it's in these conditions the west's judy expect the drop in the euro raises and the euro markets are shattered this new decision will result in further economic trouble which as we can see have affected the majority so far they've been unable to find solutions with the decisions taken today by the west you know lottery will result in the escalation of the economic problems. and corporate protestors in washington d.c. were a victim this weekend from a park they'd occupied since early october and eight people were arrested when mounted police raided the encampment officers said they were simply enforcing a no camping at all and activists are allowed back into the park but the demonstrators say it was a full scale invasion the occupy movement has seen some heavy handed police tactics including the recent a taser shock and of a protester in d.c. kevin zeese from the it's our economy think tank believes that the activists are smart enough not to overreact to excessive use of force by the police. who knows

what's going through their head space on that you know when we i watch that video it's available online and it looks like there was no justification for it when i went to many fears in the day to ask about it people said the only thing he was doing was taking down signs around the tents that said no camping and so that was the rationale for tasering him he was dropping values not being as threatening looks like a excessive use of force my sense is that it's not going to provoke the macpherson campers that they're more. disciplined than that to fall for that trap the occupy movement in a few months. and show you american people that if they get mobilized and organized that we have power we can change the direction this country so the future's going to be an american spring that's going to explode on the scene and become more important the presidential race in two thousand and twelve asia's leading economy china has pledged to consider pumping cash reserves into the euro zone to help with

the blocs debt crisis the offer comes after strong lobbying by the german chancellor during her three day trip to the country it comes as the e.u. awaits the conclusion of a drawn out greek debt talks negotiations are key to athens receiving a second bailout and are seen as its only opportunity to avoid a default at the same time you know that is are working a feverish force through unpopular financial legislation not all but the pm parliament for the u.k. independence party says that people won't take kindly to these measures being forced upon them. only going to get worse i mean at the moment they're bending jamming the flags on the streets of athens i predict it will be roll next and then there's been you never know it could be toppled as well the tensions between the countries particularly between the north of europe and the south of europe is only going to get greater and what you've got is you've got protests in the south and what we're seeing in the north is a political revolution or a new party just bring it all and you're a skeptic party to get a better result than ever before the scary thing here that you have is once you start tinkering with democracy and trying to change the world i think you know the

. the slippery slope in these and what's happening at the moment over here is that the e.u. is really showing it's the chilling what it's all about it doesn't want to listen to the people they're talking about an intergovernmental agreement on this will go into crimea e.u. more through secondary legislation which means that the people can be bypassed there will be referendums across the continent particularly in iowa where the should be a referendum on this and what will happen is they will bypass the people and people to the streets and so we did you know they will get exactly what they want and it is a complete affront to democracy where you can get more on this and other stories online twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com here's a glimpse of what is waiting for you there right now from tragedy to treasure hunt thousands of the works of art are up for grabs aboard the stricken luxury liner coaster concordia including jewels and antiques plus. some new gym lessons with michelle obama who's living up to her reputation as one of america's most vigorous advocates of a healthy lifestyle full story and much more at our two dot com. he

used to consider vladimir putin his argentum a blaming him for the death of his son alexander litvinenko the former f.s.b. officer but this week saw another expected change of heart from the fierce kremlin critic who now admits he simply said what the western press wanted to hear valter litvinenko spoke to our team. course but is. this is how we found. praying in his tiny italian apartment no electricity no gas no water look if. it wasn't for the help of his people i would have died from hunger to freezing to death the last time i was on christmas eve. we expected more because six years ago after his son former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko was poisoned in london he was taken care of by some

very powerful patrons like suffix out tycoon boris berezovsky and ahmed zakayev and a tourist former chechen militant both hiding in the u.k. . would you smoke three of them we brought. yes extremist yellow dogs that there are. just give me your pretty here doris you would be. the one biter you'd been and co sent a letter asking to be interviewed by russian television we expected more of the same but instead. we're going to be made. if you're watching this program please forgive me for all the slander the thai said and wrote about the hatred or how do you know only i had known my son worked for british intelligence you would not talk about his death he could easily have been shot as a double agent the choice of story what else can i answer the. only with.

the u.-turn vaulters says came when his sons we don't marina bin and co revealed to the british media that her husband had worked for and my six alexander litvinenko was receiving a retainer of around two thousand pounds a month from the british security services at the time he was murdered at first by turnitin and cole like many others claimed his son had been poisoned with polonium to town on putting the former f.s.b. officer and fierce critic of the kremlin alexander litvinenko spent twenty three days in a london clinic slowly dying from a toxic substance possibly consumed through a cup of tea even before police in london started questioning suspects the victim's father was actively kissing the russian government today by their admits he was saying only what the west wanted to hear. of course i realize russia's f.s.b. and you have to take polonium to london brink over some heads and leave traces

everywhere and they're suspect. you're not a fool either way it was anger and blind hatred speaking inside of me vydra now believes his son fell victim to his own game of double agents now he wants his words to be heard but the media outside russia which once beat down his door for interviews now won't even reply to his requests. why is that. because. of the regime i was a real treasure for the movie the whole there are very few people who would say as many horrible things about as i did. you know maybe in two thousand and eight but that in between young call for what russia for sanctuary need to leave is settled in the sleeping quiet town of sinegal it offered a new anonymous life the man claimed putin was his number one enemy so hiding in europe he believed was the only safe solution today was there litvinenko is still afraid to open this door not because of putin though but because of his landlord to

whom he owes a lot of money this miserable life has made him a slave of his sanctuary but surely the namco sold everything he had in russia to come to eataly he opened a small business several years ago but it went bankrupt things got worse after the seventy three year old had buried his wife but are now fears her casket could be removed because he hasn't paid the cost of a barrel plot and it's been months since the electricity was shut off to his flat he was lost forty euros went on a gas canister and that is gone too. this is how most of us talk at the number in the door to let the southern wind inside. there is east only as russia. learned from. children who want to go home to russia i don't want to stay here he said in

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welcomes a big. broadcast from our studios in central moscow recapping the week's top stories this is our. block of the west bank u.n. draft resolution on syria. the government and opposition has come to. that over two hundred people have been killed in the city of the government the reports while the opposition claims it's. the start of the conflict. in egypt at least a dozen people are killed

a. failure to prevent seventy four deaths at a football match on wednesday. protests clashes between security forces and protesters in cairo have been raging for four days with. rubber bullets to keep demonstrators from entering the interior ministry building. zero temperatures hundreds of thousands rally in both pro and anti-government demonstrations ahead of next month's presidential elections. up next iran's interior minister talks exclusively to r.t. about how his country is coping with mounting sanctions don't go away. the possibility of war between the united states and iran is being debated around the world that's what the mood is like inside the country to discuss that the n.l. joined by iran's interior minister. lot larger it's possible thank you for your

time mr stone is that they were talking several days after the e.u. introduced oil sanctions against iran and i know the iranian leadership has responded by saying the sanctions would do move home to europe one to run me or still since iran gets seventy percent of its revenues from oil do you have any fears about negative social reactions including strikes as people may lose their jobs do you take this somehow into account in your work. such as. these speculations are new to our country and our government or the power of the people all around ruling bodies or in power as a result of popular voting therefore our government and are all for it is a completely popular and our people have participated in all areas and spheres of our life from the very start of the revolution therefore as i've said there's nothing new about these talks which are actually quite outdated and irrelevant you know nonetheless they keep speculating on this matter of trying to stir up

psychological warfare inside our country or in the countries of the region well probably among people of their own countries that have enough of their own problems attempting to find someone else to blame for them we don't sell that much oil to your of illnesses and our european accounts don't have that much money. so you are starting to get this all stop the u.s. and the west as a how do not conceal that one of the main tasks of these sanctions is to get the oil prices for the iranian oil lower that's decreasing their revenues from the oil iran saudi is they want a two we used to manipulate the political situation. i believe they've made a big mistake as this action results in turbulence for the oil and energy markets this very fact it can result in oil price growth in these conditions the west should expect the drop in the euro rate and the euro market this new decision will result in further economic problems which as we can see have affected them already

and so far they've been unable to find solutions oil and energy markets will experience instability and turmoil and this factor can boost prices for oil and energy products and jeopardize the market security but this is quite difficult for the markets which going by previous experience is used to consuming certain kinds of oil and energy and this also brings up technical and economic issues at the same time we're not worried for iran at all we've ensured our efficient planning in advance and with god's help we will continue moving forward but in the decisions taken today by the west unilaterally will result in the escalation of their own economic problems covering the story iran ians navaids the rankins with the aggressive and military rhetoric being built up by the west that they aren't as i've said these words are new these speculations have been going on for thirty years and there's no news in it to the iranian people the people of iran are in charge and they always participate in everything we don't sense any problems inside

the country. if i may i would like to ask you about the recent killing of a nuclear scientist there have been other similar cases and as far as we understand the investigation into it has not made great progress so far why have there been no substantial results and who might be behind these killings. and this is clear is day and they admitted mossad and the cia as well as some european security services don't like to see nations progress they would like to have control and a monopoly over everything the great a rainy a nation and follows the path of certain. for new technologies it wants to stand firmly on its feet by means of its own strengths and produce its own knowledge they disapprove of this progress and they don't want to see other nations develop themselves the fact that they come over to such people's homes or attempt to murder an educated and broad minded university professor highlights the grave nature of

their situation that it demonstrates that the us and israel have disgraced themselves in this matter that they speak of human rights and at the same time they officially perform terrorist attacks and promote state terrorism expansion. in their slogans we see their idle talk on fighting terrorism their deeds however do not match their words they brought their troops to afghanistan under the pretext of defending human rights and fighting terrorism and drug trafficking and drug crops have increased forty fold since the americans got there. the number of casualties among innocent men women and children has increased significantly and so has the level of instability in the region that we actually witness terrorism development in the region of drug mafia and drug related revenues have grown as well and we see contradiction between their words and deeds. the scientists assassination will only make the iranian people stronger and more focused on their goal will people understand that they've chosen the right path the one of scientific progress the

adversary doesn't want to see this happen that it would cause harm to them in the physical annihilation of people in full daylight as a sign of the adversary is complete powerlessness and despair our initial yes last i now that iran is having parliamentary elections in a month in many countries not only arab ones election may be used as a way to create provocations there are always some people unhappy with election results and this discontent may snow ball i concerned by this that a similar scenario man followed in iran. no thank god we've had twenty nine elections to date and this. election campaign will be our thirtieth election and it will take place in absolute peace and security like all the previous ones because our dear fellow citizens in all the regions all the cities and villages will willingly come to polling stations and cast their votes to designate their delegates to parliament to serve the purposes of development and prosperity for our

country. but that is the last of the you know that r.t. has been comprehensively covering the situation in the arab countries as we have covered the wars in libya and syria we often heard complaints from the leadership that the intelligence services of other countries have stepped up their operations on the territories of the countries concerned in the past year the way many are ledged imaginaries in syria and libya who could see with our own eyes that some people were apparently not libyans but fought on the side of the rebels can you see any increase in the operations of intelligence services from other countries or any attempts to penetrate your territory at least in recent years since the latest events in the arab countries began. you see foreign powers and other enemies are at work everywhere they might also be present in our country but we do not feel we should worry about this of course we should look out for superpowers and our enemies attempting to interfere in the home affairs of arabic countries especially

in syria and in all countries where the people are in charge of running their nations they must keep track of such attempts. at omaha that always years worth of work with elias it's been about a year since the arab spring began a first even the iranian leadership hailed the movements in egypt and libya as expressing democratic sentiments but now that one year is passed the attitude towards the events around your country has changed do you still believe those are people are driven by their own democratic ideas or do you see hundred other countries in the events of the arab spring. we support any popular movement as long as people demands are legitimate imperialistic regime of world supremacies is obviously trying to lead people away from the right path and neutralize the popular movement or transform it in favor of their own interest but it will have to get a pure straightforward all right just part of the people have been following you know what countries of the region however is stipulated by their willingness to

defend their. right which is a legitimate demand from iran's viewpoint but that is the business can one say that the instability in the region has considerably increased the narcotic drugs trafficking well we need our long kong yes afghanistan is certainly the focus of narcotic plantations now the americans and europeans are there and since they came narcotic drugs production has increased forty four old and it's a financial source for most terrorists who infringe the security of central asian states the states of the region and russia itself it's a threat not only for iran but for the region at large and russia if russia fails to keep an eye on what's going on next to its borders and around the country this threat will most probably become a serious problem for russia itself it's a fact that both iran and russia the main drug trafficking route where at the beginning of it because the drugs first penetrate our country then followed to turkey and then to europe and then on the other hand russia is also on the route

that its northern end because the drugs penetrate russia through central asia and then go to europe you know we suffer serious losses on this route more than three thousand seven hundred lives have been lost in the attempt to resolve this issue. given we as humans are convinced we have to go on with this ruthless battle so as to save our people and despite the fact that the world community does not lend us necessary assistance in this cause we're alone to bad most financial costs and human losses in order to continue the struggle shut down the borders and blockade the territory inside the country in order to prevent the trafficking so it seems iran and russia will have to take responsibility for the problem themselves that they've been in the u.s. in wayne was in one of our best i was just the pairing for this interview several colleagues approached me at r.t. asking if there was going to be a war between iran and the usa are you on film. as well as well in let me say this again all those fabrications are not new. to us the islamic

republic of iran is a strong power capable of defending its regional security fully and the iranian people and being a great and powerful nation are not afraid of those futile threats nothing. but. less strident but australia i do want to tell you there's no way i'm to see the film on screen if you want to have sex go and have sex.

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if you knew the song from phones to. screws don't talk t.v. don't. russia and china block a western backed u.n. draft resolution on syria with moscow slamming the text for an unbalanced approach and a denial of dialogue between the government and opposition this comes amid conflicting accounts that over two hundred people have been killed in the city of homes that the government denies the reports while the opposition claims that it's the worst crackdown since the start of the conflict. in egypt at least a dozen people are killed as anger at the authorities failure to prevent seventy four deaths at a football match on wednesday parks countrywide protests clashes between security forces and protesters in cairo have been raging on for four days with officers firing rubber bullets to keep demonstrators from entering the interior ministry

building. and in russia's bitter subzero temperatures hundreds of thousands rally in both pro and anti-government demonstrations ahead of next month's presidential election. now paul scott is here with the latest from the board of sports. hello welcome to the world of sport here's what's coming up. net gain maria sharapova and svetlana kuznetsova help russia big spain to reach the fed cup semifinals. twice is nice scottish golfer paul lawrie claims his second cats are masters title after finishing fourth short clear of the chasing pack. and punch-drunk deny my most of those boxes celebrates a five nil whitewash over the los angeles matadors in the world series. but we

start with tennis where in moscow team russia have put their place in the semifinals of the fed cup after a three one victory over spain after taking a tuna lead on saturday taking russia were able to complete the job on sunday spain did haul the deficit when world number thirty three now they have to try the last in straight sets to collar suarez navarro six six three but long arc is not sort of a finish by an off with a three sets when i was sylvia so that espinosa the russian easily took the arming set six to her she lost the second despite leading forty one at one stage however she came back strongly to take the third six two four six six three the final score russia will face a home tie against the belgium or serbia in april semifinals. uncertainty over whether sharapova will once again be available. when we are with the probable sharapova is not her desire to play but the.