chuck hagel narrowly wins u.s. senate approval to become the new defense secretary but his policies draw fire from capitol hill especially among his own a fellow republican. italy upsets the austerity apple cart as voters say no two more cots but leave parliament in turmoil raising fears that the country's political crisis will negatively impact the eurozone. and how's this for a minor traffic offense the shocking video posted by a russian company of their eight year old daughter driving as dangerous as. you're watching our live from moscow i mean you see no way with our top story chuck

hagel has been narrowly approved by the u.s. senate as the new defense secretary he came under fire from fellow republicans for his past criticism of the iraq war and the israeli lobby with some believing he could also be too soft on iran and it's to can now on the clash on capitol hill. chuck hagel was confirmed by the senate fifty eight votes for forty one vote against a narrow vote as you can see if he can find a movie ball that apologizing and repenting behind and he had to do a lot of that to get the job has been working very hard to tailor his views so as to please congress as a senator chuck hagel allowed himself to oppose the surge in iraq or to criticize israel's policies to oppose seeing war with iran is an option but as the president's nominee for the defense secretary position he backtracked on much of what he had said before and did it as as even his supporters noted in a rather clumsy way but in a way that showed how much he wanted the job and the whole confirmation process

including the attack campaign against him including the filibuster ten days ago showed how intolerant the u.s. congress is of alternative thought on one policy ten days ago the senators knew quite well that chuck hagel would eventually be confirmed but they chose to block the vote as many say just to make a point president obama certainly knew that chuck hagel confirmation process would not go as smoothly as say john kerry's but he nominated him anyway it looks like president obama too wanted to make a point this is his last term he doesn't have to think about getting reelected and it is a good time for him to make a point by the end of his first term the degree of war mongering in washington has escalated and we should the point where even the president said there's too much war talking going on now mandating chuck hagel could use where you are bringing it down a notch the president is also quite aware of the general war fatigue in the country but the u.s. congress doesn't seem to have that same war fatigue this chuck hagel confirmation

hearing showed quite to the contrary never too tired for war it seems one more thing it's saying important to point out here chuck hagel as defense secretary will not be in a position to generate policy is there to fulfill the president's policies probably his main job will be managing the budget the biggest military budget in the world and figuring out where to make cuts but most of the questions senators asked during his confirmation hearing were about policies which is really not going to be in his field of work anyway. well yet another new face in american politics make a difference in syria u.s. secretary of state john kerry has signaled washington's readiness to support the syrian rebels ahead of thursday's so-called friends of syria meeting in rome live now to brussels and political analyst alex corbell drives joins us live i should say john kerry is vowing to not leave syrian rebels so to say dane going in the wind as he put it pledging more support how far do you think it will go how much

support. well quite fluently i mean everyone wants to stop the killing in syria it's clear the question is is the rebels the right way to achieve this goal and clearly i think that it's not and for three reasons the first reason is a. position to the syrian regime is really divided you have the n.c.c. you have the. if and see. if they say so one of them wants to share power with the regime and the other one doesn't want the solution the third one the second one you have the misting brotherhood would like to turkey to intervene you would let us be syrian because we don't vote we mr carville if i might interrupt you just because mostly to asia is so complicated and we have a bit of a delay i want to just focus on john kerry and his pledge of more support what does

that mean what is the support. basically the goal is to. give. training to. to some of the syrian rebels but so far there is no real details how does that sit with kerry's mission to push for syrian dialogue or any kind of push internationally for some kind of talks between the sides. well. when it comes to dialogue i think i think we are not really a stage i mean we have passed the stage and it's a pity we should we should go back to the stage of training to. preserve and strengthen the syrian opposition instead of trying to meddle in so bloody

conflict. ok alex korbel joining us live from brussels thank you for that. well there's been no sign of progress following nuclear talks between iran and six world powers tehran faces possibly even more saying actions over allegations its building nuclear weapons something it denies and it's the right people suffering most from those measures but the lack of medicine and food the details from archies. an effort to stop tehran's nuclear program western countries have used an arsenal of crippling economic sanctions over the years in the interim america and its allies may have started a widespread medical crisis for the iranian people hundreds of thousands of iranians with serious illnesses such as cancer diabetes and all three of us can't reportedly receive lifesaving medicines because of international sanctions due to

banking restrictions imposed by u.s. and european governments companies and hospitals in iran say they are on able to purchase pharmaceuticals from abroad now according to reports an estimated twenty three thousand iranians with hiv or aids have had their life saving medication restricted and medicine shortages for splits since specific blood disorders have allegedly resulted in many deaths already i spoke with an iranian american who recently visited iran bringing his grandmother meds for her diabetes and all through this alex shams told me that the stock of pain relievers he packed was for a hospital the people who are the most vulnerable the people with the most special kind of cancer or. illnesses they're the ones who right now are feeling the pinch the hospital that i brought medicine back there was a cancer hospital and they're right now it's a beating that they won't have tylenol in a short in a very short period of time that they're asking people to tylenol and bring it back

. unfortunately that's how they're doing with tylenol i can't even begin to imagine what how their stockpiles of cancer medicine are looking right now the latest round of u.s. and european sanctions have caused iran's currency to plummet and oil revenue to slash which in turn has pushed up inflation critics say western countries have unleashed catastrophic economic warfare against ordinary iranian citizens so far producing all harm and no good they have weapons of mass destruction. very very blunt instrument of use against nations sanctions the way that they're being propagated by the usa by the euro and indeed to a certain degree by the un against iran really very hopeful they don't achieve their objectives that penalizing the old you know person and i think it is totally

unethical and immoral that we have to be very very care about what happens which is why i think a retooling and readjustment of the sanctions in this medical area is is critical within a very short time because as this begins to spiral so too then does the black or the cheering many experts warn that if the u.s. continues leaving a path of sanction destruction against iran the circumstance can manifest into a repeat of iraq in the ninety's arena port ny r.t. new york. italy is looking for a way out of its election limbo after a hung parliament put europe on tender hooks and raise fears of fresh financial turmoil no parties want a parliamentary majority and the results showed italian voters strongly reject the austerity policies of mario monti's government no doubt investment advisor patrick young has some thoughts on this let's now cross five to him patrick what happens to the euro's out if the parties can't find

a way out of the deadlock and uncertainty remains of course if there is another election oh absolutely well look the your real crisis is the elephant in the room that nobody was talking about so far this year is back on its back big time because ultimately fifty seven percent of the tell you just don't like the idea of a sturdy and they don't really want to do the sorts of things that the european union will supposed upon them that's causing us a huge problem because ultimately you've got incredible new parties like betty greeley all certified storm movement you've got an incredible we have to support that came back from mr. berlusconi a former prime minister and so billy missions and of course not i please in the worst possible political limbo there is no clear ike right winger there's no clear government it's going to take weeks on end and ultimately markets despise the idea of uncertainty and what they're looking out at the moment is an awful uncertainty because they simply don't know whether it really is going to be a reliable member of the euro zone and if it really is not going to be able to

reliable member of the euro zone then there probably is not going to be a euro zone but italy has no only operated and safety coalition since the end of world war two really why should another one be any more problematic well i think the difficulty right now and you're absolutely correct there have been multiple coalitions in italian history since the end of the second world war but as of this moment actually the divisions between the politicians are huge and you've got essentially mr berlusconi mr green you know they are absolutely cannot abide by each of each other i mean grillo himself is ultimately the berlusconi counted it and the same time you've got both sonny who's the man who just edge to victory in the lower house of parliament by three or four tenths of a percentage point from mr berlusconi who's got avenged of league a soft left in italian terms reasonably hard left compared to the united states of america munday it as it were but a very shaky want to move forward and ultimately also was part of this you go finally the mr monti the technocrat to the first time he went to the polls was well

offense and chile a huge failure with barely nine percent of the vote these people are not the sort of people who are going to manage to get together instantaneously and get under great deal of their differences are vast and that's what the markets italians have certainly made their voice clear it would seem that they don't want austerity will the rest of europe listen. well i think this is an incredible problem because ultimately the dots of veto can't be paid for under the current economics of the italian system and of course we've had a number of politicians who spent the whole of the last fifty or sixty years in frankly all of western europe telling people the government would ultimately be the uncertain all of their problems that era is over we're looking at an era of smaller government smaller debt and actually a great deal more powerful isn't relevant the government activity it really is running into an incredible brick wall and the european union with that hope the

european union going to react well ultimately i think it's difficult to see how german pensioners who are already seeing their libraries being closed on in order to subsidize places like greece those people the germans who work incredibly hard the dutch i think they're very reluctant to want to go further and subsidize as i said the dog. how big is the danger that italy will follow increases footsteps into such severe debt. well technically we have to bear in mind the fact that actually day to day the italian government is not actually in the dire straits of the greek government i mean the good thing about deadliest they pretty much cover their bit bulls on a day to day basis the problem is that this dear old old civita factor dating back fifty sixty years of hugely coalitions that essentially didn't want to bite the bullet has led to the italian start of a huge debt mines and so already there at one hundred ten one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p.

to get out of perspective that's not anywhere near one hundred fifty two hundred sixty percent that you've got in somewhere like greece up least but on the other hand if you compare it even to say the united states of america which is being rather profit for quite some time they're very enriching one hundred percent of g.d.p. in other words one year of economic output a grip many nations one would argue should be underwriting sixty percent so it is problem therefore is that they need to keep selling this debt. and what we've already seen in international money markets is that as soon as the italians came out this week and said we'd like to sell a few more belonged to in order to pay a few more pensions and cover a few more hospitals etc the money markets turned around and they went well it's going to cost you because we don't trust your government that's where the problem lies it's not a short fuse like greece which is essential to our bankrupt nation it's a longer view is if the italians cannot keep sustaining the debt they already have then they have fundamental problems unfortunately with our coalition that's

essentially a coalition from hayle looking at the negotiations that are not being put together by the president it's going to be very difficult for italy to sustain itself in the euro zone but there is some time all is not yet laws but we will certainly be watching as will you investment adviser patrick young thanks for your analysis. thirty policies appear to be all of little help to the u.k.'s alyea economy either as belt tightening brits see their income being cut from every direction is the average earners taking the pain as living costs outstrip workers' wages as we report shortly. and road age yes this eight year old girl really is driving at one hundred kilometers an hour in a video that's gone viral and it's got russian police wary the details after a break.

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my. welcome back you're watching archie live from moscow reaching sixteen in russia is a big moment for most youngsters that's when they can start on the road to getting their driver's license at the age of eighteen some get a significant head start behind the wheel take a look at this. go to at least one hundred your mother is filming you. and a hero driving a car my friend i stand would have fainted if she saw this. posted on social networks yes you heard correctly and eight year old girl going to top speed in an audi one hundred kilometers an hour her parents egging her on to go even

faster they were quite proud and actually posted this video on you tube and other social networks thousands of hits to say the least but also a lot of criticism coming in the parents then took down these posts and in fact police have launched an investigation this is just one of several videos available for you on our web site let's take a look at another one that certainly highlights driving in russia to say the least a bus driver with this cab on his dashboard takes into his own hand punishment he rams into anyone who cuts him off obviously drivers like this not very happy about it he's been in a hundred or so minor road accidents but he's never been considered at fault by the police they tend to be on his side he says it's a misconception in fact that a person who really runs another car is automatically at fault he adds that he could cause more serious accidents that it might be is felt like swerving into

another lane or into oncoming traffic. the squeezed middle classes are bearing the brunt of the country's struggles to revive the economy a study shows tax hikes are leaving them two hundred eighty pounds a year worse off and more than half of them have no savings to fall back on it means a major lifestyle changes for many as sarah first explains for a large part of her life liz hoggard has been tapping away at building a life for herself as a freelance journalist she's been part of britain's middle class clearing credit cards pay their mortgages on time and they thrived during being but then came the bust and with the decline of opportunities that were for so long a middle class perk i didn't get a contract we knew because budgets were being cut and so all those little things you have in place you always live slightly on credit you know you go into interest

in anticipation get paid quite soon that got much tougher as low incomes coupled with high living costs stoking fears of a shrinking little in britain is backed up in a report by the resolution foundation think tank it looked into what the future holds the ten million adults in the low to middle income households forecast another decade of hardship well unfortunately it's a bit of a grim prospect prices have risen faster than earnings for quite some time now and what that means is that people earning. a similar amount perhaps a little more but they can't buy as much with it a stark example of this is housing a couple of decades ago you've had to save for a couple of years maybe three or four years to get a deposit on a house if you're a low to middle income first time buyer at the moment you're looking at about twenty two years so middle class trimmings like foreign holidays meals out and home

improvements are on hold for the time being as lives has found out she. having to sell off possessions to pay for essential is like dental treatment is it you picking up these books even quotes that it's going to take so long it's quite emotional at times and you have a rush of memory and then you think i haven't read them for ten years and probably if there's something really important i can find online now that has revolutionized it but i also think. these books are my investment in a way it's really inching exhibition catalogues that i bought back if not very much money just just a normal price and then of course they become rare as the years go by so in some ways my stocks and shares been sitting on my shelves which i hadn't known about you see when you look online and i miss and think oh my goodness that was confronted so there is a sense of well at least i can pay for my newspaper my root canal surgery doing that. you know you have to not be a snob in something you cannot make times that can be hard to keep up with parents

is why schemes like the one run by this store here in is that it's a proving so popular you bring along a designer clothes need to fix things at the credit which can be reused in the store. but it was a bit further structurally i think where the first person. to actually combine the trust exchange element with the charity. and introducing the exchange voucher system rather than buying stock in. that's the kind of give and take on them as more and more families look for ways to make their money go further the government's being warned that without shed growth britain risks becoming a country of two hogs the rich getting richer and the middle classes increasingly losing out meanwhile isn't a generation like a facing up to the reality that the britons middle class is the next chapter is

looking pretty bleak south. london. on t.v. and online are two stories covered the world there we've details of america's web weapon it's a computer virus called math aimed at disrupting iran's nuclear research which has been waiting in the wings long before tehran was accused of anything find out more dot com. was peeping through the iron curtain as tourists north korea got to tag their pictures and send tweets from the reclusive country get a glimpse on our web site. news today violence is once again flared up. in these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are on the day.

download. cation so choose your life stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television in the car it just doesn't go well with your mobile device so you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. more world news for you now from our t.v. first deadly violence in afghanistan where taliban insurgents have struck at a police checkpoint in the eastern province of gaza knee i should say it's an area that's seen heightened military activity eleven officers were shot dead while they slept six others were also killed hours later

a taliban suicide bomber detonated his device after getting underneath a bus carrying army personnel in kabul ten people were injured in. a fire out in a legal market in india has claimed at least eighteen lives i should say and left dozens others wounded happened in the city of kata which used to be called calcutta most of the victims were porters working in the six story building from where chemicals and plastics were sold toxic gases hampered rescue efforts by hundreds of firefighters who attended the early morning blaze an electrical fault is thought to be to blame. a shooting rampage at a factory in switzerland has reportedly left three people dead including the killer several others were wounded when the attacker struck during breakfast in a canteen at a wood processing plant near lucerne the suitor's identity and motives are not yet

known although gun ownership is high in switzerland shooting crimes are very low. this. is a packed out st peter's square where tens of thousands gathered to watch pope benedict address his final general audience a larger than expected crowd were there to be the last ones to be blessed by this pontiff whose papa see ends on friday since announcing the first powerful resignation for six centuries there's been speculation over why although the pope's reason is his own elling house successor will be chosen next month. we now take you to russia's called the peninsula lie in a few minutes to get a front row seat to see nature is also sky high light show.

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