sure worries that the blogs huge debt troubles are far from under control. plus destination unknown russia's mars probe is current and his mission went astray before circling that has finally plunged into the ocean two months up to its norge but it's not clear if it sounded in the pacific or atlantic ocean. this is that we can all see hello and welcome to the program the crisis in relations between iran and the west peaks again fueled by wednesday's assassination of a top nuclear scientist in tehran it ringing officials blame than murder on the u.s. and israel want to stop its nuclear program meanwhile american and british warships are gathering in the passion gulf where ron huldai left threatens to block a crucial oil lane and may depending all in bhangra aimed at forcing tehran to abandon its atomic ambitions. 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 people on the iranians are playing with fire and the problems in a crisis if you get were any small thing can really set it off and it doesn't close washington that the international nuclear watchdog is i'm sorry to 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 thank sions that will dramatically complicate transaction. he ran

central bank iran is also close to losing here apposite 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 he ran straight to block the strait of hormuz a vital oil artery through which a sixth of the world's oil is should the u.s. replied by moving it sensibly to the region and saying if iran goes forward they will attack thousands of u.s. troops are being deployed to israel experts say the policy of isolating iran may lead to other threats from tehran moment and a 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 straight 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 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. and coming out of the sour narcy the cookbook of politics and kazakhstan takes not to let any of that common people and season with

a few fulfilled promises that's the least of recipe for peace that kazakhstan is serving up in a region simmering with unrest. also u.s. military optimism for afghan progress is crushed by a leaked cia report painting a group picture of all this going on in the country suggesting majors decade long occupation has had stalemate. the syrian government has released about one hundred ninety prisoners under a journey to stand down still on sunday by president assad syrian officials say another batch of prisoners will be released monday once that papers are finalized the amnesty covers peaceful protesters those who carried unlicensed weapons and army defectors who turned themselves in before the end of the month the move comes in accordance with the arab league peace plan earlier accepted by the regime meanwhile is one triggered by a good mood has demanded that the syrian government holds its quiet down on

protesters with reports suggesting at least seventy people were killed last week and his call comes as qatar's leader backed military intervention using our special forces in syria if that's the only option to end the bloodshed the vast arab leader to openly indorsed such a step and star marusek a middle east researcher at cypress university says this however exposes qatari double standards. this is just really unbelievable to hear this especially considering that today qatar mir is actually in sri lanka another country whose government violently oppressed its people and there was no word not a peep from the international media from the international politicians and nor from the security council and so this is really problematic that sri lanka can get away with this kind of violence but you know when it comes to a country that is against western interests there is a different standard and of course we have to remember that the tar send forces to

rain to help you know quell a demonstration a brutally repressed democratic protesters in bahrain you know with the invitation from the buffer. royal autocratic government there so this call for interference or intervention in syria really is ridiculous when one looks at the undemocratic past and present of these countries and how and why they believe that they can use force to. interfere in a country that's going suffering from a civil war really and from the violence from its own citizens with you know who is who are the arab troops going to shoot if they enter syria. and it depends on the journalist told r.t. that the amnesty means assad is submitting to foreign pressure despite it being dangerous for the bombers and the country. it's being received in

a kind of mixed way by the syrian people cause these people they were by no means just peaceful protesters according to the syrian government they were in fact. they were people who had set things on fire destroyed many government buildings in these kinds of being the reaction is very much seen as though the president is being very generous he is releasing more people despite that the situation in some parts of the country is still very tense there are concerns among some sections of the syrian population that monks many people who are being released there will be some criminal elements who will slip through the net people understand that the president is under a lot of pressure especially international pressure to respond to calls to release these prisoners but at the same time there is very much a concern it could be a dangerous move the euro struggle for survival good that much more difficult this

week your credit rating agency has slashed the credit scores of nine e.u. nations downgrades handed out by standard and poor's come amid growing concern that the euro zone's failed to rein in its runaway finances and debt france and australia especially hard hit losing their prestigious aaa status that made them a safe haven for investors the reaction from e.u. leaders was buried with the move and justified while others accepted the decision and called for urgent action economists across the you are now waiting for monday when markets open to gauge how much damage has been done don laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris believes the euro project has reached its sound. downgrading of france but not of germany obviously means that the franco german axis is no longer tenable think position what we see in the euro is that there's only one country calling the shots not true and that's germany . there's no doubt that it will strike

a terrible blow for sarkozy has only real chance of winning the election was to show himself as a safe pair of hands as the devil you know in a crisis now it's clear that france has both a crisis and the devil no i mean it's true that these agencies are not above reproach they've made a lot of mistakes in the past 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 and i think when the euro finally collapses as it will do surely within i would think probably the next year we will see this day this announcement that downgrading of france or as having been one of the decisive moments. and in the patrick young says he believes the rating cats were well. it's been deserved frankly for several years i mean the french government has been economically incontinent for the course of several decades they've lived in never

neverland they have no concept of how to run a reasonable economy in terms of not spending more money than they can afford and it's a disaster for mr sarkozy but then again it's been coming since the start of his presidency it's been building for twenty five years and he did nothing about it so he's just as culpable as everybody else in this issue on the future of the euro everything is not up for grabs again it emotionally destabilizes every single aspect of the euro because we still have no leadership in the eurozone we've got situations like greece needing fourteen and a half billion euros to refund in march alone the euro sits on the precipice tragically and that's a terrible thing for all our viewers throughout the world the degree of russia's failed national space probe current has one factor but where it's learned that remains unclear. has nor the mission which has cost her hundred and seventeen

million dollars. it's a merge there appear to be three theories as to where the revenants of phobos grow and eventually hit the earth now most of the probe burnt up in the atmosphere along with any of the toxic fuel it was carrying but around two hundred kilograms it's believed all of the modules made it through the earth's atmosphere now we heard initially from the russian military saying that that landed in the pacific ocean around one thousand two hundred fifty kilometers off the coast of chile we then heard from cosmos the russian space agency who said this well maybe it landed in the atlantic ocean over the other side of the south american continent now we've also heard from a ballistics expert putting forward a third theory which is that the remnants of they say this probe that came back down to earth could have spin spread over such a large area that it could have actually hit both the atlantic and the pacific as well as parts of mainland brazil it was

a huge leap and dissipated mission from the russian space agency it was supposed to go to the martian moon a focus pick up soil samples bring them back to earth for analysis partially where it gets its name from food is good and basically meaning focus soil in russian now that information that data that the scientists were craving could potentially they were saying of lead to developments towards a potential martian settlement a human settlement on the moon of course all that data gone now it was a hugely disappointing mission at the probe got into orbit and then pretty much stayed there no matter how much effort was made by ross cosmos as well as the european space agency to try and contact it and get it back on its way eventually crashing back down to earth on sunday evening. insurgent radio communications intercepted by park astonied armed forces have indicated that the needle of the country's taliban massoud has been killed in a u.s. drone strike that the shell taliban spokesman in the country denies. the report

american drone strikes resumed on wednesday having been suspended after a u.s. attorney decimated a pakistani army base last november the incident sparked an international outcry and calls to pakistan to freeze nato supply routes through its territory and shut down an american base there islamabad also promised to shoot down any of its territory but defense analyst is eight hundred told us he that the supply is stuck in pakistan tell a different story of america's intentions in the region. there is a complete political chaos in the slum of the government has got up it is the americans have been bold this regime to achieve the objective of softening up pakistan for the doctrine of our work on this government is now on the verge of collapse which is also called lapsing the us strategic games in the region basically what the americans are trying to do is their boss the responsibility of their freres and of one is found upon pakistan this is also corroborated from the

fact that the nato supplies the storm has blocked in pakistan then the military hardware would use them in vision level hardware almost nine armored infantry divisions and their support equipment supplies the stock in pakistan and the concern pakistan army is that if the american the dropping of the drawing from of understand the docking or piecemeal of a bomb then why would be americans need abrams m one a one main battle tanks and almost nine armored in front group divisions of understand to fight an insurgency where they are blocking off these deals a cia report this week says the us military operation in afghanistan is doomed to failure it directly contradicts recent optimism expressed by the department of defense u.s. troops are set to leave the central asian country in twenty fourteen but an american think tank on peace in afghanistan believes the actual pullout 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 with americans to see here government standing on its feet however this could prolong americans be honest on for quite a number of years i would say in 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 is a friction in the white house right now get some more say no basically the pentagon good military is the one that's calling up that same to know we should not really rush in play out fast as we can. pulling votes across kazakhstan have now closed to millions of people cause them to choose the country's new parliament and those votes are now being counted the elections come a little less than a month after oil has staging a prolonged strike of a pope a while locked in fatal clashes with security forces they lectures were set to take

place in august but the president dissolved parliament last november and ordered an immediate vote and i had a poll so far show that they really near a ton policy has an eighty one percent of the vote but its closest competitor coming in at seven percent and that party will now become the second political group to enter parliament and acts on a boycott reports preempting violent unrest is a priority in kazakhstan have been disturbing lessons from the arab spring. if it wasn't for the snow and the freezing temperatures stands capital of aston i 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 its architecture having a distinct arriving flavor like many arab countries kazakhstan's primary sources of income are all in gas and it is that acts for that allow 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 and here both kazakstan and libya have predominantly muslim populations both were consider still roots of calm in their turbulent neighborhoods and both have experienced decades of rule by just one man in terms of style that fast. 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 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 john knows and is rightfully called catholics

tons of oil 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. jittery in the wake of the arab spring but it was because extern has assembled. 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 but 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 chasm has the riches decided to offer a 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 the authorities have approved millions of dollars worth of programs to give the rest of cd a facelift and create new jobs but unities. the president's close associates appointed to oversee the turbulent region says 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 and 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 on a boycott artsy kazakstan. for

a brief look at some other stories making headlines around the world more than thirty people have been injured in protests turned violent in the romanian capital with demonstrators throwing stones and riot police responding with tear gas thousands around it calling for early elections on the resignation of the president kerry young demonstrators are angry over austerity measures and popular health care reforms needed to satisfy the international monetary fund in return for vital. they remain in government has called an emergency meeting after four days of mass riots . a bomb blast has killed at least seventeen people and wounded twenty in eastern pakistan the explosion happened during a religious procession in which hundreds of shiites were marking the end of a period of mourning is believe the bomb was planted ahead of the gathering and time for maximum impact after the blast mourners began throwing rocks at the police who in turn used tear gas to control the crowds. and all residential building house

collapsed in lebanon's capital beirut killing two people and trapping at least forty ten others have already been rescued from the debris but officials are saying the number of casualties is likely to rise the buildings age and the impact of construction projects nearby have been named as possible causes of the incident the army is of are creating other buildings in the area is saying they're also in danger of collapsing. another two bodies have been pulled from the stricken cruise ship costa concordia bringing the death toll to five earlier three survivors were rescued from the vessel of other four thousand people on board fifteen remain unaccounted for so the ship capsized in late on friday near the eternal island of gilio police have detained the captain who was seen drinking in the by the time of the incident and he made face charges for manslaughter and abandoning the ship leaving passengers and danger. over one hundred and forty people have been arrested

after members of course of those radical self-determination movement clashed with police five kilometers from the border crossing with serbia so it's who are heading to the fronted to block a good shipment from serbia but were stopped and pepper sprayed by police border disputes between casa has said they have caused tensions in the region for their decade but great has made a series of concessions to cost about due to its ambitions to join the e.u. but as our cheesy go our garden of reports they come at our expense of ethnic serbs and living in the self-proclaimed state. checkpoint in northern kosovo may not look like an obvious triumph of peace but here is the same spot just two weeks ago since the summer you bucked possible at all billions of tried to do control of the border between serbia and kosovo the minority erected barricades in response to the noise cost of independence so in the old billion dominated province is still barred of serbia now both sides are for

a new grid that the border will be jointly policed. anyone can now freely pass through this checkpoint when you're trumpeting this as a happy resolution that a standoff and while life here has become easier a lot of serbs are saying that once again they have given up too much for the compromise and have received no rush owen says about their long term future belgrade try to talk serbs in kosovo down from the barricades so it was to join the e.u. which made a peaceful solution to the border issue a precondition but despite progress on the border belgrade's application for candidate status has been stalled in the latest round of talks with brussels some countries which did recognize and they feel that serbia is a week in just before they are getting the kind of a status that is why they are squeezing serbia exacta trying to achieve something more than then usually are asking their candidates. just meters from the e.u. soldiers in the past serbian militia many here have been engaged in conflict with

albanians since one thousand nine hundred nine when an ethnic war divided their territory into they have been coming to this road block since july and say they will carry on despite a border deal along with why should we be happy to see you soldiers give us permission to use this road we never used to need permission to use it at all we do not trust the e.u. or albanians wanted it when a relative's and friends have been injured in this conflict for the past twelve years. those who gain the most from the border compromise are ordinary serbs blocked roads prevented many children from coming to school and their parents from buying even basic foodstuffs but normality is some distance away. so. there are constant warning sirens during the lessons these children are not growing up normally their lives are defined by the conflict and this is true not just for children but for all serbs have been living in kosovo for twelve years while

opening the roads is a step forward the serb state is in and. the peddlin they do not consider their own and that does not appear to want them remains as uncertain as ever you go girl enough bazzi. and that was the need to sound i'll be back with the main headlines in just a few moments and then out of a crush to make sure crosstalk don't go away. when

i'm comfortable question leads to a grave accusation towards who is more as you know following. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. where it's someone asking him why do you make a secret of it when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different. when you get experiencing very serious problems off of the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but in the book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often beason up and humiliated in public when the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger in fact we have been deprived of the only means of earning a living i have gone to the regionals if only the papers. got their little eyes to

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following these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada . china operations are all over the day the big. this is all she and this is the week's main news here on claims the u.s. attorney's robot was behind desination want to reign nuclear scientist in the city in an effort to block the country's atomic program adding further to mounting tension between america and ses like republic. syria's president assad releases the first political prisoners held during ten months one breast while international pressure intensifies with a view on secretary general calling for violence to end.