america. post vote hangover italians are facing political deadlock with no clear winner in the parliamentary elections meanwhile a protest party led by a former comedian is making a stunning debut. poles apart from russia and the u.s. seek agreement on how to add the bloody syrian crisis and meet deep divisions

between the key mediators. plus world powers look to change iran's nuclear course at major talks with the easing of sanctions offered in exchange for the suspension of uranium enrichment apparently the main deal on the table. good evening we've got world news and analysis live from our moscow headquarters i'm lucy catherine of and you're watching our t.v. well the election that was meant to dig a debt ridden italy out of the crisis is now adding political deadlock to economic distress no party or coalition has managed to secure a clear majority in either house of parliament for the country now stock but to stock pardon me between options on the right and the left there's also a new major force emerging with a party led by a former comedian winning

a quarter of all the votes. has more. back with a vengeance. a man of. a political force just a couple of months ago has. actually seems to be holding a really good. seats in the senate but again he is tied with. 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. a lot. to the party. even by the tiniest margin and that is exactly the situation in this case. as well as a new low are all essentially tied in the parliament as well so what we have

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 governor. and there does seem like reelections are a very very high possibility for. the third biggest economy in the eurozone what happens here is for the economy confidence the bankers and politicians over in europe. because. total. total disparity in the population is lost the one thing that they have made clear is that they have. technocrats from brussels it seems like. not really saying yes to any one single party the. policies that have been implemented and so we're doing everything. right

out of the economic crisis and just willing to do anything even voting for a man. who is totally new experience and he's not really politician basically voting for anybody. this is this is what's happening in italy right now. right we might have more for you on this story coming up later on this hour but for now as the markets lose ground sharply and the prospect of a hung parliament in italy the kaiser report is turning his attention to the fixing of interest rates we want to play a quick look at what's to come later this hour in this case there were thousands of e-mails between thousands of traders or actually a few dozen traders saying set the libel rate at a rate that is not true 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 of interest being committed somewhere in the universe should we apply a standard of guilt to this admission of guilt by

a just b.c. yet i just recently admitted that there are a lot of money in finance are generous and what somebody somewhere detonators or got something in a parallel universe perhaps so can we call it just to. give you say oh oh wow first three thousand mexicans headless body laundering good i just created is terrorist but should we care because after all somebody committed it is a back somewhere so you're not guilty. well back to our top story for more on the outcome or the lack thereof of the italian parliamentary elections i'm joined by a lot of eco a professor of economics and political activist sir thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us if we look at the candidates who are actually on this ballot we have a scandal plagued mr berlusconi we have a former comedian we have the left bloc coalition leader do you feel that these candidates what have even offered the country a chance to break through the deadlock on the problems with its economy and

political system. no i don't think so because they're ready to try the grand coalition the previous time with put in a a technocrat madea montiel on and he actually maybe probably even did a worse than this two asian was play increasing taxes in a counter that had already has the highest tax rates in the world so i don't see a solution coming from from this situation but even if there was a clear winner i don't think that there were the numbers to actually do their reforms that italy need. was no clear winner what are the prospects do you think of the parties coming together to form some sort of a coalition i mean if this coalition parliament just formed do you think there's a chance to actually address the core economic issues plaguing italy. yeah i think that they will make a coalition as you know the center left the barely won without even getting three percent of the votes but they will get fifty five percent of the seats in the lower

house and they'll be sure to in the upper house in the senate but they will have enough for with the law the comediennes party seats how i ever even with that miracle lieschen in the opera house i don't see the program the center left party proposes given the the reform solutions that italy needs and might have a business school go on for the time being for the short term but italy is in the critical need of evena reform that reassures the markets and i don't see it in the program that the center left gave or the agree law addressed so the problem is that they're addressing in some parts the corruptions and honesty but you know this high high. high should see. they're

not addressing the konami key issues the way the should be and what impact do you think this is going to have on the eurozone considering that italy is of course the third largest economy it's now in political limbo what kind of message does it send to the future here while there's a little known a lot more to past in the on the center segment which gives it's basically something. we pass in times of war and that is the not to serve the good bad. that are all there than one year will be. you know there's clear there's going to be clear worry of default or shall default and we'll have that's why it's something that might scare the markets because italy has two thousand billion. and it's six times bigger than what greece has and the international economy doesn't have the salvage founds to

take care of the problem this maggie. all right well thank you so much for that analysis of course unfortunately the markets are already spoke to. the a professor of economics and a political activist thank you for that interview. all right well how to end the bloody conflict in a syria that's claimed at least seventy thousand lives in the past two years this is exactly what russian america's top diplomats are going to be discussing in berlin this evening in their role as key mediators now the main challenge is to stop the violence via negotiations the syrian government has said that it is ready to talk but the rebels say that it is now too late instead they are demanding international action against the regime or russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov says the opposition is simply too 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 meanwhile the syrian rebels have released a new video in to show their advanced attack on the government forces take a look. oh no. oh no in this amateur footage that you're seeing there a rebel fighter apparently shoots down a syrian army helicopter with a missile the voices that you're hearing in the background a large bar translated to god is great as you can see right there in the video the aircraft seems to be falling down envelop in black smoke now the attack supposedly took place near the city of aleppo which has seen some heavy fighting as of late last week rebel officials said that they received a new batch of heavy weaponry from outside sponsors across the jordanian border.

well the taking sides taking of sides in the syrian conflict is one of the issues that's dividing russia and the u.s. as they discuss this crisis our own and he said now is taking a closer look at what's on the table for sergey lavrov and john kerry when they meet. 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 are said 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 of the edge of the 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 the 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. well john kerry may be the new secretary of state but another one of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief is about to face his latest battle coming up we're going to report on the where chuck hagel stands after being all but hung out to dry in

a bitter partisan standoff. also as germany doubles arms exports to the gulf states we look at the possible repercussions of berlin selling weapons to the repressive regimes that and much more after a short break. wealthy british sign on. the time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my next concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report on our.

welcome back i'm lucy catherine of germany's boosting its arms sales to gulf monarchies despite the grim human rights records of countries like saudi arabia bahrain and qatar now activists have been sounding the alarm over the trend accusing berlin of quote moral bankruptcy so let's take a detailed look now at these arms sales figures if we can pull that up on the

screen right there what we see last year germans total value of approved arms exports to gulf states stood at almost one and a half billion euros you can see that right there they soared from two thousand and eleven when exports stood at a little more than five hundred million euros now saudi arabia was the main recipient of the weapons with its share in two thousand and twelve being nine times bigger than the year before rainer braun from germany's peace movement says that it is not only immoral but also illegal. the. policies and it is also gave the law because the law said it is not a. lot of that in the conflicts we get and the reason is a zone full of conflicts not only between you and the neighbor country also there are a lot of internal politics and you know it is so important that it comes to the most

beautiful world it is totally unacceptable for us they believe that the quality of eugene will have to. germany was the result we need from the region so it is only a profit business and it is a profit business of the better i hope you will right and the people that are suffering because they are under pressure and because of the soil and by the fact of. well if there's a lesson to be learned on the downside of arming the dodgy regimes that events in north africa might help prove it a new u.n. report says countries like mali are suffering from uncontrolled gun traffic flowing from toppled regimes such as libya while also online a standoff on the high seas environmental activist who clash with two japanese whalers ships there's a stunning video right there imagine being stuck in the middle of that if you log on to our website r.t. dot com you can of course watch this footage in the fall as well as get many more stories for you right there.

of course a possible easing of sanctions is going to be the top agenda for world powers which are going to be meeting in kazakhstan to discuss the future of iran's nuclear program this is been a topic of debate for years now and of course we are hoping for some sort of a positive outcome here. it's unclear whether that will actually come to pass now the u.s. has signaled that it could relax some penalties of tehran halt twenty percent uranium enrichment to 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 tehran has recently upgraded its enrichment capability is maintaining that it is its aims are purely peaceful and allowed within international law will former washington advisor todd says western fears of

a nuclear tehran are not what's really behind the crippling sanctions and the whole anti iranian drive. the iranian civilization has been around for five thousand years certainly longer than most questions or any western civilizations and they're not suicidal. they know that were they to nuclear weapons they would be obliterated washington has pushed 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 and what and but they aren't any country is not a good thing but at the crash now behind pressure on iran and my opinion comes directly from israel else desire for regime change in iran and why the

united states government to make that happen well the economic penalties imposed on iran over its nuclear energy program the oil export ban has hit the country the hardest despite the fact that has undoubtedly damaged the economy overall it has also helped to strengthen other industries in iran as r.t. is morea for national reports. the international ban on iranian oil cost the country around forty billion dollars in two thousand and twelve according to the u.k. but despite this huge gap in iran's income officials have some good news in the tough sanctions normal experts have increased by least thirty percent from ego we call it really is so what they look like a bad thing when they actually play a positive role we've been asking our government the menu to decrease dependence on oil to at least fifty percent so it was too high up around eighty percent of making our economy too vulnerable now some say today is

a historic opportunity to finally get rid of this dangerous oil drilling in the u.s. and iran actually has a lot of internal to resources to feed from the well known copperheads to dates via minerals and stones between wanting this tree 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 frosts and terrible droughts have been damaging large parts of the harvest but this year with the country under tough economic sanctions discussions 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 benefited from price rise was that as you read in the stuff here's an explosive to more than a hundred countries worldwide but even in farmers cannot send in the broad confident business who remain great. thousands of industry workers also benefit which has them overcome the country's highest inflation the amount of production

and price of affect our salaries every year the add ten to twenty percent of my salary these even i have some bonus to my daily payments but producers seem to be more protected than exporters while international sanctions don't target the food industry current measures affect the 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 to the mean that's the main problem which is actually really good internationally if oil is a black gold the discussion is must be a green one at least for iran locals say these small knots have great health benefits especially for the men 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. time for world update now we begin with colombia colombian coffee growers and clashed with police during a rally to demand more government support for their industry is struggling and due to a drop in international prices and the workers want the states to help by increasing subsidies demonstrators blocked roads in a number of towns but security poor souls said such talk to us won't be tolerated. and a country that seems to not be able to catch much of a break one thousand people have died in egypt after a hot air balloon packed with tourists exploded in mid air before falling three hundred meters a faulty gas cylinder was apparently to blame for that blast now tourism officials say people from japan france and britain were among the dead the pilot managed to survive but is said to be in critical condition. a lofted has been

fired from gaza into israel causing some road damage but no injuries it's the first attack since november ceasefire in a scene as were television after a palestinian man died in israeli custody under disputed circumstances now last year saw a major conflict between the two rivals with the death toll of more than one hundred fifty palestinians on one side and five israelis on the other. britains unemployment benefits aim to provide a safety net for anyone between jobs looking for the next career opportunity only for some the pay outs are so attractive that getting out of bed to go to work doesn't seem to be worth it boyko explains. you really believe my luck to be on. a dream i thought. 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

a 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 on both. ford new cars. for 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 that 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 idleness and disease some of the

very qualities that critics say the system encourages beverage was factored well for 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 everywhere we've been on the disability allowance i told you he worked at docklands. do you think you can get me on is just ability allowance he's got a bone to see. under which cool. westminster now wants to make it clear that benefit on to career path and coming through the doors of your local job fence a year 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 money and no one's really checking whether or not you're genuinely looking for was. kaiser report coming up after a short break stay with us here watching our team. there's an old urban legend that says that the u.s. army stopped using circular targets for a rifle practice because the soldiers would be hesitant to shoot people on the battlefield the logic is that if you practice shooting something that looks like an enemy soldier you'll be desensitized to a killing real enemy soldiers so again the logic is to practice shooting at what you want to kill so you won't hesitate and speaking of not has a.