facing political deadlock. making. the bloody syrian crisis deep divisions between the key. to change iran's nuclear. with the easing of sanctions.

a pleasure to have you with us here today. with twenty four. election that was meant to dig. out of crisis is now adding political deadlock to economic distress. coalition has managed to secure a clear majority in either house of parliament but the country now stuck between options on the right. there's also a major new force emerging in the party led by a comedian who won a quarter of all. back with a vengeance he's just a ship. a man of some political experts have a political corpse just a couple of months ago. actually seems to be holding a really good. seats in the senate but again he is tied with. the number one position in the senate now if we look at the lower house however parliament does

seem like the majority of the. claimed victory there but you have to understand that this is not because so many people have voted for him it is because. of the law. even by the tiniest margin and that is exactly the situation in this case. as well as in you are all essentially tied in the parliament as well so what we have at this point is a total deadlock we have ended up with. parliament and that's what some of the newspaper headlines. this morning is that the country is at this point there's no clear solution and it does seem like three lections are a very very high possibility for. the third biggest economy in the eurozone what happens here is vital for the economy. the bankers and politicians over in europe.

because. total. total despair. is lost the one thing that they have they have made clear is that they have had enough of. the technocrats from brussels and. not really saying yes to any one single party. that has been implemented and so we're doing everything. not. just willing to do anything even voting for a man. who is totally inexperienced and he's not really a politician basically voting for anybody. this is this is what's happening in italy right now. we're going to be reporting that when the vote which is also crucial for the eurozone alternately triggered a roller coaster on the markets as the results were pouring in and that's exactly what i discussed a bit earlier in the program without sees tom bot. so ultimately for

a long certainty is rocking the boat of global markets they are indeed roaring i mean it must be said that yesterday as it seemed that bersani blocked a decent majority the markets were up but then again as berlusconi's bloc drew level again today down the mile they go again so we've got four point seven percent down on italy's footsie or the markets in europe and beyond down one point five to two percent and we've got to tell you in bond yields going up that showing the the nervousness of investors seeing this political standoff and economic uncertainty in italy it should be noted berlusconi left in late two thousand and eleven because of his poor financial record primarily and montes ended up with ten percent of the vote which shows how fed up the talons are it's incredible that so mary want to squeak by with ten percent and then the when berlusconi's numbers

start coming up the markets start going down you talk about political uncertainties and rocking the boat when it comes to the global markets certainly these issues and the issues of fixed interest rates are being addressed by the one and a nice guys in the kaiser report today let's have a quick listen and see what's coming up very shortly here on r.t. in this case there were thousands of e-mails between thousands of traders or actually a few dozen traders saying set the library at a rate that is not true righ it for me and they're saying that this is somehow complicated that we can't do anything about it because there are signs of innocence outside this circle of the actual writers and innocent act being committed somewhere in the universe should we apply a standard of guilt or this admission of guilt by a just basic yet just b.c. admitted that there are a lot of money and financing terrorism but somebody somewhere down innocent x. something in a parallel universe perhaps so can we call it just b. c. guilty can we give you say oh oh oh wow their story thousand mexicans headless because we've got a lottery they just be a good business terrorist but should we care because after all somebody can. it is

an act somewhere. and i do stay with us for the report a bit later on but for now the bloody conflict in syria this claimed at least seventy thousand lives in just the past two years this is what russia and america's top diplomat sort of discussing tonight him lin their role is key mediate is now the main challenge is to stop violence vienna goshi ations the syrian government has said it's ready to talk but the rebels have refused they're demanding international action against the regime russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says the opposition is split. solution there have been voices in the opposition supporting talks without preconditions then there's been backtracking on this approach apparently extremists have prevailed in the ranks of the opposition who are pushing for a military resolution of the conflict and blocking dialogue. well the syrian rebels

have released a new video i mean to show their advanced attack on government forces. in the rebel fighter apparently shoot down a syrian helicopter with a missile of voices in the background and you could hear right that shopping gold is great as the fell out of the skies. supposedly took place near the city of aleppo and last week rebel officials said they had received a new batch of heavy weaponry from outside sponsors not just across the jordanian border. now the taking of sides in the syrian conflict is one of the issues dividing russia and the u.s. as they discuss the crisis later on tuesday as aunties and he said now reports syria is not the only issue sort of often john kerry will be discussing in then. conflict in syria miss out on defense and u.s.

expansion of projects in eastern europe plus iran and north korea's nuclear programs amid test and escalating rhetoric these issues have been on the table for years now let's take a closer look at some of them syria ripped apart by violence for two years now a militant opposition there trying to force out president also that russia from the beginning has pushed for a diplomatic solution and avoiding intervention at all costs while saying that time is limited moscow still believes negotiations are the way to go the u.s. has constantly called for asa to step down while supporting rebels despite them not being able to unify or willing to sit down for talks with asad a strictly one sided solution although recently the obama administration has taken a more distant tone on syria perhaps thanks to fallout from other arab spring countries like libya and egypt the nuclear ambitions of iran and north korea remain high on the agenda especially with north korea's recent underground test but again

while both russia and the u.s. condemn any nuclear steps or weaponization the two differ greatly on how to deal with them russia's against threats of more sanctions or further isolation while the u.s. has gone as far as saying military intervention it's not off the table especially in the case of iran in europe and u.s. plans to expand on missile defense systems and russia's concerns over its national security are considered the number one issue to have sidetracked a so-called reset but a shadow over bilateral relations is now russian children adopted by american parents the latest russian child to die might seem mean three years old only moscow was informed of the tragedy a month after mark seems death his legs head and internal organs allegedly severely bruised maxie was adopted. a u.s. family from the same orphanage as dimitri yakovlev died of heat stroke in two

thousand and eight after being left inside an overheated car you have good lives name is now the title of a rush limbaugh that prohibits the adoption of russian children by u.s. citizens but critics say the law it's too harsh while supporters claim it's the only thing to be done until the u.s. can assure the safety of russian adoptees and adequate justice for violent crimes against children. right now another of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief for he faces his latest battle today coming up a report on chuck hagel. being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan stuff. so i just after ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital britain's unemployment benefits aim to provide a safety net for anyone between jobs looking for the next career opportunity for some the payouts are so attractive getting out of bed to go to work doesn't seem

quite worth it. reports i couldn't really believe my luck to be on. a dream i thought this is amazing you know british government is helping me out you know i needed somewhere to live and i don't have a job not the words you expect to hear from someone who's fallen on hard times housing benefits allowed stephanie to rent a flat in this sport block in london's glitzy mayfair and by myself i could always barely afford a studio in central london when i was working and. looking for a job so. it's a sprawling and complicated system but one that allows a family of four to claim up to thirty five thousand pounds a year from housing to child care and unemployment benefits i've known people. and afford new cars. brought on holiday i've never

actually been abroad on holiday before so how can they afford a good holiday when they're on benefits. and afford to do the welfare state was all the idea of a man who might well be turning in his grave william beverages an idea of the five giant evils of society squalor ignorance want this disease some of the very quality. that critics say the system encourages beverage was arctic welfare should only provide you with subsistence levels of support and it should only do so for a short period of top seventy years down the line and welfare spending is the biggest item of government expenditure milking it is so widespread it's become a source of satire you know the way told us here we've been on this boat you disability allowance i told you he worked at duncan's goku labor should be

used if you think that man is just ability allowance he's got a bone to see someone know which call boomeritis westminster now wants to make it clear that benefit on to a career path and coming through the doors of your local job and say yeah in and year out filling in a few forms and claiming your money is no longer an option but for people that have been through the experience of claiming unemployment benefit they say it's all too easy to get no money and no one's really checking whether or not you're genuinely looking for was. artsy london and i many more stories are just after a very short break i think you stay with us here not. well . it's technology innovations all the developments around

russia we've got the future covered. silence. does it. every day is a struggle. for our children. and women working in israel we've done more for our kids than alan has. phantoms in this life.

ok quarter past the hour moscow time this is our two with me rule received germany is boosting its arms sales to gulf monarchies and despite the grim human rights records of countries like saudi arabia bahrain. activists are sounding the alarm over the trend of choosing berlin of moral bankruptcy let's have a detailed look right now and see exactly how the total value of germany's approved exports did go out in the past year old to here we have one point four two billion euros and twenty twelve that is up compared to twenty eleven that was only at a mere five hundred and seventy million are saudi arabia the main recipient of the weapons with it shared twenty twelve being nine times bigger than the year before one after the other after the other after the other exports continue and

when it comes to reaction to this right now braun from germany's peace movement he says not only is all of this immoral the other day it's illegal. politics and it is also gave the law for the german law said there is not a. lot of that happening in conflicts we get only the reading is only full of conflicts not only between you and the neighbor who country also there are a lot of internal conflicts and you know it is. faster to the most little girls it is totally unacceptable for us they believe that the pride of eugene will have to secure german jews the resources we need from the region so it is only a profit business and it is a profit business on the back of the human right and the people that are suffering because there are under pressure and because of the slope and by the fact that. if

there is a lesson to be learned on the downside of arming dodgy regimes then events in north africa might help to prove it a new u.n. report says countries like mali suffering from uncontrolled gun traffic flowing from toppled regimes like libya also online for you as well that r.t. dot com right now a standoff on the high seas have a look at this video right here just cracking footage environmental activists clash with the two japanese whaling ships we've got this is some of the footage right here we've got the really dramatic shots waiting for you right now a click away at r.t. talk on. thank you for joining us here at artsy armory sushi a possible easing of sanctions the main bargaining chip for six world powers and

talks with iran over of course its ongoing nuclear activities the high level negotiations underway now in cuz it star the first since june but hopes for a breakthrough do with maine rather. the u.s. has signaled it could relax some penalties if indeed tehran holds that twenty percent uranium enrichment that is at a level that could ultimately lead to the production of a nuclear bomb but the e.u. is reportedly unwilling to make a similar move to iran has recently upgraded its enrichment capability is making its aims saying that his aims are purely peaceful and allowed within international law for washington to devise a gwenyth todd says western fears of a nuclear terror on not what's really behind the crippling sanctions on the whole and iranian drive. the iranians causation has been around and for five thousand years certainly longer than most questions on sanctions or any western civilizations and they're not suicidal and they know that's where they

simply are weapons they won't be obliterated washington has thing pushed in being pushed by israel for a long time to effect regime change in iran. and the nuclear program as an excuse to put pressure on iran to try to cause regime change but i'm not saying that a nuclear armed iran would be a good thing. but a nuclear armed any country is not a good thing but the pressure now behind pressure on iran and my opinion comes directly from israel desire for regime change in iran and why the united states government to make that happen. well all of the economic penalties imposed on iran over its nuclear energy program the oil export ban has certainly hit the country the hardest despite the fact that it's undoubtedly damaged the economy overall it's actually helped strengthen other industries in iran where

financial reports. the international ban on iranian oil cost the country around forty billion dollars in two thousand and twelve according to the u. but despite this huge gap in iran's income officials have some good news indeed harsh sanctions normal experts have increased by least thirty percent from ego. so what may look like a bad thing or may actually play a positive role we've been asking our government for many years to decrease dependence on oil to at least fifty percent was too high up around eighty percent making our economy too vulnerable that some say today is a historic opportunity to finally get rid of this dangerous oil dependence and iran actually has a lot of alternative resources to feed from from well known copperheads to dade's via minerals and stones but wanting destry in particular appears to be thriving

these days iran's famous discussions have been going through tough times in the last couple of years heavy frost and terrible droughts have been damaging large parts of the harvest but this year with the country under tough economic sanctions the stashes are doing better than ever. our currency ryall fell by almost forty percent in october but i sell the statues both at home and abroad and i've benefited from price rises that you read in the sessions or responses to more than a hundred countries worldwide but even if farmers cannot send them abroad they're confident business who remain great thousands of industry workers also benefit which has them overcome the country's highest ever inflation the amount of production and price of the shares affect our salaries every year the edge. ten to twenty percent of my salary busy and i have some bonus to my daily payments but producers seem to be more for taxes than exporters while international sanctions don't get the food industry current measures affected banking system making

financial transactions a hard nut to crack the also penalize the banks that. are not in u.s. and europe they may be in china or south america they penalize them for dealing with iraq that i mean that's the main problem which is actually illegal internationally if oil is a black gold the vista shows must be a green one at least for iran locals say these small knots have great house benefits especially for the man well to the country it also gives strength iran's biggest mall expert has always been a significant source of revenue and as the latest round of sanctions cautious ever bites it's also something iran may have to rely on even more than before. from iran. and into the r.t. world up there we go starting with colombian coffee growers who have clashed with police during

a rally to them on more government support for the industry in struggling due to a drop in international prices workers want the state to help by increasing subsidies demonstrators blocked roads and a number of towns but security forces said such tactics would not be tolerated. nineteen died in egypt after a hot have balloon packed with tourists exploded in before plummeting three hundred meters a pilot and a british man have survived the accident but both are in a state of critical condition the explosion was apparently caused by combustion in the gospel of. tourism officials say people from japan and hong kong and britain were among the dead. a rocket has been fired from gaza into israel causing some road damage but the high. this is the first time since november ceasefire it is seen as retaliation after a palestinian man died in israeli custody under disputed circumstances two thousand and twelve so a major conflict between the two rivals with more than one hundred killed in gaza

mostly civilians. and a bit later this hour here on r.t. will be bringing you an extended report on palestinian women ready to risk their own safety order to help safeguard their own children to stay with us for that. in silence. invisible. every day is a struggle. for our children soundly at night. we are palestinian women working in israel we've done it for our kids. as it's. we are phantoms in this life.

but later here when i say if an hour after a long partisan fueled standoff iraq obama's pick for secretary of defense is to be voted on later on tuesday chuck hagel drew the ire of republicans from the outset as some of his views put them at all with his own party and a rather lackluster performance at his initial confirmation hearing didn't help either he's got an h. to count as a story. a number of republican senators including john mccain say chuck hagel is not qualified for the job but they indicate that they're going to allow the full senate to vote because what happened ten days ago was that the senators voted to postpone the vote and to continue the debate so it's all likely that they're going to keep stalling the vote over confirmation and he will be confirmed there's no doubt about that the votes are there but the humiliation that he had to grow through during these last few months sent a message all by itself right now chuck hagel is this repenting figure who keeps apologizing for the positions he had taken before for the statements he had made

before including that war with iran should not be an option including his criticism of israel's actions and other foreign policy views that he had expressed as a senator the congress effectively showed their readiness to destroy anyone who would allow themselves to descend from washington's core foreign policy belief so despite all the apologizing that mr hague old has done one senator said he almost had tears in his eyes as he apologized for his earlier statement about the israeli about the influence of these really a lobby so despite all the repentance chuck hagel has still been under attack at some point the conservative media got so carried away that they misinterpreted someone's joke about charles association with a group of friends of hamas and they were in such a rush to break this story that they failed to check whether the group even exists and it doesn't so chuck hagel has been under attack not just for his previous statements but also for what he had never said and done. and if confirmed as the

new u.s. secretary of defense hagel will have to cope with the company long accused of using his cozy government ties to. justice last week private contractor academy four million known as blackwater a little more than a slap on the wrist over a new arms smuggling scandal michael o'brien author of a book called america's failure in iraq things that's essentially immune to prosecution. they're just follow on charges after the the debacle at mr square in baghdad september of two thousand and seven. course that was where the seventeen iraqis were were killed these are follow on charges that were. pushed against blackwater course that's the old name the company technically doesn't exist that way they can you know technically legally sever the relationship they dropped the charges three people were just let to walk to the charges were reduced to.