good morning. it has been night. with police using tear gas and water cannons on protesters who are trying to cross the bridge. of the city in.

protest. several thousand people apparently are have given trying to cross to bridge into stumble to get to chuck schumer square they actually have started moving immediately after hearing about the disperser of people from texas gray and get the cars that are being showered by tear gas and water cannons and it is really hard to see exactly how long the stern standoff between between the president and stumbles and police are going to last because obviously people are very determined to get to touch screens around eight o'clock in the evening when they're going on started speaking i had a rally and she said that purchasers hobbs to leave until she had only significantly after he left out police came out used water cannons first and then there were there was a really heavy onset of tear gas and. at the same time there were bulldozers

and workers in the cart who were clearing the area from the pension from the protesters that was still inside the park hundreds of thousands of them from national unions have already declared that they will go on general strike in opposition to it on challenged to express their protest and get the nation to display is done to start with protest stumbo this is yet another occasion on which prime minister has acted soon after he spoke about the determination to clear out all protests from gezi park he has made several statements in that regard throughout the two weeks there again referring to the protest movement alcohol mckinstry missing saying that foreign forces are behind this and this also comes on the same day when thousands of everyone's supporters have gathered in a garage suburb and many believe that this is a matter of fact of yet another indication of the prime minister creating

a rift in the thick of society this is the report that we have compiled earlier on the matter. classist turmoil blood to smoke and even death this has been turkey's reality for the past two weeks as protests show no sign of subsiding prime minister erdogan shows clear indication he won't budge neither on the prospects of gezi park demolition nor on other requests coming from taksim square his actions made the tension between the two parties. more serious than it was before and. he provoked his support is. spreading some disinformation about people drinking in mosques or people attacking have scored for men and like the people or killing policemen most of those information is very incorrect looters alcoholics extremists foreign agents all bound to wreak havoc in turkey and this is the reality of

protests according to our don and though some may believe him all others remain critical of the prime minister. i'm against the process but i think the broad has come from foreign forces from other countries which are not happy with the success and development of turkey i'm really angry with the government i think the one acts like a dictator who does what ever he wants he doesn't hear what other people think. i'm against the protesters and gears the park because things are getting out of control also the foreign press show it like a big event and this made the protest even bigger but the government wants to make peace with people. so far however these efforts appear to have resulted in more clashes in istanbul than in karate throughout the week with numerous reports of police brutality we spoke directly to officers to try to find out their side of the story. from day one we were for three days without sleep or food

when you can eat and afterwards we can think about is sleeping we slept on the pavement on the grass or on our shields maximum one hour a day i didn't get face to face with the protesters but i had no access to any information my phone battery died so i had no idea why the protests got so big the only things i heard were all those from our commanding officers. the pressure on police has been so great that according to their union six officers have committed suicide while nearly a thousand resigned because of the protests as the protests continue with all participants of the conflict growing increasingly tired and desperate and the government making no clear effort to ease the tensions some begin to wonder where prime minister prides himself on a building boom in turkey has actually destroyed the very bridges within society in the country in istanbul the. suffolk from the turkish

republican people's party believes what began as a protest against rebuilding a park exposed the plight of all the groups that feel oppressed by out of the. one's policies this is a social explosion it's a cultural clash this is interplast i mean it is the you is protecting the party but its job the government is very rough response on them as strong as something in this is slightly that is about secular women standing against you know journalists who has been exposed as being shut down there's no freedom of press in turkey about lawyers who have been just arrested hundreds of them. which was followed by the question at the site to be released we're very concerned not only about the heavy crackdown that may follow the prime minister's words but also that which. may follow everything else in the long run. we are very concerned for it.

thanks for joining us here on our. show a never ending civil confrontation in syria now at risk of reaching a new phase as the u.s. claims the red line itself for president bashar al assad has now been crossed and washington so this week it was now preparing to controversial rebel groups after finding evidence the syrian government resorted to the use of chemical weapons the claim however has been met with a wall of doubt my colleague much as i try to find out why a few ati's alexia chefs has been following this story. this week washington confirmed it has ample proof of assad's troops using chemical weapons against the opposition but the timing seems to be rather strange for that the incident in question allegedly happened in december last year but it's been brought up only now

when the government troops are winning battle after battle according to the russian foreign minister this makes no sense at all from the military point of view and the follow up statement by president obama that he wanted to see the balance of power is restored in the country and possibly even the syrian rebels is creating even more grounds for concerns in russia and europe as well so we have russia being skeptical about it the only voice or others were skeptical about the u.s. evidence not everyone is buying it the e.u. the main allies of the united states they are asking additional checks from the u.n. investigators russia says that the proof gathering process itself was done with violations of international regulations just like there are certain rules of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which suggest that samples of blood urine and clothes and soon can be classed as evidence only if these samples were collected by the organizations experts and if these experts controlled the

samples and rude to the born tories are u.s. colleagues failed to surance that these procedures were here to why do you think there's been a lot of resistance to accepting this evidence that the us says it has well just let's look at the history let's go back ten years ago to two thousand and three when the us state secretary colin powell was shaking a vial with allegedly anthrax in it suggesting that iraq has weapons of mass destruction chemical weapons we all know where this when so the u.s. clearly don't want to step on the same break again the u.s. national security council that made this announcement so it's intelligence reports the problem is that one time the bush administration also cited intelligence to prove to the entire world that saddam hussein had weapons of mass distro. as we all know this became the basis for granted against iraq and for iraq's occupation but no weapons were found there neither nuclear material nor chemical weapons so how

can we trust these empty phrases at the same time another rather concerning statements coming from the us that they are considering implementing a no fly zone over syria which in many cases is the first step for a military and has certainly a striking resemblance to iraq a scenario almost a decade ago and so as we've seen the rebels themselves are kind of a very diverse group a lot of interest in a lot of different groups as part of the so-called opposition that they have in the syria are there allegations against them as well i've heard words of regret coming from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov that all claims and allegations coming from the syrian government that the opposition used chemical weapons against them have never been investigated there have been scenes and footage of the opposition testing chemical weapons on rabbits more recently twelve people from al nusra front the syrian militarized opposition brigade were detained in turkey by the turkish police allegedly carrying vials of zareen gas on them and finally so we

have weapons talking about on both sides of weapons discussions but what about bringing people back to the table all this happens and the talks of a peace conference which was agreed upon in moscow by lavrov and kerry something is seen as a last resort to find a diplomatic solution to the outcome you can talk about arming one side of the conflict and at the same time stick to the all rhetoric about conducting a peace conference which may be seen as a last resort. and even without a no fly zone washington if you can still a boost the rebels efforts with that of patriot defense batteries and f. sixteen fighter jets that have already been deployed to the syrian border in jordan and former pentagon official michael maloof the fear is that propping up the anti assad fighters may well turn out badly. we have to be very skeptical i was in the pentagon at the time that intelligence assessments were made regarding iraq and its w m d programs weapons of mass destruction and we know what the results

were trillion dollars later forty five hundred lives and we. had nothing nothing to show for it and there were and there was no w m d i was in damascus recently spoke for an hour and a half with the syrian prime minister and he says why would we be gassing our own people the timing this is meant to try to boost morale but the problem is how do you the opposition is so fractured how do you determine who will get the arms and so that it doesn't get into the hands of the foreign fighters the al destroy the al qaida types there's no guarantee about this and that's why i believe it's going to prolong a conflict. that syria continues to implode it's pushing iraq off balance as a recent spike in violence called the deadly chaos across the country increasingly jeopardizing hopes for peace in a region at war with itself. public and go boils in greece after the

state broadcaster was ceremoniously shot it this week and that's despite an offer from the prime minister to restart the channels that's coming up in just a few minutes here on out. as it just gets to a quarter past the hour here in moscow hong kong's witnessing a marathon of anti surveillance rallies in support of edward snowden he's holed up there after exposing washington's unpowered old spy web the outrage over the mass new pings being mirrored across the planet as marina portnoy reports the surveillance is costing america its international stage. last weekend the u.s. president and his chinese counterpart met for a private bilateral summit focused on cyber attacks and virtual espionage washington blaming beijing for being an online outlaw today the tables have turned courtesy of n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden as the n.s.a.

leaker told that the south china morning post of the us has been hacking chinese and hong kong computers since since zero nine snowden alleges that the u.s. national security agency's targets included the chinese university of hong kong public officials and students allegations that give way to claims by officials in beijing that the country has been the victim of u.s. hacking efforts america has turned into the world cop they think that they can basically set the standards for everybody else to follow their own paranoia global paranoia and outreach has been rising ever since one of america's best kept secrets known as prism was revealed the n.s.a.'s clandestine electronic surveillance program records digital communications and allows for real time online surveillance of citizens both foreign and domestic prism gives u.s. intelligence agencies direct access to files stored on the servers of nine major internet companies including google and facebook to identify and target potential

terror suspects officials in italy britain and germany the most spied upon country said the program was both alarming and encroached on privacy politically to some extent i think it's the united states government but rather because despite all the claims from the white house from a congress the reality of that astley excessive valence has been documented by the material of the authentic material from the n.s.a. it was snowden has released revelations about prism has prompted the. civil liberties union to file for lawsuits against the obama administration more than one hundred and fifty thousand american citizens have signed an online petition calling for an end to washington's massive spying apparatus a clandestine program which the president who promised an unprecedented amount of transparency ironically defends you can't have one hundred percent security.

and also then have one hundred percent privacy and zero inconvenience. you know that we're going to have to make some choices as a society the obama administration finds itself losing not only the war on leaks but enormous credibility at home and abroad with the oversell a school of watching everyone in the name of national security one may wonder if the u.s. government has become its own worst enemy reporting from new york marina portnoy r.t. . now one of the people reportedly in touch with edward snowden is one of the founders of wiki leaks of course yesterday in a such a speaking to us here at r.t. he said that america's witch hunt against whistle blowers has scared away many potential sources. many sources are quite scared i mean we've seen. colleagues of

mine have even stated publicly that their sources are reluctant to talk because of the crackdown against bradley manning and that's what that whole trial is trying to achieve it's trying to set the precedent the communicating with the media is the same as communicating with your enemy and that's a death penalty offense. an outrageous president to crack down on whistleblowers has been very public and i think that too scared people would be it i mean there's ways to do it without ending up like the way bradley manning is going to go or smoke i mean most sources reveal information perfectly fine. that where there were thousands and yet we only know. of two of the had problems and it's alleged this is because they talked to informants and while the u.s. spy net spans the entirety of the world surveillance against certain nations was

given a priority among them strangely enough is that of germany a fact that is lending strength to arguments the spying amounts to industrial espionage. correspondent peter all of he has this report. among the information that was revealed by whistleblower edward snowden is a map that shows where around the world the united states was listening in to people's telephone conversations now this maps generated so that countries with minimum wire taps taking place in the color green and those where the most why it's happening was taking place are in red now this has thrown up a few surprises one of those is that right here in germany a lot appears in a looted orange on the map suggesting that it was the subject of quite significant why it's happening it's been suggested that although these claims are made that they're trying to stop terrorism that these could be used for economic purposes to try and find out just what's going on inside of europe's only real economic success

story at the moment well of course this caused some outrage here in europe and it's certainly going to raise some serious questions when president barack obama arrives here in berlin next week for talks with angle of merkel another man here in germany who's in charge of protecting german citizens identity and personal data is called the u.s. actions unacceptable saying that the level of protection that was in place to look after u.s. citizens well was really far greater than those to look after a u.s. citizens and well aren't we all allies after all the social democratic party here in germany who are the main opposition party have said that they want to hear from the german secret service to find out exactly just how much and when they knew that german citizens were being listened to during their phone conversations. now the u.s. isn't the only nation that's got a beef with those speaking out coming up here on r t we report on how washington's gulf allies are cracking down on online dissent the simple twitter posts netting

some more than a decade behind bars. and the first female in space valentina tereshkova she celebrates fifty years since her maiden voyage. which ultimately trailed the way to the stars for women. let's shift gears and turn our attention now to out of tehran where in iran program for her son there's been officially named the successor to mahmoud ahmadinejad's after winning the presidential election that was there with more than fifty percent of the vote some western politicians have already expressed hope that the country will become more flexible under the new moderate leader. reports on what the world could expect to come from tehran. people have taken to the streets of tehran to celebrate the victory all of us on the hot.

that's hot his victory has provoked mixed feelings the man who ran into this is known as a reformist and so carries the many specially in terms of greater freedoms boiron still runs diplomatic isolation the country has been on the top sanctions for years now over a spencer version of the nuclear program during his campaign rouhani has promised to prepare the civil rights structure re strong economy and improve your relations with the west his criticize us many times for making remarks that cost the country a pretty ability but at the same time assertively value here and there on realize that the iranian system works with major power held by the supreme leader of the president can do little to change things dramatically. the supreme leader has the final say on big issues like terrence disputed brother mole syria for example

so those say that the next president can at least takes the time overruns dealings with the outside world moment chief nuclear negotiator. for his consulting approach big. problems. but he'll have plenty to deal with left over from his predecessor here's my report on. the legacy part leaves a baseline of. like there has been in the real estate business for years in iran when we ask him to summarize the legacy of president and. he talks about pizza if you compare is it right speed increased by a hundred percent since last year we have no hope for the future of the economy is better than it's getting worse. one of the president's promises after taking office in two thousand and five was to make iran's vast oil revenues felt at the dining table of every single family was he leaves behind is

a country hit by the worst financial crisis illyria's but there are some who say it's not what it is god who's to blame for the downturn a hundred sanctions were tough recently and it's hard to keep afloat but the president of the people i'm sure that iran is able to resist international pressure the iranian economy has been hit hard by a string of ever tougher sanctions imposed successively by the e.u. the u.n. and the u.s. over accuse ations the countries trying to develop nuclear weapon something which was never approved as autonomic energy that has been able to stand up to the whole world over iran's nuclear program and the country is better off for it and other battle the departure in libya will be remembered for is his rhetoric about israel and iran six resident relations reached the point when even war seemed very possible and while ahmadinejad has not exactly been friendly towards israel the way facts have been juggled about him has done more damage to his reputation than his

own words years ago a statement was mistakenly streamlet it to him which was in the curtly translated as israel must be wiped off the face of the map and actual words were that israel must vanish from the arena of time and didn't even belong to one ishant any way other than the objective is to make up with the new judge a villain he stands for universal rights where every country would have an equal say but some powers want nothing but dominance and they focused on blocking the name of our president one of this year's presidential candidates doesn't agree say korea during the two thousand and nine elections campaign he criticized his advisors and they were after a race that's not the best and most honest way to get the power. the deadly protests that raged across the country after the. actions are also thought to have undermined our image the result many people were frightened of other let me not talk about i mentioned at all. even those who don't totally subpool to when i say

there is little he can actually do here according to our constitution the supreme leader has much more powers in this country almost every step the president takes should be supervised and blessed by the ayatollah so despite all the controversies surrounding president. it looks like iran will continue to be a force in the region and therefore will remain the foolish side of the us and its allies mahmoud ahmadinejad's eighty year presidency provokes mixed feelings a very controversial leader he was equally paid to worship in iran has been lazy the president sent him home to find the iranian policy today if iraq is hopeless but his legacy will cost a shadow over the next president some time. race nationality technorati iran. and to greece where left leftist coalition parties have rejected an offer from the prime minister to restart a limited number of news programmes on the national public broadcaster its t.v.

and radio channels were shut down in a snap cost cutting decision earlier this week forcing more than two and a half thousand public sector workers out of a job about two minor parties in the ruling coalition a calling for the channels to go back on air and me gently but except the broadcaster needs to be reformed to cut wastage it comes after a week that saw public anger boil over onto the streets of the decision to pull the plug on the move critics have labeled as an attack on democracy the government says it's money saving obligations under the terms of a financial agreement with the e.u. and the i.m.f. left it with no other choice but to close the broadcaster george cut from dallas a professor of constitutional law says the move has sweeping ramify. nations for the greek society. the majority of the good. of good in the nation as a blow to democracy and of course to the independent source of

news for our society in my opinion it's a clear act of very very soon the government is facing a failure of its economic policy. by this attempt to do to distract the political appearance on towards another goal as you know we are living now in our very dire economic situation so it's good government for its inability to control the situation. to act like about you know decisions that even its allies that we have to other parts of the political coalition are disapproving . we're coming to you live from moscow on this sunday i will receive a show here on r.t. more with the violence ripping iraq into pieces that's the crackdown on freedoms on the arabian peninsula i hope you can stay with us just about here on.

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the first impulse that is the craft to cut them with so saw that was it was a big day to act like a dictator just out there on the has been elected and he's acting in the wrong way but but but don't come with the basswoods with syria it doesn't fly. on. morning news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are today.

thank you for joining us here on our t.-r. over sushi in moscow to iraq we go suicide blasts roadside bombs ripping across in another wave of deadly violence this week pitting sunni muslims against shias and raising the specter of an all out into religious war. reports of the sectarian tension that's killed more than two thousand people since april. may was the bloodiest month seen in iraq in the past five years a surge in sectarian violence that's raised fears of another civil war sunni versus shia one country two sects. iraq has been through this before and that divide never really sealed tensions are growing between the shiite led government and minority sunnis inflamed by the raging conflict in neighboring syria to understand the divisions we have to travel to an area off limits to foreign journalists the end our province following the u.s.

led invasion this area was the heartland of the sunni insurgency today it's become the focal point of the anti-government protests oh for several months now every friday this scene prayer on the highway to baghdad followed by protests against the baghdad government it's a situation that's reflective of the state of iraq today a country that has been torn apart by war but doesn't seem to be and the closer to healing the wounds in the divisions that have been on the least during that occupation here the sunni protesters who have gathered behind me want a different kind of system they want to change they feel that the government doesn't represent them. is one of those protesters he's brought his son to almost every demonstration there for a residence but not by choice he says he was forced to flee baghdad for fear of arrest by the military and that his sect made him a target. one day a military brigade surrounded the area where we lived in baghdad and started making

arrests they were targeting sunday residents and arrested two of my cousins so i gathered my family and escaped to flu jab. the demonstrators complain of discrimination arbitrary arrests detention even torture under the rule of prime minister nouri al maliki charges that the government denies. that the government systematically driving sunnis from baghdad this isn't a secret migration is being done in the open cities are restricted in everything from where we live to the kinds of jobs we can have but in a shia neighborhood a different version of the story fearful of retribution for speaking out this resident prefers to hide his identity he tells us of the dangers iraqi shia face from armed groups. we also have been displaced by threats from al qaeda and other militias this used to be a mixed area but people have started exchanging houses between sunni and shia families for safety some analysts blame the united states for the divisions they

build the new system political system in iraq on the sectarian basis like they made the proportions for the seventies for this. and for the. this is very little. those divisions have taken a toll on iraqi youth a generation separated by the threat of violence. it really affects acing causes a lot of problems between me and my friends especially if they're from a different six we can't work together we'll hang out publicly in some neighborhoods i could get killed for being seen with someone from a different religious group ten years after the war iraq is still struggling to find peace as the ghosts of its sectarian past haunt the future lucy caffein of baghdad. and canadian scientists are counting against literally they think sophisticated math models will help. create special.

details on the website. also a click away when a person looks like a better choice than the. cost details. unprecedented crackdown on is unfolding in the arabian peninsula. desperate to stamp out naysayers online as one example a woman in kuwait this week was given eleven year jail sentence for making a post that was critical of the emir. reports now on just how draconian some of the rules are. qatar the united arab emirates kuwait rain and saudi arabia now in saudi arabia local media reports that the authorities asked the mobile providers to find ways to monitor encrypted messaging and apps like viber skype and whatsapp and said that if these applications could not be monitored then they would have to be

blocked while last month senior saudi religious clerics to cleared those who use twitter are risking quote demonstration and lose both this world and their afterlife let's move on to qatar now seen by many as a regional media hub which openly supports radical freedom fighters in syria well it's now looking at punishing websites and social media with a new internet coach under the new draft the of gaudi's will be allowed to remove news videos or posts even factual ones if they think the violate the sanctity of privacy now this brings us to the united arab emirates a country ruled by seven the hereditary rulers were political parties are banned by law and their citizens can be jailed for tweeting like the recent case of a man who received ten months behind bars for describing the legal process around a group of civil society activists quote in bad faith now in kuwait this year alone at least six journalists and dozens of activists have been arrested on charges that include insulting the mirror on twitter other widespread charges for criticism

online from users are threatening national security and offending religion all on the web but the jail sentences are anything but virtual and sometimes stretch to two years behind bars despite being party to the international court and on civil and political rights now finally last but not least reign six bloggers were given one year in prison each after they were found guilty of misusing the right of free expression and insulting the king even though apparently their angry tweets were merely criticism of the authorities. and to pakistan now for the r.t. world update where at least fourteen people have been killed by a bomb planted on a bus at a woman's university in the city of another blast later reported at the hospital where the injured were being treated as follows it was an excuse me was followed by a fierce gunfight where at least four security officers and four silence were

killed. and four men including a police officer a mosque in the u.k. city of birmingham the officer was attacked as he was responding to an emergency call victim is now in hospital conditions said to be stable thirty two year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder attacks against muslims in britain have stalled since the killing of a soldier in london last month and the brutal machete murder carried out by two islamic and spider streams. for now though she's been inspiring women all over the world to follow their dreams for half a century now the first woman in space telescope now celebrating fifty years since a groundbreaking flight from boston has a story one small step for a woman. two years after yuri gagarin valentino to go over chased his rocket vipers up to wall base in one nine hundred sixty three to become the first woman in space . for the grinding was the same for men and women space doesn't make allowances and

then. even today valentino is a folk hero only slightly less famous thing guarin in russia and space valentino telescope saying q thank you so much for being an impulse inspiration to me and many other women and girls around the world to reach our dreams congratulations but back then she started off as one of many selected from among hundreds of applicants one of five other finalists could have gone the place. of course i wanted to go into space all of us did now we're celebrating to school wasn't a verse three but of the time we were naturally very upset that it didn't choose us if you know it was a time of cold war the soviet leader nikita khrushchev desperate to keep the momentum going after the dollar and was first across one of the great hurdles of the space race as such the project was kept top secret valentino didn't even tell

her mother she was doing a break i told her i was in a parachute jumping team and she believed me of course when her friends congratulated her she didn't believe them either saying she's not mean let's face it she's a parachutist so it would be two decades that for the next female cosmonaut went into space and after fifty years only three russian female cosmonauts have ever been awarded by since that on them and yes there are lots of women austerlitz another country and it's hard to explain why the situation in russia is different than the this is largely due to russian attitudes to women in a space i would call this uncivilized perhaps they don't trust women enough but in tina became a perfect publicist he told for the save the union she was banned from flying ever again off the guardian's death due just too valuable a pub. face to lose along this hall of fame a statues of men central to soviet space exploration but valentino tedesco over is the only woman you'll find here call sign was c. go in for the u.s.s.r.

and for all the women who dreamt of doing the same this see go through higher than any other. moscow. now russia's president vladimir putin he visited our new headquarters here in moscow he did so on tuesday he stay for a chat with some of our correspondents that's coming your way in just a. few. dangerous

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angles kid stories. are you here to. teach spanish to find out more visit actuality. dot com. one issue that at least our views are generally excited about today is the snowden case a man who is now being dubbed a second the sound has exposed total surveillance practices employed by the american government there are two sides to the story on the one hand that was classified information which makes this man a traitor but on the other hand the information has leaked is of crucial importance primarily for the american public and for the world in general what do you think of that. i think everybody has long been aware that signals intelligence is

about surveillance of individuals and organizations is becoming a global phenomenon in the context of combat. acting international terrorism and such methods are generally practicable but the question is how well those security agencies are controlled by the public i can tell you that at least in russia you can't just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court that's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism with modern day technology. but a man until his deputy editor in chief with. some law you have the mind is going to . look i mean to ask you about drones but on the as you know american police drones to deliver air strikes almost and i do you think this happens especially often in pakistan and if you other countries in one hand drawings are efficient in combat but on the other hand will all aware of the collateral damage the public in many countries and i found this shocking and there has already been

a motion for imposing an international ban on news and room as opposed to what i would like to ask you about russia's attitude on the issue of modern means of warfare keep evolving and they always will i doubt if it's possible to simply ban its all but you certainly can and should introduce certain rules and exercise control i know they're currently debating this issue in the united states and a notion is being advocated increasingly often within the u.n. framework that you need to put drones under control you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to prevent or minimize collateral casualties it's extremely important but i don't know whether a western counterparts will choose this option but i would suggest it would be in their best interest however there are other threats to for example they are presently debating the option of using non nuclear ballistic missiles in the united states can you imagine how potentially dangerous that is what if such a missile were to launch from somewhere in the middle of an ocean and get spotted

by a nuclear power early warning system how should that nuclear power react to a missile coming its way how are they supposed to know whether this missile comes with a nuclear warhead or not or if the missile impacts right next to its border or inside its territory do you realize how perilous that can be. or take the notion of low yield nuclear weapons do you realize how badly that can blur the very barren drees of using nuclear bombs or how low the threshold might sink for authorizing such a strike can you imagine the possible implications of something like where are the limits for lowering that threshold and who setting them there are many threats in the world of today and there is only one way trip dress them efficiently that is working together within the boundaries of international law. and now would like to give the floor to peace i'm about what is going to present so one of the most popular says crosstalk it seems like we live in the age of opposition. and we have

the arab spring and heard about europe and the crisis there. and the occupy movement united states which our team did an excellent job in covering but what about the opposition in russia public opinion polls show it's very small not much support what kind of opposition would you like to challenge you at a certain point we saw the police cracking down on the occupy wall street activists i won't call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate my point is that every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within law if they don't like the law they should use democratic means to change those laws they should persuade voters to join them and they should get elected into legislature is so that they can have a chance to change the law if there are people who act outside the law then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of the majority that's the way it's done in the us and that's the way it's done in russia.