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israel's prime minister heads to moscow to convince russia that iran should not be trusted. to make yet another push to reach a nuclear agreement with. a new round of talks with the you've won a. deal could be quite. have more. major repairs for a series of unprecedented. war games in crisis hit europe keeping troops busy after they pull out of afghanistan. i don't see how japan's math is reportedly making money from the cleanup of the fukushima nuclear station by providing an exploited workers to do the do it.
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from moscow with headlines from the news team here welcome to the program today israel's prime minister is heading to moscow on a mission to prevent any progress during iran's nuclear negotiations with world powers a new round of three day talks with tehran begins in geneva today and many obstacles remain before hopes of a breakthrough become reality let's get more on this now from. joining us live here on the program good to see you who's got a busy day today. did netanyahu will arrive here in moscow to meet up with russia's president putin and of course the his arrival happens just whether those geneva talks on iran's nuclear program open up he is said to will have. talks on his agenda here in moscow to try to convince for the last time
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the russians to go with what he believes is an exceedingly bad decision in terms of the runs nuclear program now we know that the rounds of the deal that's on the table is to try to hold iran's nuclear program and in return they will get a bit of relief from the sanctions that they have at the moment france has already said that the deal is already bad and they will not supported giving israel a friend but the deputy foreign minister of iran has said that israel has no right to dictate what the world how the world should deal with iran. some nations have such relations with tel aviv that they are influenced by their influence by the atmosphere that's been created around. five plus one countries which are holding talks with iran it is unbecoming when some of them were indeed
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one specific nation is being influenced by talk of these provocations very pam still on his quest to get a more and more support israeli prime minister will meet up with a uses john kerry on friday to try to put that case on the table again saying that this deal is exceedingly bad for the world and also for israel to try to target the next round of talks happening in geneva today any chance of a breakthrough do you think. well last week when the talks happened ten years later i mean it almost felt like there was some kind of hope but then runs through us that curveball and said they're not going to go ahead with it we know that mr rouhani has been contacted by the british prime minister david cameron saying that this is the time that that means it happened with the russians russia's president has also been quite vocal say it needs to happen now that dyleski with a chance not only that president obama has been trying to gather momentum from his side say this deal is
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a momentous deal if it happens and that congress must hold any kind of halt in trying to push forward for those for more sanctions against iran and the i.a.e.a. has also gone on to say that iran has a hole to any kind of activity since august so with all those components all those world leaders saying that this deal could be on the pipelines if we all just agreed to go ahead so it will be interesting to see how friends will vote this time and if israel indeed what will israel do if indeed this deal does go ahead toward artista by motor right in front of the kremlin thank you. well earlier here on r.t. we spoke to the former french prime minister dominique de villepin believes if a deal is not agreed israel could soon try to strike iran. the question is how much are we ready to take the risk to sign the agreement and i think to assess the importance of this agreement we must understand that it is
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a process of course we are not going to get the final agreement from scratch on wednesday but we can go in don't process of and i remember with and into memory of agreement and then we can progress and have a final agreement that will be better so i think it's a chance and we should take it it is the interest of the region because this will have strong consequences on the situation in syria on the situation in lebanon or on the peace process so this may change completely the dynamic of the region for good on the contrary if we don't sign the agreement if we don't take all the chances to sign this agreement we may have the strong consequences and we may face is strike in iran coming from israel it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today nato may be gradually withdrawing from afghanistan but the alliance is making sure its troops are kept busy elsewhere officials say military exercises on an
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unprecedented scale will take place in europe over the coming years now the latest war games held on russia's borders and poland in the baltic republics involved six thousand troops but that figure will be dwarfed by upcoming drills in spain and portugal where a force of more than forty thousand soldiers are expected to gather by twenty fifteen of the u.s. led block says this will be the first in a series of such exercises designed to make sure the allies keep working closely together as artie's pretty now reports there's little appetite in europe for such a costly military deployment. european nations can and should. do more to match america's commitment that commitment is said to see upwards of forty thousand troops deployed on maneuvers within the e.u. in the coming years all in portland work for the future of the alliance once the
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combat mission in afghanistan is over the question is how can you retain these operational experiences and capabilities and so you must exercise you must train your forces you must test whether the old routines work the command structure works but the troops are interoperable call is a former east german security officer turned author to spending a career watching nato during the cold war he isn't buying the reason given that this is all part of the winding down of operations in afghanistan. there isn't any need to put these troops in europe i think they would have ramped up operations even if it goes wasn't coming to an end since we moved. down it's down to what he sees as a change in nato policy following actions in libya towards syria. well most of them instead of a defensive army they want to make an army intervention of aggression there was
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responsible for three quarters of global army spending at a time when many of its members were for broke here in central lynn a group of demonstrators on saying no to wars of intervention but with many european economies still far from recovery there's a lack of enthusiasm for spending more on the military but. it's crazy to think that this has anything to do with a new rogue state by holding operations in europe it shows nato still looks towards russia. under the guess it in the toy of the population is getting poorer and war is getting more expensive this time for various sizes i threat to society. they want politicians to pay attention to the real cost of military spending. with most eurozone countries still fighting serious economic battles it's understandable why europeans would be uneasy about shelling out for nato war games at
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a time they can least afford it peter all of a r.t. . and the mountain of debt and austerity in european countries means they've been steadily slashing defense spending and the aftermath of the wars in afghanistan and libya have also decreased the appetite for military deployments but as our guy nature kind of reports the u.s. led bloc may still be prepared to pay the cost of putting more boots on the ground in europe. u.s. troops are supposed to be out of afghanistan by the end of next year that's around sixty thousand troops the military leadership is already thinking about how to keep him busy nato with his heart and mind in washington of course plans to sharply increase the size of its exercises in europe in coming years we're lucky to have douglas macgregor retired u.s. army colonel with us today thanks so much for coming through so the plan if we here for twenty fifteen nato has is war games with forty thousand troops in portugal
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and spain. these countries of course will have to chipping to make it happen that's a huge expense for their better the economies what's what's the origins of whatever nato conducts exercises of any kind there's always a great deal of time and money invested in what i would call a large solidarity and i know there is great concern about the troubled nature of the economies particularly on the iberian peninsula in portugal and spain i think we want to reaffirm the or close members of the alliance that we are behind that we support them and what better way to do that than to conduct an exercise in well in their grasp and a lot of money will mention that his money is already budgeted more than half the troops will probably be air and naval forces so they have to conduct a certain number of operations one way or the other there's already discussions on how nato. future they are so proud of what they did in libya it seems that they see their future in this kind of hit and run operations but what do you think about it
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libya was not a success we ultimately unleashed forces in that country sunni islamic forces that are edgy western. american and ultimately antithetical to the interests of libya's future social and political development we don't know how libya will turn out which nato sees it as a success but that's the message that sample for this operation is that that is a public message and truth. there were enormous problems with the operation how do you see the future of nato i think it's it's very questionable over time it's going to be harder and harder to hold the alliance together and so i don't see the nato alliance holding together in its current form for another decade but maybe these exercises are not such a bad idea maybe if for a while nato will not actually bomb and invade other countries to keep itself busy with me in washington colonel douglas macgregor and i'm going to step down and watch american and i want to form
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a german intelligence officer told us here at odyssey that nato is eager to keep flexing its military muscles in order to remind the competition that it's still a force to be reckoned with you have to see this against the background of the good strong live from afghanistan and there they didn't need military exercises because they could test their interoperability and everything on the ground but. now with the need to countries especially united states leaving afghanistan and beaten like a dog with the table between its legs they need to project and show the brute that these two go clothes shopping and teeth strong all this is part of the code to new of power projection of intimidating. nations that don't fall over on the terribly the you is so european lead. by just
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a couple of minutes away here on a blessing or amid anger at the level of immigration in the united kingdom looks at how much newcomers actually the country's economy. phenomena program here want to see japan's maffia is reportedly cashing in on the fukushima disaster by running the cleanup efforts of the damaged nuclear plant workers complain of being understaffed and mistreated by contractors who think nothing of throwing them into the areas of high risk and high radiation. has this report from japan. as if clearing out the dangerous debris in the aftermath of japan's worst natural disaster in a century was not tough enough this former fukushima worker says he's having to see you the firm which hired him. out of work i've done this in the army so when a job offer at fukushima came up i took it they promised a lot of money you can sign a long term contract and suddenly terminated not even being
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a third of the promise of the law you have a feeling that you were mistreated absolutely we were given no insurance for health risks no radiation meters we were treated like nothing like disposable people promise things and then when we received our large radiation dose this young man volunteered to jump into nuclear help to make a living many others though were forced so claims investigative journalist. who went undercover to fukushima filming with the camera hidden in his watch he discovered that many of the workers were brought in by the infamous underworld syndicate the young so this is. at fukushima. it was. in japan was a quite often when a certain construction project requires an immediate workforce in large numbers bosses make a phone call to the so was the case with fukushima the government called tepco to take a giant action tepco related to subcontractors and that eventually as they had a shortage of available workers give a call the young for help there was
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a reason but fukushima is no ordinary construction site the workers drawn to the power plant by the young kids or mostly with gambling debts to the organization or family obligations often had absolutely no idea what they were dealing with. they were given very general info about radiation and most were not even given radiation meters they could have exposed themselves to large doses without even knowing it even the so called fukushima fifty the first group of workers sent there immediately after the disaster at least three of them were enrolled by the. height of the wall suzuki published details of what he says is solid evidence of what tepco officials remain defined that any mistreatment or organized crime involvement is taking place and we're doing everything to ensure our workers operate in safe conditions we also deal harshly with law while eating subcontractors but the company and its subcontractors already short of hands there are twenty five percent
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more openings for jobs at fukushima plant than applicants according to government data gaps filled says suki by the homeless the desperately unemployed and even those with mental disabilities there are no exact figures as to how many people are involved in the fukushima clear up operation but rough estimates suggest that this may be up to a quarter of a million people and with experts saying that it may take another forty years to completely liquidate the aftermath of the disaster it's really hard to imagine how many more workers will be involved in this dangerous line of duty and more importantly how many of them will feel disposable and expendable once their jobs and. reporting from japan. more news just around the corner including who a car bomb of the iranian embassy in beirut on tuesday that with the rest of the top world headlines just about.
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a pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i roll the sushi. live from moscow thanks for joining us sectarian tensions have flared up in lebanon in the aftermath of a double suicide bombing right in the capital an al qaeda linked terror cell says it was responsible for attacking the iranian embassy in beirut leaving twenty three people dead one hundred fifty at least wounded in the bombings being linked to the conflict in neighboring syria lebanon and iran are both strong supporters of the syrian government would choose fighting a radical islamist insurgency and analysts say at the end of the day lebanon is simply an easy target. the muslim brigades is an offshoot of al qaida it's named after a founder. it professes to be backing the syrian revolution and these things all
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pull together and in the region that is heavily focused on syria and now iran hezbollah off course being an ally of these two and the iranian embassy attack i think we have to look at in light of what's going on the region if i love an ons an easy target it just simply doesn't have a strong national army that is defending its borders it's a vulnerable state it's obviously a lot easier to move around than iran would be and these are attempts to strike at a vulnerable proxy. or ally of iran and syria are coming up in just just over two hours it'll be crosstalk piddle of eleanor's guests are debating the role of foreign forces are certainly being partially blamed for fueling the syrian conflict. now the opposition which is riven internally fractured is now depending upon its patrons and saudi arabia to attack assad's allies for instance in lebanon today the bombing syria has pointed the finger of saudi
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arabia. america wants iran out of the peace negotiations but really the country that is prolonging this war that is the core the cause of the instability is saudi arabia and it's it's absurd that's how the arabia is our ally in this region they're going to really regret this one day if not already been funneling all these people foreign nationals into a civil war everyone why did we call a revolution and now it's just a proxy war which is taking the lives of a lot of people that do not like these foreigners in their country this is i'm glad you mentioned lebanon earlier because this is what it's going to get down to in my opinion a partition go ahead joseph. you know that i mean i find myself in a kind of funny situation as and he's rarely to intervene between that and in saudi arabia to decide who started what fair doesn't matter anymore look it she was as they call it the phony sense that she is and live in lebanon and syria have become
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there are enough of this world where that it was planted by the saudis for the iranian government that. in just a couple hours on that edition of crossfire today another britain's population is set to rise by almost ten million over just the next couple of decades over half of that those thanks to immigration many are against the massive influx of foreigners but as artie's tester australia now reports a new comers to offer the u.k. more than just strength in numbers. the fabric of british society is a diverse want to diversify is evident in areas like this one in rwanda hopeful that at the most recent report of the office of national system that diversity looks set to continue the overall population of the u.k. is expected to reach some seventy three point three million by two thousand and thirty seven that some my point six million in the next twenty five years now sixty percent of that increase or some five point eight million people is willing to
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immigration new arrivals or people having babies when they settle. the figures put into question prime minister david cameron said a reducing of immigration to the tens of thousands by the end of this parliament now those who are against immigration always go back to the argument that more people means more pressure on the social welfare system of the u.k. however contrary to popular belief another side says that those because who would come here since two thousand actually contributed more in taxes than claimed benefit the debate about immigration is a very emotional one. few. uncertainties and it's. identifying somebody who may be responsible for the economic situation in which many people find themselves very often receive evidence given in terms of. so it is important to look at the overall number which is when we look at the.
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to find that immigrants from countries who are wife after nine hundred ninety nine have made a positive fiscal contribution it's a tricky topic one that's constantly debated in the u.k. there have been a recent attempts to curb immigration such as the scrap of opposing a three thousand pound bomb that visitors from certain countries or the valves go into a round of with a big billboard selling illegal immigrants to go home they've been controversial to say the least but in the end it's the numbers the tell the real story albeit called like a good one but the tough talking in the u.k. isn't showing any signs of abating. just r.t.d. london. initial investigation into the crash of a boeing seven thirty seven in russia's city of cazan puts the blame firmly on the pilots it's thought flying air is forced the passenger plane to nose dive at four hundred fifty kilometers an hour straight into the ground killing all fifty people
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on board and the first attempted landing failed and during the second try the autopilot was switched off and unusually steep ascent right there caused the speed to drop and attempts to correct that resulted in that devastating freefall and the ongoing investigation now focused on finding the missing cockpit voice recorder. well time here on the program some other global news for you in brief to baghdad we go away if a bomb attacks has killed at least twenty four and wounded eighty seven in the iraqi capital this morning the blasts hit commercial areas of baghdad in mostly shia districts the deadliest explosion was in the central neighborhood after a parked car bomb went off right next to an outdoor market of violence in iraq is rising to levels not seen since two thousand and eight with almost a thousand deaths in october and over six thousand since the start of the year. disputes over a u.s. afghan security pact forced the u.s.
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secretary of state john kerry to personally phone president karzai and acknowledge mistakes have been made during the twelve year war america wants to ensure its soldiers can continue night raids and have immunity from legal jurisdiction inside afghanistan washington also plans to leave around ten thousand troops behind after the pullout but the afghan government wants president obama himself so personally issue an apology saying that is a crucial part of any deal. and to egypt clashes erupting between supporters and opponents of the military government police used tear gas and batons to disperse the crowds rally was staged to commemorate the two year anniversary of one of the country's bloodiest demonstrations just a day earlier a new memorial dedicated to demonstrators killed in the twenty eleven protests was vandalized. and at least one person has been killed after a shopping mall still under construction collapsed in south africa another thirty
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