dismiss the document as president clean motivated so you mohammad marandi a professor at the university of toronto thinks it's unlikely the timing is purely coincidental. the iranians are saying that this report came at a sensitive time to sort of distract attention away from this iranian success the nonaligned movement. conference in tehran has been highly successful inside of iran being isolated the united states has become isolated scented opposed senior figures going to tehran and many major world leaders have come to the country in addition the president of egypt and iran which is a political earthquake the iranians are producing uranium. enriched uranium at twenty percent for facilities in iran we should then produce medical isotopes the fact that the united states and the europeans tried to prevent iran

from obtaining that fuel in the past that meant that they were taking the iranian cancer patients hostage the irony here is that the iranians at the beginning had no intention whatsoever to produce twenty percent and then produce nuclear fuel but the americans and the europeans by taking in citizens and people hostage forced the iranians to take that step the politicians senior politicians really know that an attack on iran would be devastating for the united states and not only for its economy but for its global position and its credibility. despite washington clearly not favoring military confrontation with iran israel isn't ruling it out major drills simulating missile strikes in case of a war with the islamic state have been held in tel aviv and those emergency exercises are not the only way israelis are being prepared for an attack as our middle east correspondent paula slayer found out. this

fifteen page emergency brochure is being distributed by the israeli army plus the country and it puts a father's smiling face on very serious and grim statistics the brush it takes about what people should do in a state of emergency it says that there is a need for family told the family should get together and talk about what to do if this country is in a state of crisis at the same time it says that anywhere between fifty fifty and three minutes is the time frame that israelis will have from the moment fire and sound until there is a state of emergency there and also urging people to go and check that they bomb shelters up to scratch how the pressure doesn't make any mention of any kind of the army ran but certainly it is giving some kind of urgency and there have been those who suggested that it is really the day to hit by israeli politicians in preparation for human and war and certainly we've heard that kind of repeated coming out of these maybe political elite some officials have said that we're looking at

a civilian counted some five hundred people in any kind of war that would follow and it's raining strike on the run parallel to the brochure there is an advert that you might think on israeli television and it shows a way in general we sit with these maybe army officers and they're trying to convince him to give their support in an israeli attack on an enemy state presumably the ranch the general at that stage take a bite of the chocolate hazelnut that sitting in front of him and he said something along the lines of let's go nuts which the israelis misinterpret to mean that he has given them the green light for the operations of the missiles not to fall fly and you have those who are on the situation the israelis so we have been putting up there with me and it does seem as if there is something on the go we have heard some israeli politicians on record saying that a strike on iran is going to happen soon but the official line to be from the government in terms of. this procedure and when we thought was that it is nothing

more than just the general public awareness campaign that people need to know what to do in eight states in the. twenty. seven still out on r t i started ling discovery in the black sea could have exposed hundreds of thousands of summer tourists to dangerous chemicals plus. have you been watching not at all why not because i don't like either one of those guys with america's election season coming into the homestretch the president is in new york to see if anyone is even paying attention. i had a family i lived in a fairly nice community wasn't rich it was an upscale it was just like you know our society ok then they started showing up what happened was my company decided i could get cheap labor and they got rid of. these there. was

a legally legally we have to get up every morning we have to go to work and you know we have to pay our bills and we have to do it and that's just the american dream and if you want the american dream you have to go by the laws i figure is here's one of the major trails in united states. i watch and they run run down my property and about this noise. all this legal. notice from legal wire is protecting the country i'm the kind of guy who doesn't mindedness pants dirty so i come out here you know we're all immigrants as well know that we all came from somewhere else oh. oh.

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make your statement. spread the word. coupon st. lucia would be soon which will brighten if you move about song from tongues to freshen. me for instance on t.v. dot com. thank you for joining our team the power of love the games in london are underway but thousands of athletes to find disabilities just to compete but among the sponsors is

a company which accused all of which is accused of leaving many physically impaired people defeated and to check that artist laura smith has the details. the paralympics are the ultimate display of triumph over adversity a showcase for people who've overcome their disabilities and achieved something amazing but hanging over this event is a shadow cast by may just sponsor at toss it's the firm the government's paying to assess disabled people's ability to work but it's blamed for humiliating the vulnerable and forcing people off benefits as part of the country's austerity drive but they are making money out of other people's misery quite naturally the old many of them sponsoring the paralympics is i think is really lost on them and he seems to divide people into the deserving to save and the un serving tony bradstock went through an at or sest moment which resulted in him losing his entire income for six months he says he was made to feel like

a criminal and the process resulted in him attempting suicide work into session was going for the worst it's possible i would say this was it. because they said explosive watch explosive what more occupational health doctor a shade took a great knowledge from others because i couldn't find any why i took over the roof over my head. anyway i'd say he's not alone pressure groups say thirty two people died a week after being found fit to work by at officers disabled people and other activists have travelled here from all over the country to protest against at all says sponsorship of the arab league makes there you really see it in their admiration for the paralympics themselves but say an organization and they feel that she ordinary disabled people should play no part in this so take it. in

a statement the company defends its practices and passes responsibility back to the government department for work and pensions which actually makes the final decision . we do not make decisions and people's benefit in thailand or on welfare policy but who continue to make sure the disservice who grew wide is a highly professional and compassionate as it can be but disability activists say that's just passing the buck and that at us is sponsorship of the games gives it a whitewash it doesn't deserve they're trying to clean up their image by trying to associate themselves with sport you know this is so disability and people's activity has really given the other side of the road house call for loans thank you michael to team g.b. athletes appeared to hide the atolls branding on their power olympic accreditation during the opening ceremony but activists say that's not enough when at alston the

government expect to cause a round hole for a million people to lose their independent living benefits in the next four years laura smith r.t. . and we've got more news on the paralympic games for you at our website r.t.e. dot com as well as some other stories you may have missed on the air. insulting devastatingly funny learn how a new british sitcom split the muslim audience in the u.k. . was making money the easy way learn how a talented swindler cheated billions of dollars out of trust fall investors. charges are wont to be filed against dozens of cia officers accused of torturing two terror suspects to death to tension facilities in iraq and afghanistan the u.s. justice department officially closed its investigation saying it didn't have enough evidence for a conviction allison aware from the counsel for the national interest believes the

basic rules of law have been thrown out by washington. many of us feel that this is not the image that we are opposed to what went on and that there should be true justice and true pursuit of justice gone which we have not seen yet the cia destroying some of the tapes that in itself is a criminal action that that itself shouldn't been pursued. hopefully will be pursued something so the fact that there may be some difficulty in gathering evidence we don't know that's really the case but part of the difficulty certainly is because important evidence was destroyed there are still people in in the united states as well as around the world who are outreach to what's going. on but this has been a you know this is the george w. bush administration's activities being carried on by the obama administration actions as well i think they did expect that

a great many liberals especially the conservatives to would be outraged at this violation of the rule of law and that's probably why this was announced as you say after you know a number of years that the announcement came the day before a major holiday in the united states the labor day holiday i don't think that that coincidence is by accident us presidential nominee mitt romney closed out this year's republican national convention with some harsh criticism of barack obama and his handling of foreign affairs but did americans take any notice the resident as a new york to find out. in the us republicans and democrats are holding their national conventions and they hear the media and politicians talk about them that the most important things going on right now so who's watching and what have they seen this week let's talk about that have you been watching not why not because i don't like either one of those

guys so you don't watch and you don't vote and that's that no i do vote but i don't like voting for the word who's who's not the worst of the two. but do you need to watch the conventions to be informed no it's all crap have you been watching you know absolutely none of it why now but i hate the republicans are you going to watch the democratic convention probably not why now but i don't need to do you think that there is actual information being said sad at the conventions or a say just kind of a b.s. but i think it's sort of you know sounds good on camera do you think that. conventions actually do anything you know. spend money our money our money how do you feel about that i don't like that. how do we get them to stop because you know romney's going to say leave town. the content is not so much the poor important as the outside how people perform that that's my first impression that people are

choosing the heads not the contents i think most of europeans are through obama and that's it's but you need to watch any of the bad never. really want to show us that i was really i mean congress or us is smarter than that that was really awful i'm sure what better way irritates me is that these people aren't too bad she's really think we're stupid what are they covering up well that she's a very intelligent lighty but i mean she says she sat there for an hour striking mitt romney so you go well you know americans smarter than that you know that way i mean america needs someone to stand up and take charge i think a little it's face it. for themselves that's it i give up on it but don't they when i mean you're not happy with the way things are going and so the solution you've chosen is to check out doesn't that mean they they went. yes. yes so it seems like most people aren't even watching but if you do decide to tune in and remember to watch it for what it is extremely calculated very expensive showmanship

designed to influence the way you think whether or not that works is up to you. somehow take a look at some other world news and brief for you this hour at least twelve people including ten civilians have been killed in central afghanistan a suicide attack near a local military base more than fifty others were also loaned it first a bomber on foot detonated himself apparently to clear the way for a truck which followed him exploding shortly after the taliban have already claimed responsibility for the blasts. thousands of protesters occupied the main highway leading to bahrain's capital to demand freedom and a democratic government the demonstrators held up banners and flags urging the release of jail to activists leader the shia majority by her in which is ruled by

western backed sunni dynasty has been torn on restaurant protests since last year. at least two people have been killed in a supermarket shootout in new jersey as an ex marine sprayed sixteen rounds from his rifle at coworkers and then shot himself a gunman terence tyler left his night shift but return shortly after with an assault rifle and a handgun to find fourteen people still inside tyler reportedly suffered from depression and had even tweeted about going on killing sprees. opposition activists have taken to the streets of mexico after enrique pena nieto was declared president following your two month legal struggle the electorial court said the outcome was correct and within legal limits but lopez obrador who made claims of violations during the campaign and voting said he may not accept the

decision. of the future of the crimea as holiday friendly beaches is at stake due to a danger at the bottom of the black sea parties on exit a ship ski looks at what lies beneath. locals in the crimea admit that the tourist season this year may have been better but still we're talking hundreds of thousands of stories from all over the world who have come here for summer holidays but none of them are aware that swimming in the sea here might actually be dangerous this summer dozens of dead dolphins washed up on crimean shores ecologists say this is down to an infection and the actions of local poachers but others have connected these deaths to something more sinister divers recently discovered these barrels containing poisonous gas which were dumped in the sea by the retreating soviet army prior to the nazi invasion of one nine hundred forty one if poisonous substances are released into the sea water the consequences could be on imaginable he breathed

gas can theoretically kill everything within forty kilometers however the state ecological watchdog firmly denies this threat even exists. are divers and specialists from the interior ministry check the bottom of the sea or the board tori's tested water for poisonous substances and we found nothing. but this recently declassified documents suggest the opposite in two thousand and four crimea's authorities urged private colleges to check the coastline for threats that is when those containers were found former m.p. oleksandr couzin is probably the only politician in ukraine who is making comments on the issue because she says the authorities are deliberately keeping the public in the dark and you ship it with it now that's a mentality of local bureaucrats who come in for a year or two now face and don't want this problems on their hands meanwhile more and more kids who turned this virus infections from crimea's summer holidays and this is definitely caused by travel archaeologic state of the sea water coolers

says lifting those containers from the bottom of the sea is impossible they will fall apart that's why experts suggest a different solution if. there's a technology which allows to see all these containers all for seven hundred. years underground succumb focus is constructed and put above the decaying barrels this would solve the problem. it is hard to estimate how much this kind of operation would cost but as long as these barrels are a threat to every black sea country key of would most certainly get international aid should it appeal for help this year's tourist season has finished with no major incidents but some say that next year unless there's urgent political action the region may not be so lucky alexi russia of ski r.t. reporting from crimea in ukraine. to try and stay with our back the recap of our top stories shortly.

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a major sponsor it's accused of forcing people with disabilities back to work when they are physically unable. now ahead of the bicentennial of the battle of the know all talks to historian david marco about whether napoleon was a hero or one of history's greatest villains that spotlight on our team and it's here in just a moment. welcome to the spotlight and to the show on our team. and today my guest on the show is david marr and we'll talk about. her. as being two hundred years since one of the greatest was in your kids in summer eighteen twenty one of our to invaded russia the russian army made the french chase

them just drive them away from the capital which at that time was the st petersburg after a bloody battle near moscow napoleon captured the city but the russian burned down and the french were forced to retreat to the fiasco of the russian campaign was the turning point of napoleonic wars in europe it's against the french forces and severely shook the emperor's reputation so what were the lessons learned from the war and why is the loser still considered the greatest. will discuss it with david mark president of the head of marshall napoleon it's a start. in the beginning of the nineteenth century after napoleon had conquered a large part of europe he himself was considered a monster and even an anti christ by a song but two centuries of paused and added years to him have changed dramatically

in the west a lot of historians consider him a remarkable military figure and compare him to alexander the great and julius caesar mr david mark him as one of those who have dedicated themselves to napoleonic history he's one of the most competent experts in this field and head of the international napoleonic society. who welcomes the show thank you. great pleasure to be here thank you very much for coming in without first of all do that you have dedicated your life you have dedicated yourself to to to. napoleon and to. more about this great personally certainly he is a great he was a great personally but what inspired you personally what inspired you most in the poll you have been appointed well the answer is probably different than you might anticipate it was actually my father when i was a very young lad would tell me stories about napoleon and then about caesar and

alexander and some others and he had been a war correspondent he was a journalist like yourself and although he was in print and and he brought back. postcards that showed liaison bullied you know were napoleon's buried in the arctic tree off and stuff and he would tell me stories and and it just serve stuck and over the years my interest went up and down as such things go and then back in the eighty's when the bicentennial of the french revolution was about to take place and there was all sorts of stuff going on about the french revolution and the polian and and i took a class and then the paper that i wrote for the class the professor said oh you should submit this to be published and i did and it was published and that opened the floodgates i've got a quote from one of you would see you say there could napoleon bonaparte is career has been virtually matched in is truly only alexander the great and julius caesar

made a claim to comparable lives and influence on the history and quote what influence left by. napoleon. do you think had the most the most lost thing effect on people in history on no question about the polio on which was initially the code. seville the civil code that he had a huge hand and writing the whole thing himself and the group that worked with them didn't always even let him get his way on some things he wanted more liberal divorce law for example then it ended up being put in the code. well. well when you're in peru don't have to worry too much about that sort of thing but never never never the less that was a very progressive civil code combined. hundreds and hundreds of royal decree as in

a reasonable laws and so forth and so on and finally gave a unified civil code so that no matter where you went in the country you you you were under the same same laws and then that code was expanded into a number of the areas of the empire including even in the united states where i'm one of one of our states. louisiana operates under the civil good bit before he wrote the civil code he actually betrayed the idealism of the true blue shield which actually made him what he became this isn't that what do you did that were you when you were a kid well i'm not so sure that i completely agree he believed in the equality which was one of the three aspects of the slogan go to the cinema solution for turning to some extent but as you know liberty also although and states of war you have some restrictions of liberty he certainly did.