has embarked on a course of extreme economic aggression against iran with the hope that by creating economic suffering economic isolation economic misery that part of the population will rise up or become disenfranchised with the government so that the us can do as it has in history carry out regime change in iran was the main issue discussed by u.s. and israeli military officials meeting on friday with washington opposing unilateral israeli action against iran's nuclear sites policy reports it's not only iran that fear is a strike there are also people in israel who feel like they're on the edge. from this rather spartan recording studio in jerusalem one israeli jew has been reaching out to people in iran for fifty two years ties between tel aviv in tehran off a bit in but it's never stopped menasha amir from reading the news in farsi every night and hosting a weekly show for listeners in the persian world to share the views he thinks around a million rain ians tune in and the topic they most want to talk about the possibility

of a foreign attack on iran and they are very much afraid that the iranian nuclear installations will be bombed by a foreign powers where they're israel or the united states or any other country but it's not only be rainy and who are suspicious of israel or america taking action people here in israel since something's in the air you can see signs of wink and nod from israeli officials when talking about it israel is signaling to the world. if the world doesn't do anything if the wall doesn't call for more fierce action for more crippling sanctions quoting the secretary of state clinton then israel would take the initiative and strike alone some wonder if israel hasn't already declared an unofficial one to ren but suspicions raised further after the assassination of another iranian nuclear scientist earlier this month while on his way to work putting everything together it is clear that whoever it is but if

someone or somebody or some agency is very successful in infiltrating understanding and last sabotaging the iranian nuclear project the attack is the latest in a series of mysterious accidents linked to iran's nuclear program two aircraft accidents in the space of three years scientists disappearing equipment damaged and computer viruses unleashed and the fingers pointing at israel. and the united states this is a very respectable grammar notion but. iran has many i mean. there's a good in mind it's not beyond imagination adding fuel to the fire the plan for israel and the united states to conduct their biggest joint military drill before the end of the year it would see thousands of american troops deployed in israel

for a ran it's the most blatant sign that an attacks coming but no one in israel will come on record and say there is a covert war on iran all talk of an israeli strike is limited to the airwaves policy r.t. jerusalem. tehran's relations with the u.k. have been further strain this week over london's decision to take iranian english language news channel press t.v. off the british air iran called the move a clear example of censorship british officials say the channel broke broadcasting rules of editorial control and failed to pay a fine imposed last year and press t.v. things it's been silence for dissenting views hillary so u.k. based offering media analyst thinks the channel is another victim of an ongoing campaign against iran. and. if this had been separated from geopolitics then you know this would not have happened and some other kind of sanction would have been would have been made and the deal would have been struck so i think that press t.v. has been viewed through geo political terms so that is the breakdown of relations

between britain and iran at the end of the day i think that most of the criticisms of press t.v. ad been due to its coverage because you know it sees the middle east very differently for example than the mainstream media in britain repeatedly comes up pro israeli groups repeatedly complain about it we know very well that the british government at the very highest level was discussing with the american ambassador how to limit press t.v.'s output in britain so now what we've got is we've got a real limiting of dialogue in the me in the british media and i think that's a tragedy and certainly a tragedy at a time when pretty sure relations are at their lowest ebb for a long long period. across the atlantic a freedom of speech battle of a different kind was underway the u.s. congress buckled under pressure and recalled to anti-piracy bills this week after a massive internet blackout and hacker attacks on government websites millions of net users and web giants including wiki pedia and google joined together standing

against the proposed legislation if passed the sopa and people laws would have allowed top media conglomerates and copyright holders to shut down large parts of the web without involving the courts at the same time the anonymous hacker group retaliated against the shutdown of the file sharing site mega upload claiming to have brought down the f.b.i. and white house websites in response barrett brown who's worked with anonymise on various operations and is sometimes seen as the face of the movement believes that make upload shut down shows the government can take action even without the laws in place the problem is that the track record and all governments is such that given the power to do one thing is almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of power many other things so and the way that you know the rate on megaupload cards in this opens it shows that even without so-called already in place here they are already arresting and resting the owners of megaupload and

shutting it down and in the future a very near future as you'll see there will be a number of other. military not goods situation it's worse in the grass and smells of war and the notable civil war in the us. this week a former british official admitted the u.k. spies have been caught red handed by russia it took six years from when the kremlin first made the allegations artie's ivor bennett explains how moscow left no stone unturned. it's not exactly the most glamorous of james bond gadgets but hidden in this fake stone was a high tech transmitted british spooks used to spy on russia the allegations from moscow have always been dismissed but six years on there is rock solid evidence the u.k. can no longer deny tony blair's former chief of staff come clean admitting british spies were caught red handed the spy rock was embarrassing they had us bang to

rights clearly they had known about it for some time and had been saving it up for a political purpose. the embarrassing revelations confirmed the findings of a russian television report in two thousand and six it showed this video of a man slowing down and looking at the rock as he passed apparently an agent beaming top secret intelligence from a mobile computer to a digital drop point concealed in the stone another man was filmed picking up the rock and collecting the data. the moment of was the one behind the expose a and left no stone unturned but much more at first i had to delts i thought it might be a fake story or a political game but we cross checked everything with multiple sources and it turned out to be true and some footage we didn't include in the film was particularly convincing for example there was a video of a british spy you're a knitting in front of the camera that carols hidden under a tree in the song was lying nearby the guy wanted to look natural so we pretended

that he needed to take a leak n.e.p. right in front of the camera before picking up a stone and leaving. but it was his word against theirs britain fiercely denied the allegations with tony blair laughing them off as russian propaganda the truth was buried inside the u.k. secret service headquarters supposedly never to be seen again so after six years of dodging the bullet wide net it now they're very embarrassing but i think that the british government has decided. to have bygones are bygones and say ok we made a mistake. in up and we want better relations from now on so i would see this as a first step on the road to improve relations with russia this is the home of britain's spooks m i six the government is a broad their job may not be secret but how they do it is or at least should be so

the embarrassment of these revelations is not so much the spying itself but the fact they were caught doing it a postcode. old war agreement supposedly forbids britain and russia from spying on each other no doubt they'll be more careful from now on either bennett's london. be back with a recap of the week's headlines in a few moments stay with us. there

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else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you. are welcome is a big. one thirty am in moscow we're rounding up the week's top stories here on r t the arab league extends its observer mission in syria to saudi arabia withdraws its monitors from the group critical of the lack of progress in ending almost a year of violence this is the opposition claims the observers have been ineffective and calls for the u.n. to step in. croatia votes in favor of joining the e.u. despite the issue previously sparking protests and violent clashes this as the plot

itself continues to be shaken by the rallies with people in romania now wising up against their government. other stories that shape the week tensions around toronto nuclear program stirred further by plans to impose an embargo on iranian oil and the us building its warship presence in the region. the power of the internet in action a massive online backlash over u.s. plans to expand websites or shift leads to the suspension of pending anti-piracy laws. up next our special report from nigeria there multinational companies instigate tribal tensions as a smokescreen to manipulate the country's natural resources that's coming up stay with us.

it's like an island cut off from everywhere accessible only by helicopter. in more than two hundred kilometers off the coast of nigeria a floating factory that is unique in the world as big as eight football pitches it's a foretaste of what the search for oil will become. this enormous crofters itself at the heart of a wind a system that consists of searching for oil ever deeper under the sea and also further and further from the explosive situation that prevails on the. submarine platforms and drilling vessels on a map a tiny rectangle named act. as zone of a few kilometers square that represents a new eldorado. in the center floating like a queen bee of belly full of the treasure that the whole world covets is the flagship of the company. and i have your

ideas. if there is an order. on akpo we are far from everywhere but everything is checked. this and you've checked all the facts to see how it all back to the sort of community i go up to even the people you know that you've been working with her for years you have to search their backs and even those including the head of the station. and what are you searching for mainly. to tissue anything that's about them like drugs guns knives. this kind of thing also this back home. situation on the gulf of guinea and the most

populous country in africa nigeria is roughly the size of france and belgium combined. it's the size of the country the niger delta region that's the object of envy. a geological insolvent is overflowing with excellent quality oil. thousands of drillings licensed to the oil companies of the whole world pierce the country's ground on land and at sea link together by pipelines that run through the mangroves in the sea in every direction. today nigeria is the largest oil producing country in africa the scene of a banquet between companies. all. after arriving by helicopter and after the regulation search patrick one of the two managers takes over from his colleague john francois his back to back in off shore speak. to an engineer turned manager of a nigerian father and a maltese mother. is one of the rare employees of the company to hold such a post. very early schedule to produce one hundred sixty three thousand barrels

a day for next month we're dealing with large volumes of it which is very very flammable is more flammable than normal oil and also we have large volumes of gas at high pressure. it's a look at the system so we kind of leaks before have meat and there's a sparkle source of ignition of the next thing you would have a fire and then you put us at risk yes everybody has to be worried about fire because a fire on board would be disastrous it could be disastrous. don't you so much for we have to be careful here permanently on the alert to what you ask you because you can't escape. the three hundred meters long and all but this one is where over story starts. the name is the floating.

storage offloading units woods says everything because. it's a unit that floats and it has capacity for production and storage we also process we don't store but we sit and export gas first ask a tour of the property patrick shows us around his pipe or cathedral so we're currently. like i said while the whole deck level so below. below us now we have tons so one of the problems that we have vessels of this size laundress and. of choice corrosion of the decks and corrosion corrosion at this level. it would be difficult to repair because just underneath we have tons of oil so it will be rather impossible to cut a part out too well because of the risk of exposure. is another life boat here and

then of course we have. life rafts just in case of us so anybody. he says has more than enough means to. just stay. for the first time we've been allowed access to this incredibly technological and highly risky structure. on board are two hundred forty men so completely lost in the interlacing of pipes that you almost never meet anyone the s.p.s. serve as a citadel of troops valves elbows through which flows the precious liquid below are dozens of pipes reaching down to the bottom of the sea which suck up the oil. you could say that workers here are like the distant extras in a giant mcconnel construction protected by the navy another permanent surveillance from countless cameras. a technological exploit certainly but in a context of political paranoia. good morning.

to nigerian navy patrol boats time gone twenty four hours a day under the olders of antonio djoko. he moved into security work after twenty two years in the army twenty two years of happiness as he describes it he's a man who searches the bags organizes patrols and supervises all movements around the base. but. you. always look so here we have the eye mucking about and so there are operations center where we monitor the whole of the outpost field. with this radar to come into it which allows us to check all the boats arriving. can but who are you to know what boat of the riving and especially to pick up any suspect record that wasn't

expected to enter the field i think in all these cameras they monitor all the accesses here. and inside the earth yes so with this. receivable going to move to secure but that's a lot of security measures for extracting oil ports how do you get. so on this on this is what are the measures required to nigeria of the day considering the threats that exist as you say nigeria high risk the bordering the many malicious intent. and espionage and boats intruding in the maritime exclusion zone. doesn't this one item that they obviously are you armed here on board since it doesn't i'm not on. if i don't there are no weapons on board even you don't have one no making your ruler should have some guys climb up the chain and they have weapons machine guns for example what do you do but i don't see the other measures

that would be taking place measures that have been designed for that situation. there are no guns on board and the situation is under control i repeat the situation is under control. i mean ira is a small fishing village situated on the island of bonny right at the mouth of the niger delta. and it's here that the gas sent from the f.p.s. so platform arrives undersea pipeline. if it weren't for the plant ameri ari would be a typical little village. with hearts and shacks with palm leaf roofs streets of san news it coming from portable radios open air stores kids running everywhere and a soccer match underway and the fisherman returning with the tide.

would be well if next door right next door protected by barbed wire they went sending millions of cubic meters of gas and oil to the most highly developed countries in the world. didn't want. every did by did loading gus to order for. new york dollars but not the one not the community nearby you know about it i mean anything from the company. and this. is full now. when you come up with these guys know that all looks that isn't going to follow every day study lou did not is top one this is. in the small harbor when the ships come in the giants with gas the tiny ones with fish to world's rope shoulders i did looks as if the big world is giving the tiny one the finger and that if you wanted to do was get

a little we took our own. metal shop. and. sometimes sometimes. nigerian people work for the companies yes there was a little boy with us how. about that at the white men he says but it's very odd you. bring blood from a set of ideas about the dog for you to. hurt. and as a supreme insult naturally there's no gas in the village to smoke the fish and cooking think of the wood from the forest. above

a terminal on the chimneys that burn off the gas nonstop to prevent overpressure they tell us. that's a lot of use to the villages of oppression. these villages would. come into it i do so much that if you thought there would you. think it does or was that because of the devices it. is in has because i did end up for it and i said i didn't know what. that does is it not discuss the deniability i think intuitively that about why what i wanted not up. by the report was that i didn't get what the. offshore from the village the s.p.s. the engineers and technicians continue extracting oil far from land because that's the job of the heart of the extraordinary machine the end of a pipe and in

a small jar the famous brown liquid. the world's holy grail you might say. so but this is the oil. being treated it's a condensate it's a very light crude it is you. know i mean we're more than two thousand meters down. and we can get something out that's relatively easy to use so it comes out of the top it's what they call the blob of nigeria. so this quality you have to go deeper and deeper to find it today or future major projects a situation of very great depth. so it's going to require immense technology. more and more to. the logical evolution to go would get the oil even deeper.

if the input of course other aspects of very important for the commercialization of the soul of the case you can see if you must see i mean i mix or water and oil because water doesn't cost much and oil costs a lot of shows every time we load our oil product onto a tank we have to be sure it contains a minimum of water. say the blood of nigeria because it's their role materials it's their product what is it we're here to help them explore it and for me. it's the fruit of their history we spoke of their history because it is to do it it's because of their millions of years of history. because of all the other we have. in the world.

and i hope it will allow them to fuel their economy just. in an efficient white my this but despite that there are a few problems. from your point of view can you understand that there are people who might want to attack you. but maybe look for maybe you should cut that system but. i'm just asking the question you don't have to answer that i know my answer is yes personally that doesn't surprise me cynical but doesn't surprise me. so he's back on land we allude military surveillance to film something that's totally forbidden to film on pain or arrest and major problems yeah. yeah. you know is this with. the runs a protest movement to denounce the environmental damage caused by the all companies wants to show. i think the effort that's where we move. on if well and we will move

into a new we could come close to this not be abundance in that they're fifty it's. the end of a pipeline lost in the wild an enormous blaze the stench of gases insupportable three to five hundred meters is already on bearable i was thinking that it was the forbidden gas like that yes that was a problem in mckinney who love god and that's in two thousand and five. i'm not on that dogma and i'm different our government. does not have any political way to implemented that but i thought it was you know the thread was against the laws of our country it is it is like a monster so how it smells stinks and the sound. like this is the most of what is done the most this is worse than the most you can see.