepens the crisis adds to the violence do you go with the big you have to throw it out but that situation basically rules out nonviolent struggle that you were talking about it provokes while it is causing the regime. use violence maybe. so people should be dying in the name of revolution is that what you're saying you seem to have a belief there. are a powerful country and no i just fear bloody mess instead of the ideal a nonviolent third that you're writing about in the book. europe's debt management got a cold shower from a major ratings agency this week essentially being told that the austerity they're imposing on people isn't working standard and poor's though it nine countries

scores with france and austria stripped of their top aaa status but reaction around the euro zone was mixed with some expressing disbelief from others like germany's foreign minister calling for europe to have its own ratings agency chancellor merkel said there's a long road ahead when it comes to rebuilding investor confidence right now and notice wait to see how the world stock markets respond on monday john locke learned from the institute for democracy in paris says europe's leaders have become accustomed to blaming the ratings agencies for their troubles. downgrading shows that those strongest countries are not as strong as we thought they were even austria has been downgraded so this idea that a call europe can somehow save the periphery even that is not tenable and it's true that these agencies are not above reproach they've made a lot of mistakes in the past and goodness knows the financial services industry including the ratings agencies is far from perfect but i think that european

leaders are being completely paranoid when they blame the ratings agencies for their problems any fool can see that there is a massive debt problem in europe the fact is there's been a lull in the crisis but that was really to do with the christmas or new year holidays they have assessed the situation and they have come to the conclusion so many other people that the situation in the eurozone is on top. and i think when the euro finally collapses as it will do surely within i would think probably the next year that we will see this day this announcement that downgrading of france or as having been one of the decisive moments. for germany came out of a downgrade sweep unscathed keeping its aaa rating and investment analyst see that as a significant power shift in the eurozone and the situation in france as finances is that they've basically been borrowing money on their every year budget since the mid one nine hundred seventy i mean it's absolutely ludicrous and unfortunately all

good things must come to an end and actually they've only been lucky because of economic growth in europe as a whole and the fact that there are economic powerhouses being strapped to the ultimate powerhouse of europe which is germany and that's why this is such an emotional moment of the european experiment because not everyone across the border into germany from france is going to be looking dining on their neighbors and saying why should we germany and up being alone amongst the very elite club of nations that have got their aaa the top. and indeed our french partners the germans are going to see it is no longer the perfect bride it's tarnished goods. still ahead this hour time for a change i mean the turbulence you feel we saw the deadly riots in kazakhstan elementary poting opens on the side of sheffield. and ukraine to find out why many a one right there ready for the football championships i love this predicts the

huge cost of the event the payoff. but group of american marines filmed urinating on the corpses of taliban fighters have been identified punishment as promised but still little to quell the growing disgust felt around the well this week regional experts say it could mean that u.s. soldiers kaante serving in afghanistan will end up paying the price let's not forget that the americans came to understand with the explicit objective also off transforming this country into a more humane country into a democracy and we are seeing it happening right now with the appearance of this kind of a video it's the opposite and it is having an impact let's not forget that this is a region where religious values are really very deep deeply entrenched and the way you treat bodies and the way you treated dead it's something that is treated very secretly here and with this video you can you can rest assured that this will have

an impact in terms of the kind of reaction the kind of backlash to this will generate this video will generate against the very. the american soldiers who are there right now in a lot of stuff it really in danger is their life so what it is fair to say that with this video surfacing the lives of american soldiers in afghanistan have become more let's say in a more precarious situation than they were before this video. well the for him i did physically touch more young people to join the ton about and i'm going to afghanistan war veteran jake the better says that coupled with previous of pieces this latest scandal is simply helping terrorists human this just to remind people of a few incidents that occurred a while back there was the burning of the koran that happened with. terry jones and then there was the great incident and before then there was the decision to invade

iraq that had nothing to do with nine eleven so all of these these situations pile on and they add up and what happens is al-qaeda and other terrorist organizations and then using this video and they put it in their recruiting videos the end up on you tube and across the jihad of web channels and they end up reading anti-american sentiment this is the hugest recruitment for al qaida that we can do what it can do nobody in the united states military is trained to pee and dead people this is the behavior of ill disciplined soldiers under my opinion are probably also separate from of severe amount of p.t.s.d. from long ended war and what happens when you so. you end dehumanizing other human beings in the battlefield it's and it's unfathomable how pathetic this is become because the war hasn't been brought to it and like obama said he was going to do and what we're seeing abu ghraib has happened twice now in afghanistan. well not everyone in america is outraged by what the marines were filmed doing as we have on

line a c.n.n. contributor praised the troops actions as saying she would do the same situation details don't see dot com right now. a leaked cia report shows that the war in afghanistan isn't still meet with the taliban determined to make a comeback as soon as nato troops leave it's out all odds with the recent optimism from the defense department twenty fourteen maybe the withdrawal date but american think tank on peace in afghanistan but is the actual put out will take far longer it has been ten years that has not unified the country i said should have been it looks like there's no chance for the americans to see a government standing on its feet however this could prolong americans be on a stand for quite a number of years i would say and the years are unknown at this time but it looks

like it's going to be a long time because there's a corrupt government cannot function in the way that it is right now the fact is that there's a friction in the white house right now that some more say no basically the pentagon going military is the one that's calling up that same day you know we should not really rush in ploy fast as we can. but after ten years of war in afghanistan the u.s. reached another dubious milestone as the world's most notorious prison chalked up ten years of existence on tunnel based on a verse with world wide protests and fresh calls for president obama to keep his election promise to shut it down but with washington recently passing a law to indefinitely detain anyone he deems a terror threat calls to close guantanamo affording on deaf ears the recent reports . one zero zero zero zero zero one zero zero zero abdel moneim am absolutely today is probably just another day for the inmates of guantanamo bay they may not even

know that people around the world are campaigning for them but as far afield as london demonstrations are held to demand the release of the hundred seventy one men still held without trial in the cuban camp after ten years one of those men is shaka omer who's earned the dubious distinction of being the last british resident held in guantanamo he was in afghanistan or nine eleven he says doing charity work digging wells and building a girls' school in kabul. when the u.s. invasion began almost went into hiding from an increasingly wary northern alliance but his freedom didn't last shuckers supporters maintain he was sold for a bounty went into the hands of the northern alliance warlords basically and they actually thought oh the americans my goodness it will save me from the torture that

had months of torture by them but no he was transported to time and there he has remains despite president obama's original election pledge to close guantanamo altogether despite being cleared for release and despite being a legal permanent resident in the u.k. with family here in london which includes one son he's never even seen and fall for moving closer to being freed shuckers supporters see worrying developments in the us is attitude to extrajudicial detention obama recently signed the national defense authorization act which places domestic terror investigations into the hands of the military and extends a ban on transferring prisoners out of one ton of there i'm very sorry indeed president obama for reasons. lack of political will or he would say complete inability to live. up to that promise. is now facing to book

american citizens. in military commissions which are very far from being fed to. the british government has requested the release of but there's been no movement on the case since two thousand and seven meanwhile as his family grows up without him he lives out his life in a tiny windowless not knowing whether he can expect to be released. when the u.s. also saw its share of guantanamo bay protests but thomas will never know if the several detainees that claims president obama doesn't have the will to close the trail this is a political problem in a democracy when certain people are playing with fear the republican party is basically playing on fear to influence her constituents and in the face of that fear the obama administration hasn't had the courage to oppose it or the courage to

get the job done other things like the economy you have seen more important it's a shame it's a challenge in a democracy and we need to continue to fight to have this close it's a stain on the reputation the united states is a horrible place. i can explore stories in depth on our website with the much more lined up at r.t. dot com it was like the titanic sank passengers aboard the luxury cruise liner which ran aground off the italian coast leaving three people dead and dozens still missing. on the final ball to dispute the probe that's been circling the earth for several weeks after the venter cheaper right move it should come down shortly in the pacific ocean and discover more on that.

people in kazakhstan are heading to the polls a parliamentary election which show deals for next august but president not survive dissolved the one party parliament in the autumn and brought the date forward actions come a month after deadly riots the city of. my state of emergency still thinks at least sixteen people were killed and dozens injured when striking oil workers clashed with security forces in pay but experts say the early poll shows that the circle for it is realize the time for a change in the country is now. in general i think the president wants more here he wants to have more dialogue between. palestine is in many ways an exception or centrally share because it was a relative economic success story over the political resume regime is march soft

there on the in neighboring uzbekistan it's certainly not democratic as the regime in kyrgyzstan but on the other hand kyrgyzstan. which. like you. he avoided so it was a relatively successful country until now not very typical for this region but of course you know the same brands that we see in kyrgyzstan i think that every quarter about the same tranz may reveal themselves and gallops on what we saw the government and the body of our president that are buying they're trying to. do. to preempt any sort of destabilize asian before it indeed walks the country that's why they have only elections and that's why they tried to react to the challengers. every new day. you're watching r t live from moscow coming up in the next hour turning then those is our technology be the airport for they could force that can

successfully sniff out tension trouble travelers. now people in the ukraine are worried their country may drop the ball in hosting football's you know twenty twelve finals i think fans attack on issues like police corruption and poor infrastructure of xers he discovered there's also concern that the authorities are splashing up more the toilets then they can afford. the incredible adventures of food bullheads from extreme accommodation to driving through impassable roads this is the scenario some believe awaits fans who will flock to ukraine for the euro twenty twelve tournament gave based journalists organized this photo exhibition trying to voice a rather pessimistic message about the upcoming football coach. we're being told by the government that everything has been built by the fans will face those

problems the twee ordinary craniums face every day very poor stray petty issues bribery by the police and terrible medical facilities i'm afraid it could be a major failure. at first glance such concerns may seem laughable even in the darkest times of financial troubles the euro twenty twelve projects remained top priority when almost all construction projects were halted roads airports and stadiums never stopped being built after a string of stadium opening ceremonies in ukraine you a few chiefs are now completely sure the country is ready to host the tournament but this is just one example of what really worries some in ukraine this broken road is only several hundred meters away from a vital highway and there is a slim chance it would ever be repaired before or after the tournament kicks off experts believe ukraine simply has no money for that and the euro twenty twelve

will not change the situation. of the ukraine is spent fourteen billion dollars on euro twenty twelve projects but we predicted to earn only half a billion from the tournament twenty eight times less everyone knew that it's a typical situation especially faced in europe the question is if we could afford such spending in hard times like this. tournament organizers brush all this criticism aside saying. regardless of how much money your twenty twelve brings the country is building a bright future for itself for the first time in twenty years history people get new airports new roads new terminals everything is new we believe that people who is in ukraine they will come again the ways of ukraine so this is our main goal a special euro twenty twelve clock was installed in central kiev to count down the minutes to june skew cough and despite some skepticism the majority of ukrainians are relieved to see taking in their capital city not anywhere else with all the

airports and stadiums springing up it's hard to believe now that almost a year ago the tournament could have moved to another country by you a far as ukraine was not doing good enough now there is no doubt whatsoever it will be held here but one question still remains whether it would become an opportunity of a lifetime or a luxury this economically hit country could not have afforded. ski r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. but i'll be back with the headline shortly are stating it.

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jollity life on the go. video on demand parties my vote comes an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. book about the stories that shaped this week tensions between iran and the u.s. intensified to tehran they mean the west to the killing of nuclear scientists a washington is threatening action if iran blocks a bottle into the pending sanctions. qatar becomes the first arab league member to call for troops to be sent into syria to tackle the ongoing violence there the proposal is being labeled hypocritical coming from a monarchy preaching a regime change elsewhere.