and doubts over the euro zone's ability to tackle the debt crisis grow as nine nations get their credit rating the crown think it's top notch that. it's three pm in moscow you're watching the weekly here on our t.v. this sunday on the news and now with the latest from around the world and a look back at the week's top stories 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 embargo on iran over its nuclear program with tehran threatening to block a vital maritime trade route in response i'm just going to camp 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 tell washington that the international nuclear watchdog these i'm sorry closely monitoring iran's nuclear activities are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon 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 export is in danger the u.s. is imposing fresh thanks and 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 tests late 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 way the secretary would you add anything to that some. leave it's just a war of words and neither side will go for an all out conflict considering what it

is sastre 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 less. and we would do ourselves a favor by ignoring most of it all of this so i sadly i think is connected to israel and the israeli fear of iran for rhetorical reasons more than 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 drastic 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 our team. meanwhile in syria president also has announced the release of

all prisoners jailed for peacefully participating in anti-government protests in the city as one of the major requirements of the arab league peace plan it comes as kaffirs who are opposed to sending arab troops to the country stop the violence there shake been called off on me is the first leader of an arab league country to call for military intervention carter which has been a u.s. ally has been one of the strongest advocates of regime change across the arab world spite being a monarchy itself international affairs consultant load of the news told r.t. that arab league country lecturing syria on democracy is hypocritical. now so there's clearly not what you would call a democratic leader but within the hour conduit she should be not do was to me on the contrary now i'm a dad it to me is doing i mean i'm dizzy and overly critters in the box rain you know the united arab emirates so do you rebuke what i do is do it do it few do

moment of peace they are not the ones that should point a finger and whether there is an international conspiracy with them and said point on to me to do this part i think i think it cheats more conflict than just that the results show genuine popular revolt but it is absolutely sure that the men from outside who are taking who abuse abusing whatever there is living among the syrian people for their own purposes that is absolutely. well turkey also stepped up press for on its neighbor at the beginning of the week where from those takes a look at why syria's one time ally is now advocating sending in troops. with the bloody status quo in the syrian crisis mounting as prime minister she is a growing and firelands 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 not to denounce others and sort of massacring its people we should listen to them. so glitter glue is a harsh critic himself but 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 and overthrowing the regime of bashar al 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 the role of visual 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 cash. separation. especially the part of our government. works with a middle eastern studies center based in 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 people. not always that's clear nobody has objectively information what is going on in syria the center specialists haven't been to syria probably it means the picture they paint for officials in ankara isn't likely to be an accurate one 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

but the sources of these videos are often questionable so it's easy to be misled and 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. on r.t. later we hear from the author of what's been described as the blueprint for nonviolent revolutions next hour sarber explained whether this concept of peaceful revolt has any man or the reality of the arab spring. and this hour we're in

context than with many see as the next in line for regime change find out why that unlikely fight the similarities other trouble nato. europe's debt management got a cold sour from major ratings agency this week a sense they are being told that the austerity they're imposing on people isn't working standard and poor's lowered 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 and others like germany's foreign minister calling for europe to have its own ratings agency south or angela merkel said there is a long road ahead when it comes to rebuilding investor confidence yet there's now a nervous wait to see how world stock markets will respond on monday dunlop when from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris says europe's leaders have become accustomed to blaming the ratings agencies for their trouble 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 though it is not an ability 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 and new year holidays they have assessed the situation and they have come to the conclusion so many. other people but 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 this day this announcement that downgrading of france or

as having been one of the decisive moments. when germany came out of the downgrade sweep on that scab keeping its aaa rating and investment analyst see that as a significant power set 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 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 down on on their neighbors and saying why should we germany and up being alone was 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 . coming up to thirteen minutes past the hour still to come for you here on r t the soldiers sowing the seeds of their own destruction by the group of american marines filmed during mating on the corpses of taliban fighters could be putting their fellow troops lives at risk. and turning away from technology airport security relies on our four legged friends found tensile trouble for travelers. the first people in kazakhstan are heading to the polls the parliamentary election comes just a month after the country was shaken by deadly riots in the town of generalising then i should say were striking oil workers clashed with security forces over poor pay the polls were originally scheduled for next august five president most survive dissolved parliament in the autumn and brought the date forward move is seen as an

attempt to broaden the single party dominated parliament as looks on a boy girl reports the time seems right for change in a country that doesn't want to follow in its restive neighbors with steps. it wasn't for the snow and the freezing temperatures as it stands capital of asked him that 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 that is architecture having a distinct arriving flavor like many arab countries kazakhstan's prime resources of income and gas and it is that x. ray that allowed this country the luxury of building its new capital 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 in libya have predominantly muslim populations both were considered stillbirths 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 shoot on the bias is the. 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 it's told that there are those who envy our well being the countries who are revolutions took place have gone back ten to fifteen years economically speaking the town of xenos and is rightfully called castle stands all capital but it's no match for glistening asked . despite producing much of the country's hydro carbons for decades it's been poor and neglected. the uprising in western kazakstan has molded since last spring but culminated in december in a weekend of clashes with police that left seventeen dead and more than one hundred

injuries as the protest spread to other cities. jittery in the wake of the arab spring but it was because extern has a semblance of democracy with several parties in parliament and some of position media but the essence of the regime is similar to those of the arab countries that's why the first thing the authorities did when their prize and began was to switch off the mobo networks and the internet connection before the people even demanded it out loud the kansas authorities 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 at the same time allow the society to evolve. meanwhile that their wishes have approved millions of dollars

worth of programs to give their rest a cd a facelift and create new jobs between ages. the president's close associate appointed to oversee the turbulent region says in a few years 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 by would much rather learn from the mistakes of others especially if they come at a price paid by gadhafi on a boycott artsy kazakstan. we have some news coming out of conflicts don let's not connected to the elections a mosque thought to be the biggest in central asia is on fire in the capital the building still under construction and was almost complete there's still no water supply which is making to it which is making the fire more difficult to extinguish

you know that over a hundred workers have been evacuated from the site and no one is reported injured it's hard to start well the work may have crossed the bridge. or bring you more details on the fire when as we get it here on our team. in other news this week a group of american marines film during mating on the corpses of taliban fighters have been identified and punishment is promise but it's doing little to quell the growing discuss felt around the world this week and regional experts say it could mean that u.s. soldiers currently 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 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 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. the american soldiers who are there right now in afghanistan 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 but video also triggered fears that will encourage more young people to join the taliban and al qaeda afghanistan war veteran jake hill a bird of sand that coupled with previous abuse says this latest scandal is simply helping terrorists recruit new members. just to remind people of

a few incidents that occurred a while back there was the the burning of the koran that happened with. terry jones as then there was the abu ghraib 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 end up on you tube and across the jihad a web channel and they end up reading anti-american sentiment this is the hugest recruitment for al qaida that we can do that anybody can do nobody in the united states military is trained to pee on dead people this is the behavior of ill disciplined soldiers under my opinion are probably also suffering from a severe amount of p.t.s.d. from a long ended war and what happens when you suffer c.s.b. you ended dehumanizing other human beings in the in the battlefield and it's unfair

to the mobile how pathetic this is become because the war hasn't been brought to an end like obama said he was going to do and what we're seeing abu ghraib it's happened twice now in afghanistan. well not everyone in america is outraged by what the marines were filmed doing as are yours online a c.n.n. contributor praises the troops actually cool thanks she would do the same and they're patrolling. now after ten years of war in afghanistan the u.s. recent numbers are dubious milestone as the world's most notorious prison chalked up ten years of existence quantum obeys anniversary was marked with worldwide protests and fresh calls for president obama to keep his election promise to shut it down but with washington recently passing a law to investment leave to taint anyone to deems a terror threat calls to close guantanamo bay are falling on deaf ears or smith reports one zero zero one zero zero abdel moneim am not 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 demands the release of the hundred seventy one men still held without trial in the cuban camp off to ten years one of those men is shaka oma whose 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 shot because supporters maintain he was sold for a bounty he went into the hands of the northern alonzo warlords basically and he

actually thought all the americans quite good is it will save me from the torture the months of torture by then but no he was transported to a toddler and there he has remained just spur. president obama's original election pledged 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 u.s. 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 there i'm very sorry indeed president obama for reasons of a. lack of political will or he would say

a complete inability to deliver for us nor. lived up to that promise and indeed is now bracing to become american citizens need to trials in military commissions which are very far from being fair trials with due process 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 window lists not knowing whether he can expect to be released r.t. london. or explore all our stories in doubt on our web site with much more lined up at our dot com it was like the panic of the poor the lottery cruise liner which ran aground off the italian coast leaving people there and thousands still missing you can see live pictures here of the rescue operation and follow that operation

throughout the day with are streaming live video on our website part. but we have footage of violent clashes in romania as frustration erupt so far apart . started cuts and low revving stamper. airport security a worldwide wary of that authorized on the latest high tech equipment to keep us safe by peter all of our reports now on how man's best friend is barking in the face of technology. a man's 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 sense of smell which makes them perfect for sniffing out explosives in airports are

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 in dogs like. their husky her 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 both. 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 as they are not ever working with these dogs among passengers makes people feel more secure in

the airport as for accuracy they've even detected gun powder residue on the clothes of hunters returning home. a false alarm is detected in less than 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 or. 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 ground 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 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 frogger tries to track me down.

fraga sits about sniffing me out but 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. on t.v. moscow. that wraps up our weekly program we're going to take a short break and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories. now

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you're watching art's new live from moscow a look at the stories that shape this week tensions between iran and the u.s. intensify with tehran blaming the west for killing a nuclear scientists washington is threatening action if you're iran blocked so by no oil group over pending sanctions. qatar becomes the first arab league member to call for troops to be sent.