for the collapse of the us we said you can live here under certain conditions but if they are trying to alter the foundations of our state then we will have to be tougher and make new. and some have already started to act this lawyer told us you had numerous reports of people being blackmailed from taking part in the voting those who would not talk on camera afraid of sanctions but. some are already scared to go voting their employer told them that should he see a stamp in the past byrd and they took part in the language referendum then he would immediately fire down. the russian speaking minority and lock the estimated of three hundred thousand people out of the population of almost two and a quarter million another three hundred twenty thousand ethnic russians are classed as non citizens and are forbidden from voting this ban experts say could prove to be crucial russian may become largely a second state language only if at least seven hundred fifty thousand people vote

for it organizers of the referendum say realistically there will be only half of that the result will be then deemed unconstitutional but may still become a major talking point likely as russians hope that the referendum will help brussels notice their distress call and have a hard talk with the vote takes place on february eighteenth with a final official results a few days later. r.t. reporting from a reader in la. now let's take a look at some other international headlines in brief greek party leaders will gather again to resume talks in a one hundred thirty billion euro rescue that becomes after a meeting on sunday ended without any deal reached countries coming up and the u.s. is seeking support of tough reforms as a condition for the bailed out to avoid default greece needs to secure a package by march. former dictator manuel noriega has been

transferred from prison to hospital after reportedly suffering a stroke to say his conditions are stable noriega was sentenced for the murder of political opponents to spending nearly two decades in u.s. and french prisons for money laundering and drug trafficking that panama for six years was toppled when the u.s. invaded the country in one thousand eight hundred nine. in the egypt o.t. three people including foreigners will stand trial counsel of the alleged illegal funding of nongovernmental organizations human rights watch has called on the government to drop the charges or washington has threatened to leave its aid to the country. i mean violence as protesters demand the current military rulers power to civilian government. now democracy has become a profitable export to one international group started off as a student movement in serbia but with the backing of the us became

a worldwide brand revolutions as artie's music capital found out the cost of such mass production ultimately falls on the taxpayer. this is the business of selling a lot of sky high heels barely there clothes revolutionary styles exported from the fashion capitals of the world hello i'm moderately. rich and this is the business of selling well drivel lucian fresh exporting how to lessons and revolution aided by the democracy capital of the world democracies after all aren't born knowing how to run themselves a decade ago merivale launched a serbian students movement that helped oust president slobodan milosevic. the group was called out for resistance and it bore the now familiar symbol of the clenched fist but behind the spontaneity of the uprisings was a carefully researched strategy guided by the west no boy somalia is

a balkans columnist who's been chronicling the events in serbia since one nine hundred ninety nine the or poor movement itself was just a tiny student organization that it got subverted taken over the operatives then expanded it turned it into a branding empire and ended up basically one ing the ground the grassroots level of the revolution that's turning it into an astro turf war they were run by the needy which very openly goes in and says our goal is to promote democracy a new york times investigation documented the extent of u.s. assistance according to journalist roger cohen poor was no ramshackle students group but a well oiled movement backed by several million dollars from the u.s. but the objective is regime change the objective is to install a government that will execute orders the worst thing about all this is that it's undermining a concept that enabled the united states to claim moral leadership in the world in

the first place with milosevic gone ivan marriage now spends his time advice ing activists abroad ever. since i've been traveling the world and teaching people how to get rid of their pesky dictators so you come up with these three easy steps so you too can get in on the action and laugh your way to freedom the video was made by students at the school of authentic journalism in mexico for narco news t.v. but ivan has helped develop a video game called a force more powerful in which players can practice scenarios like organizing mass protests and overthrowing dictators today outdoors called canvas and with the help of the internet their methods and symbols are exploited the world over from the color revolutions in georgia and ukraine to venezuela and the arab spring uprisings in egypt william engdahl has written for over thirty years about washington secret geopolitics he's convinced the canvas is not acting alone the instigators of those so-called spontaneous protest was twitter revolts in cairo and tunisia and so forth

have all been pretty organized and should you assume some of the people leaders of the protests have been trained in belgrade in serbia by old poor activists financed by the state department. this thing has the state department and u.s. intelligence all over it three easy steps and that's all it takes to overthrow your very own government so this revolution become a commodity a product that could be branded popish to mass produce an export out all across the globe one just like ivan is video this too of course is a spoof but the game of regime change is quite real and it's unintended consequences can be downright dangerous. for the american taxpayer i think who's getting. the short end of the bargain because they're there bankrolling people that are going around the world fomenting astroturf revolutions

that are eventually backfiring and they're backfiring all over the place and once the people find out who was behind this their anger turns. to the american government and the american people once your bus service is great you can be good. and easy recipe but the aftermath may be the hardest to see captain of our t. washington. up next this is news with us. twenty five minutes past eight am where you are watching business on our t.v. the current period of profound economic change has some take talking about the new world order but who will be the winners and the losers marco troil they had of brazil based think tank the center for business diplomacy gives us his first but we're in the midst of a transition phase what are the elements in disposition phase that i think will

shape the world. very straight very strong state owned enterprises from brazil russia india china a renewed innovative capacity in the u.s. in knowledge intensive sectors they will create new facebook's new google new microsoft and that is going to be good for parts of the american economy it will also widen the gap between the nose and the know not just the haves and the have nots. and i think we're going to also see a time of sacrifice in europe europe is going to have to have. goals of dynamism being inserted into its economy otherwise it's going to be stalled for a number of years. crude is saying some profit taking the following is exact trade in the previous week posting deigns on friday the overall mood remains pretty bullish wall that's why because the producers like russia the international energy agency says the market could backfire if there ali resumes. oil prices are today

very very hard just to hard for the consumers and if such become did turn the oil price which is a major risk for the global economic recovery you need a little in asia in china from the producers for you to confuse the question or mini or you could use or maybe not enjoying this part reduce but this from the forget that they need customers to help the economies if described prices make their economies six customer customers equal the music such as the european economy chinese economy they will need much less energy. and let's now take a look at the markets oil first standards in the red it's been zigzagging for most of last week as i mentioned right now light sweet is trading at around ninety seven dollars a barrel while brant is topping one hundred and fourteen dollars ten i want to

equities asian shares regaining value and better than expected statistics on the u.s. jobs that came out to late friday but we'll see if that optimism wafts when the european traders start their day there was no progress in the greek debt restructuring talks over the weekend they'll continue on monday this hour the nikkei is adding more than one percent the hang sang is up around half stopped. and it's less than two hours ahead of the opening bell the marshall markets closed with gains on friday you seeing the closing papers and thinks about job data already mentioned both indices at around one and a half percent global funds investing in russia trying to head around half a billion dollars of that one week and that's the highest level since april. and that's the latest from the business desk back in fifteen minutes.

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on our. culture is that so much i can tell you the other former soviet single world cup difference in search of national terminations and sovereignty this is what many scots say they want realistic is an independent scotland would appeal for. talking back to headlines for back to basics. fresh economic punishment syrian regime of the fighting to push through the rise of new investments of. mobile technology to support political activism mr putin goes online to improve democracy . when the change in latvia the country's national minorities as good political backing the long struggle basic rights. now in the wake of suggestions

that military action against iran is a growing possibility we speak to the former israeli intelligence when inside is he going to be is up next. with me i have mistaken for him heavy before we hade our israeli intelligence agency the more said mr halevi thank you very much for joining us here on our team a nuclear. war with iran is there with that option yes there is a third option the third option is a non-nuclear iran with. an agreement an understanding with the iranians that they will not become nuclear. and that they will be reintroduced into the family of nations from which they have been virtually expelled in recent months. under terms which will also take into account some of their interests and some of. this how

possible is this option i think is very possible because i think the international pressure which is being building up in recent months is beginning to have serious effects inside the room on the economics on the moral side the moros side and i think that the basic interest of the people in charge in iran. is to maintain the position to maintain power do you think you run poses an existential threat to israel. in the region. i am on record. repeatedly saying that i don't think there is such a thing as the existential threat to israel because i think israel is strong enough to protect it so to take care of itself and i think that ultimately it's not in the power of iran to destroy the state of israel so when it does these weighted leadership insist on presenter new ran as the danger i believe that the leadership believes that in order to arouse international public opinion in order

to mount pressure upon the iranians it's necessary to impress upon the world at large and public opinion the national public opinion this is a serious international threat and i believe that in this context probably the leadership here believes that using the word existence will rings a bell which also brings you back to days gone by in the twentieth century. a rise of nazi germany the world war two and of course the holocaust and. these apparitions these. pictures these experiences recalled in order to impress upon the world that maximum pressure should be mounted on iraq does israel have a nuclear weapon. i don't know and if i knew i don't think this would be the opportunity for me to say something positive and definitive on that but i think

that there is in the world an assumption there is in the world a feeling that israel has something up its sleeve and i think that this is something which is important in the present situation because it is part of the name of the game now is deterrence and i think it's a very important to deter iran and if iran believes that israel has certain capabilities where it has it or not i think this is a. positive. in the hands of israel what would be better if israel and demanded both had nuclear weapons with move ahead. i've been asked that question before and i think it's a theoretical question. what you're alluding to is in the end is that has the time for israel to. change its policy of what we call the opaque. method of presenting what we have or not and i don't think that this time is a road to the reason i've been before as far as the mossad is concerned would you

define if coming to mission me as preventing war or weakening iran in the case that does happen i think that it is the mission of the mossad to do everything in. its capability to make a. threat which has been posed to israel dormant what capabilities does the mossad have when it comes to iran where here again i don't think that it would be useful for me to a whole list of capabilities i think needs the capabilities which every intelligence organization i think it's important to say that we have been involved in what we call a clandestine war for quite some time with iran and what's interesting about this war is of course that both sides have more or less preferred the details of this war the details of various events not exposed to the public when you talk about can this kind of war be killing everybody and scientists be accidents out of the ring

implants computer viruses is this what you're referring to i'm referring to all range of activities i will not confirm anything which you have just now i mentioned but i was surfing that there's a long range of activities that have been carried being carried on for a very very long time over a very long period of time and i think that the activities of bridges. on the other side very very significantly and i will not say anything more than that if war was to break out on whose side were to keep on the one hand it is a nato member but it's also at odds with israel turkey would not like a nuclear iran on its borders and i don't think that turkey in the end would lend. capabilities or preventing capabilities to either so my guess is that in a situation like this. turkey would take a neutral position when it will missions when you were a head of the my side was to promote ties between israel and less thinking states

so how would you see the current policy of what many say is israel's self isolation particularly with regard to its former allies egypt and turkey. look upon this in a different light than you have just. mentioned if i would look at the situation israel is in today compared to what it was in before the peace process began in one nine hundred seventy seven seventy eight when egypt launched its initiatives towards israel i think the two situations are not comparable we lived for thirty years from forty eight to seventy seven seventy eight in the situation of isolation we are not isolated today in the region we have our differences we have more than just differences we have bones of contention with some of the countries like with turkey we have gone through a very difficult time and this was disconcerting egypt is also going through a very difficult time and i don't think that it's in the interest of egypt to

abrogate the israeli egyptian peace treaty does not need a war now on its northern borders since you retired from the side you have been meeting with the radiance is there a genuine interest among some leeway indians and some israelis to promote peace the rainier's in international fora not had private relations or private contacts with the right. there are many iranians the way i see it who would like the present confrontation between israel and iran to gradually end and create a new situation the likes of which we have in from forty eight to seventy eight because iran and israel basically do not have bones of contention we know there are issues territorial issues between ourselves we don't have other kinds of issues between ourselves we have ideological issues between ourselves and i think it would be wrong for iran to enable ideology to be the main driver of its policies and

the calls of serious drawbacks which it has been suffering as a result of putting ideological ideology on the front burner while some of the discussions in some of the questions that all raised at these informal meetings you have the radios who say look israel has no right to exist israel should disappear israel is not a natural entity in the middle east and then you have these same irradiance coming the saying we believe that israel has nuclear capability israel should sign the n.p.t. the improved ration treaty just as we have and should reveal what it has. called into the role of nations only nations and countries can be members of the n.p.t. so you cannot on the one hand demand that israel should sign the n.p.t. on the other hand deny israel's right to exist and i've said to them that i believe that this is something which is unacceptable

a second point has been israel has insisted on its be recognized as a jewish state. and they have said to me look we don't say that france in its title doesn't say the christian state or from us or the christian state of britain or the catholic state of germany and so forth and i've said to them that why do you say the islamic republic of iran if you raise the word islamic we will raise the word jewish and they say no that's different why is it different this is the kind of. discussion we have had to put it that way sometimes very very. heated discussion in your opinion would it be good or bad for israel if assad's regime force. let me first say that israel has no way of influencing the results of present. events in syria i believe that assad is going to fall and i think that ultimately assad will fall in a way which will cause

a lot of bloodshed and i think that this bloodshed will have enormous effects on the history of syria and maybe of neighboring countries as well the mass is very likely to have a duty to soon how will this play into israeli palestinian reconciliation efforts if at all personally i'm not sure how most will have a new leader. secondly i don't think the national has been the most extreme of the leaders of the hamas he's also on record as saying that he's willing temporarily to accept a palestinian state in temporary borders which is something which moves in its significance to a first step in recognizing the fact that the state of israel is here to stay my view is and i know this is not the view which is shared by the government of israel at the moment ultimately we will have to deal with the actors the way they are and i think the potential of finding ways and means of dealing with them in a way which will not insure the basic interests of israel i find highly thank you

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hello good morning welcome to the sport and they used the headline the new york giants playing their second super bowl title in four years with a twenty one seventeen win over the new england patriots. plus net gain maria sharapova and spit on a piece of our help russia beat spain's reach the fed cup semifinal. and the ice is nice gordie's goal for larry claimed his second catalyze this title finishing all show player of the checks. but first new york giants a super bowl champions a late rally giving them a dramatic twenty one seventeen victory over the new england patriots in indianapolis it is the second time in four years the giants have beaten the patriots in the final and again they went down to the wire bradshaw combining with quarterback eli manning for a six yard touchdown with just over a minute remaining to give the giants the twenty one seventeen lead the patriots

actually allowed to score believing it would give them enough time for a winning drive with their quarterback tom brady couldn't find that crucial past the new york giants the super bowl crowd. now in tennis russia have booked their place in the semifinals of the fed cup after a three one victory over spain and will play serbia in the last four after taking it to you know late on saturday team russia were able to complete the job on sunday spain did half the deficit when world number thirty three ninety the tribal lost in straight sets to carlos while this novato six love six three long are. finished paying off the three sets when i would still be a sore like the sopranos that set up the home semifinal tie in april against serbia to beat belgium three two although the recent certainty i will wear the sharapova will be available. at the probable show.