it has central asia on one hand. this regime may have trouble yet transform itself and it may be overthrown but there will always be iran. saudi arabia is more tenuous. it's the creation of a family. it's not synonymous with of the arabian peninsula. there are -- they've always had trouble keeping them in line being more cosmopolitan, so you know, in iran is very strongly institutionalized. it's not a one-man -- it has different centers of power that or against each other and a complex bureaucratic border. again the gift of the iranian plateau and the. i would say that our brand strategy has to be that the u.s. has been estranged for the third of the century between 48 and 72. at some point and this is what they think about there has to be the u.s.. does all of iran support the nuclear program but it's unclear all of iran supports nuclear weapons, you know, there's a distinction so the critical factor is what do we need to do to normalize relations with iraq. the answer may be a very strong military reaction if the w

subject to explain radical islamism is means one how business in north africa in the middle east in central asia as well in southeast asia and to develop such a strategy to get our allies the western world to keep it sounds pretty nationalist forces say the developing suburbs is only a cover up for investment into radical islamic groups that i was investing against they've been regime even a small market and he was not the best guy actually interfering now we have a civil war involving a lot of islamist presence as in syria today we know that is investing in. this group and arming them so all. of it not so good so good partner for us and stories like that of mohamed merah a shooter from toulouse who killed seven jews this spring stirred the debate he came from one of the troubled areas where qatar is planning to invest and public discourse on the matter suggests that people in france are not certain whether the oil rich state would cure such a problem or aggravate it. auntie reporting from paris. sports with kate partridge after a short break. the sun rises over what seems like and last forest b

of course that part of the energy subject to there will be a big discussion on the campuses on central asia and especially on the syrian situation so america has to take into account the russian position as much as the us while being an ally within nato and going to please the countries in the gulf which are big groups that. for a fair faceoff between egypt's president and the country's judiciary shows no signs of dying down in the midst supporters of mohamed morsi have remained outside egypt's most powerful court since they encircled it on saturday due to rule on the legality of the islamist control panel that drew up egypt's two constitution judges instead went on strike willing to be intimidated by the protests the court has also refused to oversee the referendum on the draft legislation set for mid december comes as anti president that mr mute calls for demos against what they call an oppressive regime last march is planned for tuesday and that's the political turmoil continues egypt's finances are also suffering economist explained to tom barton in cairo. with protests continuing aroun

wants to have a beachhead in the only terms of controlling central asia oil and gas resources and that's another story as well we should talk about resources if we don't change this model which is the french. you know it's waste it's a waste model basically. fossil fuels this thing is going to explode with the middle class middle class and inside the capital the western capitalist system within the next few years is not even decades. in fact when we have. what's happening in greece spain italy. portugal when they sing hits the norse in european countries any it will inevitably maybe north german maybe not germany because germany has a very sound economy they have their export mall though they're doing strategic alliances with russia in terms of oil and gas as well they are sustainable but the rest of europe that would exceptional about germany and scandinavia is not then we going to have sort of. by wall street movement inside western europe as well and this is going to happen within the next few years all right gentlemen because the model itself is unsustainable right gentlemen to jump

so question the cartel operated mostly in gulf countries again it's down in other countries in central asia and then transported drugs through some central asian countries. just got us are still stunned nor were you able to apprehend them even there like i said we arrested twenty five people so some of them were caught out say russia we have identified people abroad who arranged those deliveries and we will never put them on the wanted list of you and seek their extradition to sweden to talk about these bosses who organized all that.

and this is supposed to reduce the you's dependence on russia and the dying gasp from central asia. in contrast, south stream is due to start delivering gas in 2015. >> voting is drawing to a close in presidential elections in ghana. the poles expected to test the country's reputation as a beacon of stability and democracy in africa. >> the election will reveal how popular the incumbent is after he took over from the late president who died in july. opinion polls predict a tight race. the winner will oversee the current oil boom, one of africa's fastest-growing economies. soccer fans are no doubt eagerly awaiting the next european football championship in 2016. hundreds of thousands of fans will flock to get a firsthand look at the action. >> in the year 2020, that will not be so easy. that is because european soccer's governing body has decided that the games will take place in cities across the continent. >> they say the decision to split the play across europe is to celebrate the competition's 60th anniversary. >> european football fans can look forward to a party that spans the

t the are post-war reconstruction by a a network linking afghanistan with its neighbors in central asia. nhk world reports from kabul. >> reporter: afghanistan railway started service earlier this year. the 75 kilometer line runs between the northern cities, linking the country with uzbekistan. it is used to transport food and supplies needed for reconstruction efforts. now officials are planning further lines. in an interview with nhk, the minister said afghanistan is planning now routes. >> translator: we aim to build links with two neighbors by the end of next year and we hope to start construction soon after. >> reporter: the asian development project is aexpected to overassist us. the head of the office, it plans to offer $240 million to help finance the project. afghanistan is rich in natural resources. its deposits of crude oil, ian ore, gold, copper and other resources are estimated to be worth nearly $1 trillion. the government has set its sights on developing mines and oil fields and exporting resources to neighboring countries by rail. but the countries aspirations go even fu

reconstruction by building an extensive railway network linking afghanistan with its neighbors in central asia. nhk world reports from kabul. >> reporter: afghanistan railway started service earlier this year. the 75 kilometer line runs between the northern cities, linking the country with uzbekistan. it is used to transport food and supplies needed for reconstruction efforts. now officials are planning further lines. in an interview with nhk, the minister said afghanistan is planning new routes. >> translator: we aim to build links with two neighbors by the end of next year and we hope to start construction soon after. >> reporter: the asian development project is aexpected to overassist us. the head of the office, it plans to offer $240 million to help finance the project. afghanistan is rich in natural resources. its deposits of crude oil, iron ore, gold, copper and other resources are estimated to be worth nearly $1 trillion. the government has set its sights on developing mines and oil fields and exporting resources to neighboring countries by rail. but the countries aspirations go even f

because of course that part of the subject to that would be a discussion on the campuses sort central asia and especially of the syrian situation so it has to take into the russian position as much as the u.s. while being an ally within nato and please the arab countries in the gulf which of course that. were egypt's top judges have agreed to see the referendum on the draft constitution in two weeks time according to the legal aide to president mohamed morsi this follows a standoff for the leaders in the supporters who had besieged the supreme court building and prevented judges from entering due to whom in the galaxy of the is the most control panel that dropping egypt's new constitution judges instead went on strike well into me today to the protests it comes as anti mercy activists renewed calls for demonstrations against what they call an oppressive regime that mass marches planned for tuesday and that's the political turmoil continues in egypt finances are also suffering as economist better toilet explain to tom barton in cairo. with protests continuing around the clock both for and a

three now this has raised further doubts about the pipeline originally intended to bring gas from central asia directly to europe more or less less joined nick poor business desk so nick does this effectively mean that the project is dead. although. germany second biggest utility and with it putting it out it's very tempting to say you know the end is knowing especially when you consider earlier this year the project was already sort of scaled back. enormously from its original conception now on w e has told the likes of reuters and the f.t. that it is in talks with. the australia's largest energy for also another part in. its statement however this will make the the biggest shareholder but it will do very little i think to push forward the prospects of the group to actually being built i will not broker was promoted for such a long time as a key element of europe's energy security you've got the backing of washington of brussels what has gone wrong why is it not being built the european energy market has fundamentally changed before the financial crisis in two thousand it was assumed that the

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work over time ok look i have a bill agree i agree with alex and in terms of when i travel in central asia for instance their model is not the west their model is western europe there's absolutely no question about that in the the way. it's a waste model basically being used to own a fossil fuels this thing is going to explode with the middle class of our adult middle class and inside the capital the western capitalist system within the next few years is not even decades in fact when we have this what's happening in greece spain parts of italy. portugal when this sink hits the norse in european countries any it will inevitably maybe not german maybe not germany because germany has a very sound economy they have their export model they're doing a strategic alliances with russia in terms of oil and gas as well they are sustainable but the rest of europe with the exception of germany and scandinavia is not then we going to have sort of the occupy wall street movement inside western europe as well and this is going to happen within the next few years our economy because the model itself is uns

and central asia as well as the infrastructure, the pipelines and other things needed to transport these resources. i would also like to elaborate a little bit more about bahrain. we have some people on the panel today that we will ask questions about bahrain. and they have some intimate knowledge of some of the problems that have taken place there, and as i said before, the concerns that we have in the car cases, the whole region is only a part of the concern that we feel for the region. bahrain has been an ally of the united states for a long, long time. we have our fifth -- and the attempts by iranians to work with dissident forces there in bahrain to undermine the government is something that we must be concerned about. i talked to the leadership over there, and they are concerned about the problems that some of the people feel toward the government and they have tried to work with them to solve that problem. so far the problems have not all been solved. and for that reason they continue to try to work with them, even though we know and they know from intelligence sources that iran i

the central asia but you know britain's also signed the five powers defense range meant it includes singapore malaysia new zealand australia and this and also obama has announced a pivot to the pacific if you will so really what we're looking at i believe that the gulf states they're looking to arm them and pull them into nato and possibly might see a reformation of nato to become another name or another treaty signed which is a bigger military service organization a lot of critics say this gets to a one world army or world police force so certainly very worrying looking into that in the next year or two considering the situation with iran so forth and things take the time to be with us you political analyst patrick henningsen there live on the line from london. if you're. international news now in briefing start with amateur video that submerged in the immediate aftermath of an airstrike in syria let's take a look it struck a crowd in the central province reportedly leaving dozens dead activists say many more have died and that the attack was carried out by government forces there's been no

going to work overtime ok look i have a bill agree with alex and in terms of when i travel in central asia for instance their model is not the us their model is western europe. question about that well when you consider the way they're living it was back to stan which is one of the most absurd and the more dangerous dictatorial regimes in the world but nobody says anything about those because then they do ask because they are allied with the u.s. or specially the us wants to have a beachhead in its back is done in terms of controlling central oil and gas resources and that's another story as well we should talk about resources if we don't change this model which is the french. you know it's waste it's a waste model basically to own a fossil fuels this thing is going to explode with the middle class over adult middle class and inside the capital the western capitalist system within the next few years is not even decades in fact when we have this what's happening in greece spain parts of italy. portugal when they sing hits the norse in european countries any it will inevitably maybe not germ

this has raised further doubts about the pipeline originally intended to bring gas from central asia directly to europe from all that. pool from the business desk next does this effectively mean that the the bigger project is that. well i think the fact that. germany's second biggest utility was a major force in this project it bailing out well it's very much like the end is nigh. it's especially when you consider the project was scaled down quite radically earlier this year it's already much less than its original conception now is in toolbox with the to sell it sixteen point five percent stake in the which is already a shareholder in the blue code the fact that it will be will become the largest stakeholder though i think that means little pretty much little towards the progress of getting the build started its stock in stock trading water talking about. what has happened what has gone wrong with nobuko i mean it's received a lot of support it's been backed as a key element of europe's energy security got backing from brussels and washington why is it not being there because the ga

went down and the soviet union collapsed, remarkable expansion of freedom generally throughout central asia. sadly in russia we haven't -- we have seen a return to not quite the old-style days but bad and the senate adopted the magnificent act 92-4 which is a great statement. [applause] >> i said to one of my colleagues there are days you'll be shocked by this in recent times when i left the senate wondering if i had done anything that would matter during that day. as part of a large majority, we have done something -- this is history, victory over communism and the soviet union, somehow the respite from conflict with short, there are lessons to be learned. both of these were ideological conflicts at heart. these people missed that and the conflict we're in with islamist extremists, it is a theology whether it is an ideology. the other hopeful thing to say is ultimately, as generally happens, communism collapsed at the weight of its own repression and evil and i am confident what is true of islam as extremists and terrorism but the other lessons that you have to be clearer in making the ide

in central asia, a military plane crashed early this morning in kazakhstan killing 27 people including the country's head of border security. the russian-made aircraft went down near a southern city. the dead also included seven crew members and 19 border guards. there was no immediate word on the cause of the crash but kazakhstan has been plagued by heavy winds and snow in recent weeks. the long-time actor charles durning died monday at his home in new york. he came to be known as the king of character actors. in a 50-year career that spanned broadway, the movies and television. along the way he earned two oscar nominations. one was for his role as the corrupt governor in the best little whorehouse in texas in 1992. in tootsies he played the suitor of dustin hoffman who was posing as a female soap opera star. now back to gwen. >> ifill: we turn to politics and part 2 of our lookality upcoming elections. last night i had talkd with newshour political editor christina bellantoni about how senate contests. tonight we continue our conversation. welcome. let's talk some more politics. i wa

. >> some autocratic regime in central asia maybe. don't know. >> here is some more interesting numbers. more interesting numbers from the new ppp poll. what do republicans think was really behind the president's electoral win. when asked whether the president won the election legitimately or whether the now defunct a.c.o.r.n. group stole it for him, 49% of republicans say that a.c.o.r.n. stole the election. that's why obama won. half the republicans say democrats are engaged in voter fraud. ron, i'm far more fascinated by the fact that all these republicans believe that a.c.o.r.n. -- how can you put your signature to that? how can somebody say to that openly on the telephone, well, i think a.c.o.r.n. did it? >> because they hear it on fox news. that's why. fox news beats the drum about this kind of stuff, and that's all these people listen to. they live in this bubble. >> i think they misheard it and they thought a unicorn stole the election. >> i mean a.c.o.r.n. they don't have a nickel to rub against another nickel, and they're run

>> i think that -- iran straddles an ancient migration path into central asia and ideally it would bederful to set off on foot across iran. i'm going to see what relations are like in the late 2015, hopefully they're well enough, good enough, to allow me to go through iran. >> sreenivasan: if there's a necessary detour, how long does that take to get around? >> it's a big place to walk around. part of the beauty, i think, of this long project is that there are going to be obstacles that i don't know answers to about how to get around them until i get there. and we'll see. sarin dip city a big part of this project. >> sreenivasan: what are the types of steps you've been taking? you've been planning this for a last couple years. visas? immunizations. what else? >> there's a lot of logistical planning that's gone into getting mainly governments comfortable with somebody walking through their territories. it's an unusual request, as you might imagine. but a lot of it also is just finding the stories enroute, pre-reporting them and, frankly, leaving some of it open. don't overplan it. beca

allied countries also called for swift international action to end the bloodshed in syria.in in central asia, a military plane crashed early this morning in kazakhstan, killing 27in people, including the country's head of border security.ll the russian-made aircraft went down near the southern city of shymkent. the dead also included seven crew members and 19 border guards. there was no immediate word on the cause of the crash, but kazakhstan has been plagued by heavy winds and snow in recent weeks. the long-time actor charles durning died monday at his home in new york. he came to be known as the "king of the character actors" in a 50-year career that spanned 5 broadway, the movies and television. along the way, he earned two oscar nominations. one was for his role as the corrupt governor in "the best little whorehouse in texas" in 1982. i and in "tootsie," he played the9 unwitting suitor of dustin hoffman, who was posing as a female soap opera star. charles durning was 89 years old. those are some of the day's major stories. a now, back to gwen. >> ifill: we turn to politics and part two o

intelligence sources and others have reported on the participation of fighters from the caucuses, central asia and other neighboring countries. there's no doubt it is galvanizing many fighters to come and join what they say is a religious fight against secularism. >> we've heard talk of an increasingly desperate syrian government considering the use of chemical weapons against its own citizens. is this still a possibility or has president obama's warning been taken to heart by the authorities? >> well, it's extremely difficult to ascertain right now whether or not that is going to unfold like that. what we do know from western intelligence officials who have told nbc news is chemical weapons have been mixed at least in various military facilities in and around various parts of syria, but at the same time we also know from the syrian government, they have categorically rejected they would use such weapons. the criticism that many would say is you simply cannot trust the syrian regime or take it for its word. when it's gotten desperate it has resorted to brutal violence and there's no doubt it h