workers. handout save the euro zone's ability to tackle the debt crisis grow as nine nations get their credit rating cut france losing its top notch status plus. forecasting live from moscow you're watching artie's weekly news review welcome tensions between iran and the united states increased dramatically this week tehran blames the west for orchestrating assassination of one of its nuclear scientists on wednesday america is also pushing hard for an oil export embargo on iran over its nuclear program but tehran threatening to block a vital maritime trade route in response artie's got a chicken as 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 question 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 is oil export is in danger the u.s. is imposing fresh sanctions that will dramatically complicate transactions through iran's 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 should the u.s. replied by moving its fiercely to the region and saying if iran goes for it 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 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 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 the rand 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 going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . but another country under increasing international pressure is syria with qatar

as we're proposing sending our troops to the country to stop the violence that shake the honeys the first leader of the country to call for military intervention qatar which is a u.s. ally has been one of the strongest advocates of regime change across the arab world despite being in the monica itself international affairs consultant that of a new hold on tape that the country's election syria democracy is often critical. now south is clearly not what you would call a democratic leader but within the hour context he is certainly not the worst one on the contrary i am a dad opening is doing i mean who does the arab league represent the back arraign the united arab emirates saudi arabia what are those do it there 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 who abuse abusing whatever there is living among the syrian people for their own purposes that is absolutely. turkey also stepped up pressure its neighbor at the beginning of the week paraffin takes a look at why syria's one time ally is not ok to sending in troops. to the bloody status quo the syrian crisis mounting a crime and 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 harsh critique of damascus on. syria's first priority should be to listen to its people and meet their demands 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 aimed at 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 help shape policy and its opinion on syria it's clear syria is killing their own people. not always that's clear nobody has objectively information what is going on in syria the center specialists haven't been to syria for over year it to me is the picture they paint for officials in ankara isn't likely to be accurately on the technology at 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 that the sources of these videos are often questionable so it's easy to be misled you 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 welcome 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 marc fisher and korea insists it wants peace and stability in the region its troops are already just kilometers from the border with syria. r.t. turkey. nato we hear from the author of what's been described as the printer for non violent revolutions next starkey in shafiq strains of whether his concept of peaceful revolt is any match for the reality of the arab spring. summer in kazakhstan which many see is next in line for regime change to find out why that's unlikely despite the similarities to other troubled nations. europe's debt

management got a cold shower from a major ratings agency this week especially being told that the austerity they're imposing on people isn't working standard and poor's lowered nine countries scores france and austria stripped of their top aaa status reaction around the euro zone was mixed with some expressing disbelief and others like germany's foreign minister calling for europe to have its own ratings agency chancellor merkel said that there is a long road ahead when it comes to rebuilding investor confidence is now in ever sweet to see how world stock markets will respond on monday john locke and from the institute for democracy in cooperation paris says the ups and 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 as have many other big. he told that the situation in the eurozone is untenable 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 just a this announcement the downgrading of france or as having been one of the decisive moments where germany came out of the downgrade sweep unscathed keeping its aaa rating and investment analysts see that as a significant power shift in the usa 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 struck to the ultimate power out 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 a low that amongst the very elite club of nations that have got their aaa the top grid rating and indeed our french partners the germans are going to see it is no longer the perfect bride it's tarnished goods. well still to come few here in r t the soldiers serving the seeds of their own destruction rather of american film.

about the points of putting their fellow troops lives at risk. and turning away from technology exports of duty with eyes on our four legged friends to sniff out potential trouble for travelers. people in kazakhstan are heading to the polls but part of ensured action comes just a month after the country was shaken by the deadly riots the town. was striking oil workers clashed with security forces of a poor pay the polls were originally shettles for next august president survive dissolved parliament in the autumn in brought the date forward move is seen as an attempt to broaden parliamentary representation in previously one party house and as oksana boyko reports the time seems right for change in a country that doesn't want to fight on its restive neighbors footsteps. it wasn't

for the snow and the freezing temperatures stands capital of astronaut could easily be mistaken for one of the gleaming cities of the gulf a village just two decades ago it is now an oasis in the desert but it's architecture having a distinct arriving flavor like many arab countries kazakhstan's primary sources of income our oil and gas and it is that x. word that allowed this country the luxury of building its new capital city from scratch in fact kazakstan is now producing about as much oil as lieve beer was churning out prior to its civil war and the similarities don't and here both kazakstan and libya have predominantly muslim populations both were considered still words of calm in their turbulent neighborhoods and both have experienced decades of rule by just one man in terms of style that's fast no short on the survivor is the exact opposite of erratic more market afy and of course he's still in power but the libyan scenario no longer seems improbable in kazakstan even to

its leader some young people are fascinated with what's happening in the world right now in africa and europe but we have to explain to the new generation that blindly believes everything that's told that there are those who envy our well being the country's heart evolutions took place have gone back ten to fifteen years economically speaking the town of john knows and is rightfully called catholic stands all capital but it's no match for glistening asked. despite producing much of the country's hydrocarbons for decades it's been poor and neglected. the uprising in western kazakstan has smouldered since last spring but culminated in december in a weekend of clashes with police that left seventeen dead and more than one hundred injured as the protests spread to other cities. in the wake of the arab spring but it was fueled happened in arab countries. definitely scared because of the thirties the first thing they did when their pricing began was to switch off my bio

networks and the internet connection because the people even demanded it out loud because of the riches decided to offer political reforms the people are now going to the polls to elect a new parliament recent constitutional amendments guarantee they'll be more than one party that has been up until now the challenge now is to keep all the good things stability prosperity. and of the same time allow the society to evolve. meanwhile their wages have approved millions of dollars worth of programs to keep their breasts to cd basically to create new jobs between the two. presidents called associates pointed to oversee the turbulent region in a few years and will make some cities in the gulf pale in comparison. come here in a few years and you won't recognize this city while the arab spring may have

inspired protesters around the world it's also taught authorities valuable lessons on how to contain those rallies like all rulers and those that are by would much rather learn from the mistakes of others especially if they come at a price paid by gadhafi it's not a boycott artsy kazakstan. and there will of course be following at the parliamentary election in kazakhstan to bring you the latest news along with some expert analysis throughout the day. now that a fresh scandal involving the u.s. military isn't helping us to billet in the country either a group of american marines filmed a unit on the corpses of taliban fighters and identified and punishment as promised but it's doing little to quell the ground discussed felt around the world this week usually experts say could mean that u.s. soldiers caught is serving in afghanistan but 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 what we're seeing happening right now with the appearance of this kind of a video is 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 is it is 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. of the video also

chicot faris it will encourage more young people to join the top on and al qaeda afghanistan war veteran better says that coupled with previous abuses this latest scandal is simply helping terrorists new members. just to remind people of a few incidents that occurred a while back there was the burning of the koran that happened with. jerry jones and then there was a 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 across the jihad of web channels and they end up reading anti-american sentiment this is the hugest recruitment for al qaeda that we can do what it can do nobody in

the united states military is trained to pee on dead people this is the behavior of ill discipline soldiers under my opinion are probably also separate from of severe amount of p.t.s.d. for a long ended war and what happens when you stop. you and dehumanizing other human beings in the battlefield it's. 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. but not everyone in america is outraged by what means what film doing is on t.v. is on the line a contributor on a c.n.n. news channel praised the troops actions as saying she would do the same in their situation. also ten years of war in afghanistan the u.s. reached another dubious milestone as well as most notorious prison chalked up to ten years of existence one ton of bays and of this he was with well protests and

fresh calls for president obama to keep his election promise to shut it down but with washington recent the possibility indefinitely detain anyone it deems a terror threat calls to close guantanamo one of them defense smith reports. one zero zero zero zero one zero zero abdomen and we are now freely today's 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 that my goodness it will save me from the torture that he's had lots of torture by them but no he was transported to a toddler 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 see 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 tunnel that i'm very sorry indeed president obama for reasons. lack of political will or he would say. inability to deliver has not. lived up to that promise and indeed is now bracing to book american citizens. in military commissions which are very far from being fair trials with. 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 cell not knowing whether he can ever expect to be released r.t. london. for us also saw its share of. protests but thomas.

detainees there president obama doesn't have the will to close the jail. 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 their 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 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 cause it's a stain on the reputation of the united states it's a horrible place. where they can spoil all our stories in depth on our website with much more lined up at our t. dot com it is like the titanic saying passengers aboard the luxury cruise night in which run aground off the coast keeping three people dead and dozens still missing . and the final fall of the probe that's been circling the earth for several

weeks after failing to achieve the right way it should come down shortly and see if you can discover more on t. dot com. port security is a worldwide worry that often is on the latest high tech equipment to keep us safe but peter one of the reports now on how man's best friend is bucking the face of technology. the man's four legged friends on the front line in the fight against terror these dogs are a special breed part husky part jackal and it's their cute sense of smell which makes them perfect for sniffing out explosives in airports. 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 in dogs. there husky her it it 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. as an experiment we took these hybrids to the united arab emirates where they were able to work in forty two degrees centigrade ordinary dogs wouldn't be able to handle. this early 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 as for accuracy they've even detected gunpowder residue on the clothes of hunters returning home. she. has

a false alarm is detected unless the north point five percent of searches making the dogs far more reliable than the best manmade 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. well 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 but 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 achieving it for 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 fraga tries to track me down. guess it's about sniffing me out finally chewed nose searching every nook and cranny in which

a potentially dangerous package could be hidden some passengers don't even notice that their pots are investigation. sure enough she finds me trying to check in for a flight but. well it's a good joke. no matter how hard you try to hide if you have explosives these amazing animals will find you peter all of a musket. by that it back over the headlight showing a state. now

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russia would be soo much brighter if you move out soon from france to parachutes. for a new start on t.v. dot com. the stories that shaped this week tensions between iran and the us intensify the terror on the blaming the west for killing a nuclear scientist while washington is threatening action if iran blocks a vital boil over pending sanctions. qatar becomes the first arab league member to call for troops to be sent into syria to tackle the ongoing violence there but the proposal is being labeled hypocritical coming from want to keep preaching regime change elsewhere. so doubts over the euro zone's ability to tackle debt grows as nine nations get a credit rating cut and france losing its top notch status.