criteria what worries them is where the review would be able to afford it especially with the alarming number of those fleeing last year hundreds of thousands have already left the country in the wake of the recession and experts are already speculating on the was scary scenarios a lot to be sure to join the euro zone a violent greek like outcome is not ruled out but a mass exodus is the most likely case let's see reporting from latvia or to financial guru max kaiser and his co-host always keen to expose who they think are behind the government global economic mess kaiser report coming your way later today here's a preview. greek authorities say a major armed robbery carried out ancient olympia museum now my first instinct was wow this is the headline from a.p. that there are mainstream media is actually starting to report what is happening to greece in the real terms of what has happened there right well my media thought was my god did britain steal the elgin marbles again. until apparently it's

a new band of thieves and they're taking everything but the elgin marbles and of course you find this at the nexus of any wholesale devastation that's occurred in an economy that's been gutted by thieves and bankers in the city of london or on wall street. south korea's held a lot of fire war drill on islands near its disputed naval border with the north killing young promise to retaliate calling drills a premeditated military provocation two years ago north korea responded to a similar military exercise from its neighbor with an artillery attack that killed four erics arrived in cow co-founder of a campaign to end the korean war thinks the war games are aimed at hampering upcoming talks between the north and the us. well at this point we are not

surprised that some type of provocation has taken place and i think it is a provocation the united states and north korea are about to start bilateral talks next week in beijing this is about the nuclear program and about food aid and perhaps twenty third a treaty to finally end the korean war but here we have an election year in south korea and hoover we have live military exercises in not only disputed waters but waters that really under international law belong to north korea it would be quite easy to sit down and do. some talking i mean it's not rocket science to dialogue with people we have a profound difference with to use president obama's words so what we look for our bilateral talks other talks the north koreans have been pretty consistent according to president carter former president carter the united states that they would give

up any nuclear program in exchange for peace and normalized relations with the united states and i really look for countries like russia who's in a perfect position to really step forward and demand finally a peace treaty take place between south korea the and north korea but more importantly as well between the united states and north korea so that we can have an ease of tensions in the area taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe ali abdullah saleh he's thirty three year reign over yemen will come to an end this week as voters elect a new president but sali as vice president is the only choice on the ballot a single candidate election it was a condition of the power transfer deal signed by sally last november after ten months of protests and pressure for him to step down the vote makes him in the first arab country where uprising led to a negotiated settlement. thirty people have died in nigeria when the islamic sect

of boko haram threw explosives opened fire in the side of the northeastern city inside a market in the northeastern city of my degree home to the insurgent group the attack set off a gunfight with nigeria's joint task force in which eight boko haram members were killed this sect has been behind several deadly bombings throughout nigeria that have killed more than two hundred since january. the sixth state of emergency has been declared in several pervy and provinces after heavy rains flooded entire towns thousands of residents were forced to leave their regions after their homes were swamped military planes been delivering food aid for the rainy season that typically starts in january has resulted in the spread of dengue fever which has killed more than a dozen people since october. headlines coming your way in a few minutes but first the business news with maria.

hello and welcome suppose this. russian companies across a number of sectors are becoming second they're victims of the sanctions against iran the united states has tied some assumptions on the iranian banking system and the russian railways warns its infrastructure projects in the country are under threat it's a situation the boss of the company says is simply unfair here we think should be clear and transparent and if this sumptuous of the united nations. do not include some sort of a gaze a normal economical corporation in some but you call a fool's or why only one country. the road to consume the functions should be imposed on different banks of different countries just because they are keeping. your credit credit history

incorporating with but you cure but you are going to zation in that country in order to construct railways. to make about averts a russian gas pipeline projects in europe than a book or routes could be downsized the wall street journal science sources close the consortium behind the project as saying the group is considering cutting its capacity and length now in the buka has long been europe's preferred alternative to russia routes as it seeking to diversify supplies the pipeline is expected to deliver gas from central asia but experts have questioned the region's ability to fill the origin and a planned route. investors are pricing in the recent reports saying the european finance ministers have agreed on a new bailout deal for goods the hundred m. thirty billion euro rescue package should help cut the countries that surround the hundred twenty one percent of gross domestic product and about eight years but experts say it's not enough to revive the nation's troubled economy now let's take

a look at the numbers that will start with oil first crew this still trading in the year the highest level in eight months after iran halted the oil sales to british and french companies w.t. i is trading close to one hundred five dollars per barrel while the brand blood is over one hundred twenty dollars per barrel. ok let's take a look at all the markets u.s. markets are closed for president's day we know on europe and it's pretty upbeat the situation there the french finance minister says all the elements are now in place for greece to get its next trade out the moment london's footsie is a real quarters of a percent in the black and germany's dax is gaining just under one and a half percent. here in russia after a positive run on monday the markets have made a u. turn into negative territory and they're still there now both the arts us and the my socks are losing over one percent the sallis take a look at some individual share moves on to my sex so we see here that energy

majors are doing a better than the market on stronger proof prices but gas from is shutting over half a percent while google is dropping over one percent i'm banking stocks are among the top losers with me to be bank dropping more than one and a half percent the sour. term secular currencies the euro is rising slightly to the dollar not some reports about the new bailout for greece stronger oil is pushing the ruble higher against the u.s. currency bought it's too low against the european one. russia's and bush's move to create alpine ski resorts in the caucasus region is gathering speed billions of dollars worth of investment are still required but in the pitch to ensure national investors the company behind the project says it will pay off more quickly than comparable resorts in europe. we think the breakeven period should be five to ten years maximum even with this period the rate of return will be tempted fifteen percent that's

a very good rate of return compared to europe and as you suggest a levy a sing a special economic zone in sochi kind of benefits with a spring. house for tax benefits this will mean zero income tax for ten years after a company is a stablished will also zero real estate tax were also discussing with the finance ministry the possibility to offer subsidies at two thirds of the seabees refinance rate for those who build facilities this prayer but as we too because the stock was there on the sale of course the project to develop new results in the caucuses is estimated it up to eighteen billion dollars with the state providing to begin with because how much progress have you made raising the rest. read our business plans were a big foreign companies and hope to start construction next year there is a big domestic market ten to fifteen million russians who could become clients of these resorts and for. and that's how business looks the south i'm also as you can

always had to our website that's our two dot com business but in the meantime decision for the headlines with markets by front. oh i see. it's all designed to keep you close in your own small world as

a prison. you know you leave somebody in there for a couple hours like that in a stress positions. you have this fear of the unknown in this stress sort of building and. i've seen interrogations go on ten twelve hours they chose songs i remember from marilyn manson. slayer the two songs would be angel of death and raining blood to kill the enemy going through war coming up here into iraq coming into baghdad. johnny put the body sort of for just a rock n roll bad it was fitting for the job we were doing. well with a. good piece of the looking glass at what will be the homes of the future where

the walls might just be smarter than the residence every day trash protects you from the elements outside and the whole system works to see. the shine the spotlight on the leaders of building projects all around russia technology i'm here . twelve thirty pm in moscow you zero r.t. had lie fresh attempt to negotiate a serious ceasefire this time by the red cross as people of high hopes and evident referendum on a new constitution will help end the violence. u.n. nuclear inspectors visited iran for the second time in less than a month terran hoping talks will help prove its nuclear program has no military purpose. and the eurozone strikes a long awaited deal on

a second ballot for greece after austerity measures the in the you demanded of athens to secure the package sparked riots in the debt stricken country. up next we discussed the conflict in syria with former us presidential advisor pat buchanan the interview coming up. i'm sitting down with patrick buchanan senior adviser to presidents which mixing gerald ford and ronald reagan he ran for the presidency three times he wrote many books and some of his books have really manage seeing titles his latest book is called suicide of a superpower a will america survive to twenty twenty five very pessimistic sir first of all thank you very much for joining me thank you with regards to foreign policy are saying one of the ways to prevent that suicide from happening is to dismantle the empire first thought would do you mean by empire or you might call it the american

imperium or the american empire. the united states has military bases dating back to the cold war in europe and asia the middle east africa all over the world and we're running a deficit of ten percent of our gross national product and quite frankly we can't afford any longer in my judgment to continue to carry this enormous burden of defending forty or fifty countries around the world and so i think we're going to have to dismantle these bases we're going to have to return back from asia come back from up the middle east and south asia and i think we'll have to bring the troops home from europe you were writing and speaking out extensively about the bush era in iraq crusade under the banner of ending terror name in the world do you think that crusade is still long or the idea that we're going to end tyranny in the world is utterly utopian we never are we've had tyrants from time immemorial

and what do you not good state should do in my judgment in its foreign policies is build a defense establishment strong enough to protect our vital interests and our vital allies and when problems arise whether it's in zimbabwe or somewhere else the people there have got to deal with their own prob. there's no doubt about it that throughout history tyrants have arisen and seized power in one place or another and as long as they don't threaten our vital interests or threaten and kill our people the fact that they rule and or misrule certain countries is none of our business while some of bin laden successor said he supports the war against us and sorry i am and al qaeda was reportedly behind the four suicide bombings which killed scores of syrian officials and soldiers seen damascus and aleppo aleppo doesn't it seem strange that the us is on the same side with the whole kiting syria well it did it

does indeed the atlas and the the outside government has been has been ruthless and brutal and suppressing the uprising and the insurgency against it not as brutal as this father was tough as all assad who slaughtered twenty thousand people in hama in one nine hundred eighty two and they rose up and it would probably be a good thing if he departed and they had a more democratic government but your point is well taken the united states should ask itself not only what is the character of this regime but the first question should be do we have a vital interest in who rule syria my answer to that is no secondly if the incumbent government is overthrown who comes to power and syria you have the muslim brotherhood is trying to overthrow assad you have al qaeda apparently which is moving in trying to overthrow assad so we've got to ask ourselves is the devil we

know preferable to the devil we don't know but in the syrian situation i think the very fact that al qaeda has been involved apparently indeed for suicide attacks should tell us that we ought to be wary about overthrowing all. or participating in a movement to overthrow assad before we know what's going to replace him as you said it's very hard to tell what's going to happen to syria if more radical forces seize power do you think the u.s. foreign policy might be helping terrorists indirectly i think the united states. american strategists would have to be fools not to see what al qaeda is doing not to ask the question if it's good for al qaeda can it be good for us and not to look at assad and say he may be a ruthless dictator and what he's doing but what comes after him when he falls i

think al qaeda does its best work or it works best when it finds a country that is fundamentally a failed state in yemen somalia afghanistan under the taliban and i think in those conditions that's where al qaida can plan and recruit far better than it can when you have a a regime which is a hard line regime running the situation whether it's secular or whether syria torn apart by civil war and that that's i think it seems like a good environment for that i think i think that seriously. syria is really a potential disaster in that we could have there are a proxy war between the sunni and shia all over that region there already have sunni coming in from iraq they already have al qaeda in there apparently the you could have also a conflict ethnic conflict with the druze in there and the kurds in there as well

as herbs in there i think this is why i'm against plunge putting weapons in and aiding the anti assad resistance because an all out war there could be a disaster which leaves a failed state in syria so what about the strategy that the u.s. is now pursuing putting pressure on assad alone. and not addressing the armed groups the fighting armed groups among the opposition as well well i think that's basically the united states has taken sides in this war we've taken sides there just like we've taken sides in libya what should or what should not the u.s. do here in syria. my policy would if i were and if i were in the white house would be by and large hands off syria in one of your articles you argue that the obama administration doesn't want to war with iran and the pentagon u.s. intelligence community they're saying iran does not having

a clear bomb and hasn't decided whether or not to build a nuclear bomb iran is obviously getting nothing from a war if nobody wants it then why the drums of war why are they so loud there are people that want to war. i mean i do not think no one wants a war you don't have wars unless someone wants it and quite clearly the israeli government would like to see the united states smash iran's nuclear program which they think is creating the conditions where iran could with one leap forward get a bomb the israeli lobby in the united states would like to see where they support is really the neoconservatives do many republicans do there are many americans who genuinely believe that if iran they believe iran is moving toward a weapon and if it is they would favor military action to prevent it there are a number of people that want a war and if there are really vital threat coming from the i don't you see i don't

know i don't look iran is not iraq i mean during the cold war with due respect soviet union had thousands of weapons they could have destroyed us in an afternoon and we could have done the same thing i was around during the cuban missile crisis that was genuinely term fine but iran doesn't frighten me and i don't think it should frighten the american people they don't have a bomb they don't have they haven't made a decision to bill one didn't have the means to deliver one and the israelis have three hundred atomic bombs i mean who presents the existential threat to whom the last they were it was i visited one of my doctors and we were talking about i hope we don't have a war in iran but now they're talking about intervention in syria and he said thank god for the russians they've got some ships out there and the americans won't fool around with the russian ships so the russians are keeping us out and that's

wonderful. that's one of my doctors but i think that's that's what the american public thinks i don't think any american wants to intervene in syria they don't understand anything about it iran though they got the ayatollah and they got him out in the job. and he will always help out the hawks with some insane statement every couple of months he's going to destroy somebody or other and then the americans say we have to get him or what is the danger danger of such rhetoric the danger of such rhetoric is that it leads to another war in the middle east which i think would be a disaster for my country and i think it would be a disaster for the world economy and other could be a disaster for the world you know i opposed desert storm back in one nine hundred ninety one i opposed even going in and clean and said i'm hussein out of kuwait because i said this will only be the first arab american war and i was right i mean if you talk about islamic wars you had the war desert storm you had the war

against afghanistan you've got the war in iraq and the war in libya now they're talking about syria and now they're talking about iran. of what benefit has this been to the united states when you see where we were in one thousand nine hundred and where we are today and where china was in one thousand nine hundred and where china is today i am going into any of these countries haven't invaded anybody and they're moving upward as is brazil and as are india and what do we do one in all these places i don't think we can you can't replicate the middle west in the middle east thank you thank you.

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a little bit of. a fresh attempt to negotiate a cease fire in syria this time by the red cross' people have high hopes an eminent reform referendum on a new constitution will help end the bloodshed. u.n. nuclear inspectors visited iran for the second time in less than a month with terror on hoping talks will help to prove its nuclear program has no military purpose. heroes on strikes a long awaited deal on a second ballot for greece after austerity measures the e.u. demanded of athens to secure the package sparked riots in the debt stricken country . politics with sport stay with us.

very much welcome to the world of sport here's what's coming up. the spanish inquisition says car moscow prepared to take on the legal leaders rail madrid in the first leg of their last sixteen champions league tie. one in one out russia's maria kirilenko which is the second round of the dubai tennis championships welcome partly it's because now it's over crashes out in round one. and the limbic dreams cattle had to become the first middle east country to host the summer olympics as it fades for the twenty twenty games. but first to football where around madrid on sas car moscow are preparing to go head to head in the champions league last sixteen tile a tour on tuesday the spanish giants arrive in the russian capital in excellent

form they season and as rich as one portly reports that we strong favorites to put their place in the quarterfinals. subzero temperatures well controlled simmering years team as they took to the luzhniki pitch ahead of tuesday's encounter the current leader leaders have a stunning array of talent at my disposal of the likes of christie on a row now though. i miss a very attacking options however the portuguese expects a tough month chicken serious car a team who's come up against on a number of occasions non-normal your my face is gone not only when i was the head coach will enter but also with chelsea back in two thousand and four they have a very stable squad which has been together for a number of years such as sarah getting a share which means that there is a brother's gale dornan and david a shameless waggle of may have left but they have brought in seattle and the commitment.