mostly a positive effect because if the soldier who wakes up to go over to the needs of the people so you'll know the consequence a smarter more stupid as to how i hope it will continue. that way if there is a real split in society of course it's not going to be good for the country. so you can always read more on our top stories twenty four hours a day on our web site r t v dot com here's what's waiting for you right now the man named amounts of these moscow street artists whose detailed artwork and secret identity have earned a nickname the russian that banks ski after the british started. plus three thousand meters beneath the sea russian scientists come across a unique discovery find out exactly what they found and its impact on the future of science head to our web site r t v dot com.

well russians make up near the thirty percent of launches population on a referendum is being held to recognize their native language officially in the baltic state lottery as language policy prevents the official use of any language other than life in policy is prevented russian speakers from working and resulted in the closure of several russell schools over the last decade or two as alexei years says he explains why the vote could be a step towards restoring basic political rights. this professor from a lot of wants everyone in his country to have equal rights that's why he had no second thoughts when the initiative of a referendum to make russian the country second state language. can't accept the policy of true true to my friends from the russian minority those who also built its independence in one thousand nine to one we were shoulder to shoulder back then

but now they're being treated like garbage new citizenship for them jobs here that's why i signed for the referendum ethnic russians make up a third of the us population the idea of holding this referendum came after what they describe as ethnic discrimination had reached a critical point if radical nationalists initiated their own referendum to close russian schools in latvia they failed but it was a worry in cool that's why we gathered signatures for a language referendum to legally protect ourselves after we did the ruling nationalists when hysterical trying to jeopardize the votes in the minority points to a recent statement by the country's president yes at the referendum means voting against blood to be. as collating state level discrimination the nationalist denounces all such accusations however they believe their vote carries a threat to the country's sovereignty and are sending

a stern warning move. we allow these people to live in our territory after the collapse of the u.s.s.r. we said you can live here under certain conditions but if they are trying to alter the foundations of our state then we'll have to be tougher and make new laws. and some lothians have already started to act this lawyer told us you have 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. two of them that you do you see in the past byrd and the part in the language with a random then he would immediately fire them like today is russians hope that the referendum will help brussels notice their distress call and have a hard talk with the. russian may become law to be 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

a hall full of that the result would be then deemed unconstitutional but may still become a major talking point of all t.v. reporting from reader in law. coming up to twenty two minutes past the hour let's take a look at some other world news the greek prime minister is struggling to get polish to buy in to harsh new international bailout terms the country must accept even more painful cuts if it's to get a one hundred thirty billion euro second lifeline from international creditors if the deal falls through greece is expected to default by the end of march. so many of the prime minister has resigned of dissolve the government saying he wants to preserve social and economic stability in the country this follows weeks of protest over austerity measures introduced in twenty ten euro financially e.u. and i.m.f. the pm urged the country's politicians to bridge their divisions and vote in a new government as quickly as possible. in the u.k.

queen elizabeth the second is celebrating her diamond jubilee sixty years since her accession to the throne she's only the second british monarch ever to have reached the milestone during her reign the queen has seen a dozen prime ministers david cameron being her twelfth all the main celebrations are due to be held in june and while the u.k. may now be knighted in the jubilant mood coming up at eleven thirty g.m.t. on cross-talk artie's peter lavelle debate the problems britain may face over the issue. independent. well look at the figures and i'm sure i'm sure the viewers will be able to judge the figures from themselves they're publicly available but let's let's look at this issue the last four years because when it leaks of course the u.k. only once in the last five years in economic. groups noticed a lot to be lower in scotland than the u.k. average those those figures are going to be a little supplement ok gentlemen i'm going to jump in one of the reasons why

gentlemen let me jump in here david i guess is the interlopers here ok this is look like these two people should be together look at all of the different that. when you're brussels here next with the latest business they were. booking to the business program here on russia's gazprom has acknowledged that it temporarily reduced gas supplies to european customers at the end of last week the company said it was forced to cut deliveries due to unusually high the mystic demand for more details on your books on the boy probably headquarters else on earth thanks for joining us what reason did goes pro give for cutting supplies. well daniel just a couple of minutes ago arts and business had a chance to interview alexander made of it he's gas pumps deputy c.e.o. all for responsible for our gas exports to europe and what he told us is that

indeed the company has to cut its gas supplies to europe by ten percent for just a couple of days according to me that if he said that it was partially due to these i'm usually called temperatures that are still holding a russia and their grip and. satisfying domestic demand was the company's top priority but at the same time alexander mitigated also pointed out that european demand for gas has increased by about fifty percent in january above the bowl games that were initially a contract that needed it also said that gas from do everything that it could to satisfy those additional demands but it wasn't always possible first and foremost because gazprom had already brought its production levels to its peak of about one point six b.c. on per day and again the domestic demand is pretty high as if it is expected to remain at peak levels. still late february when these chilling

temperatures are expected to recede now the gas from official also used this situation to make every other and class and comment about its parts market for gas now some european officials usually presents for markets as a sort of ulterior motive to the traditional routes of delivering gas to europe mainly pipelines according to the video of this whole situation and the inability of the european countries to contract as much gas as they need on this port market showed that this port market is still under developed that is still unreliable and therefore the primary source of the primary way of delivering russian gas supplies to europe is still the pipelines here's exactly what the stat. the sport what it could to demonstrate to the picture that is what it all sports look at here in the us to look at this for them into that is the walloons it's a little spook all issue to the there's a there's a sport crisis there's

a price war for long term contracts on leverage them to continue to grow but that is will get that will get us in both of those as well because when you and so it's all the same out of the water so we'll go with it will be people. now xander mitigate it wasn't the first official who used this mini crisis to drum up support for the russian pipeline three point similar comments from russian prime minister vladimir putin on saturday sad that sport markets are essentially a virtual idea that it's still not working properly at this point of time. during that meeting on saturday putin also urged gas prone to do everything that is in his power to satisfy european increased european demand but he also made it very clear that gas from the first and foremost should our work to satisfy the master demand and many experts suggest that it is

a very very expected. statement because russia is just a lot of been two months away from the presidential elections in which roger reporting will be running as a main contender. to correspond with folks on the booker thank you very much indeed that's all the business news for this be back in about fifty five minutes for financial news here on alt.

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see line from moscow our top stories the e.u. seeking to impose tougher economic sanctions on syria's government after failing to boost pressure on president also drew a u.n. draft resolution that was blocked by russia and china. russia's foreign minister calls western reaction to the double veto indecent and hysterical ahead of his trip to damascus aimed at finding a political solution to the ongoing plight. told so ensuring greater political involvement for the people through the internet prime minister putin lays out his

plans to upgrade russian democracy a day after mass protests and then three government rallies swept the country. plus the russian black sea and minorities hopes for their language to be officially recognized in the post soviet baltic state are marred by reports of intimidation being used to dissuade people from taking part in an upcoming referendum. now in the midst of sky high tensions between the west and tehran we've talked to the former chief of the israeli intelligence service about his take on the ongoing confrontation. when you 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 r.t. a nuclear. war with iran is there with the option yes there is a third option and 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 in which they have been virtually expelled in recent months. under terms which will also take into account some of their interests and some of the. how possible is this option i think is very possible because i think the international pressure which has been building up in recent months is beginning to have serious effects inside iran on the economics on the moral 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 to take care of itself and i think that ultimately it's not in the power of iran to destroy the state of israel does things we need leadership insist on presenting the ran as the danger i believe that the leadership believes that in order to arouse international public opinion and 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 iran 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 a part of the name of the game now is deterrence and i think it's very important to deter iran and if iran believes the. israel has certain capabilities where it has it or not i think this is a. positive card in the hands of israel what would be better if israel and demanded both had nuclear weapons only from your head. 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 old. 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 a mission as preventing war or weakening irag 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 hold lists of capabilities i think leaves 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 that the details of this war the details of various events be not exposed to the public when you talk about can this time of war be killing everybody in scientist accidents in 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 mentioned but i was saying that there is a long range of activities that have been carried being carried on for a very very long. over a very long period of time and i think that the activity is registered on the other side very very significantly and i would not say anything more than that if the 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 what if your mission is when you a head of them aside was to promote ties between israel and less friendly 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've 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 egypt does not need a war now on its northern borders since you retired from the side you have been meeting with the reagans is there a genuine interest among some leeway indians and some israelis to promote. i have many rainier's in international fora not had private relations or private contacts with iranians 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 had 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 always 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 emperor of 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 been sr done it's been recognized as a jewish state. and they have said to me look we didn't say that france in its title doesn't say the christian state or for us or the christian state or britain or the catholic state of germany and so forth. and i 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 forces. let me first say that israel has no way of influencing the results of present. events in syria i believe that our side is going to fall. and i think that ultimately our side 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 one person i'm not sure how most will have a new leader. certainly 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 that 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 of me thank you very much for joining us here on our team thank you. but i think. this is right for you and you will be on. the road we thank you so you get your money. if you want to have sex go and have sex.

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eve. parties and top stories the e.u. is taking to impose tougher economic sanctions on syria governments after failing to rosa pressure on president obama three new and draft resolution that was blocked by russia and china. and russia's foreign minister calls western reaction to the double b.t.o. indeed the atmospheric call ahead of his trip to damascus i think that finding a political solution to the ongoing crisis. also ensuring greater political involvement for the people who the internet prime minister pointedly about his plans to upgrade russian democracy a day after mass protests the anti-government rallies swept the country. plus the

russian lothian's minorities hopes for their language to be officially recognized in the post soviet baltic states are marred by reports of intimidation being used to dissuade people from taking part in an upcoming referendum. kates here now with the latest sport. that is why they are living most of the headlines. the new york giants once again produce a late comeback to break nearing the end with the super bowl twenty one seventy eight indianapolis. and guilty alberto contador stripped of his tour de france title and picked up a two year ban for a failed drug test. on track to russia's olympic champion and they said no we forced the biggest leap of the year the countries are pleats shine in moscow. but

first the new york giants are the winners of super bowl forty six off the quarterback eli manning led his side to a dramatic twenty one seventeen victory of the new england patriots in indianapolis just as it did four years ago when the giants ruined new england's perfect season in the resigned well this time around the giants with a fast out of the blocks lucas oil stadium manning combining with victor cruz and nine mills lead however new england responded and had their noses in front at half time thanks to a field goal and a touchdown to tom brady danny woodhead. and the momentum state of the patriots after the intermission stretching that leads to seventy nine i'm going to find a ball to bury him on this for another touchdown. there's still time for a fight back a pair of field goals brought the giants to within two points seventeen fifteen. and then took the lead with the late dr firstly marion manning includes a thirty eight yard pass for manning the next to the disk.