today in the green movement they do it by imposing taxes on flights and forcing everyone to use yellow light bulbs that give you a headache. there is this idea that we punish ourselves in order to make the world a better place, and it is my contention in the book which may initially seem a controversial contention that the facts bear this out that actually you don't have to make a choice between either the environment or economic growth. on the contrary, real environmentalism and economic growth go hand-in-hand. i will give you one example of this. in the victorian times at the height of the british empire when i might tell you the tax rate is about 10% when the british economy was thriving pretend the river that runs through london was stagnant like washington and the summer it would grow so putrescent in the summer months that it was known as the great stink of disgusting what flowed past. as people got off the train on the railway stations near the river they would sometimes a bomb attack at the nauseating stench. why did this no longer have been? what is because the victorians unde

he gained international fame as the leader of the green movement.s been under house arrest since february. in a recent meeting with his daughters, he compared his detention to marquez's account of abduction by a drug cartel in columbia. news of it spread and just like that, news of a kidnapping went viral. what does this say about iran and the aspirations of the iranian people? best evidence by a u.n. report on human rights in iran. shows how at that ran mastered the art of suppressing dissent. hundreds of activists and journalists and students are arrested for taking part in demonstrations since the 2009 green movement. more than 200 executions have been officially announced this year. barring china, no other country meets out the death penalty more often. why aren't we seeing push back? it is the year of the arab spring. where are iran's protesters? one answer could be that at that ran learned its lesson from 2009. now it crushes the first sign of dissent. also known from watching the arab spring it won't let hundreds of people gather in public pl

by twenty twenty two and the use of nuclear energy in germany so what now the green movement and its hopes for renewable energy have been given a huge boost renewables mostly wind turbines but the photovoltaics better known as solar panels currently supply eighteen percent of germany's electricity indeed germany has big plans for green energy ending to go from eighteen to eighty percent renewables after the nuclear switch off some say it's crazy to do it this way but others say second option is to say when somebody can make it happen it was a german but a closer look at the russia out of nuclear reveals there's more hope riding on its for nubile replacements the natural readiness that planned eighty percent will take forty years at least and with nuclear electricity disappearing in germany in eleven years that will leave a decades long energy gap and that's the view of energy expert claudia convert who sees only one way to bridge the energy gap and it's not agreement we have new. fire departments here in order not to have those kind of blackout germans have long been world leaders in

germany has long had a strong green nuclear movement but it was one accident that finally turned the tide against nuclear power that. by twenty twenty two we will and the use of nuclear energy in germany so what now the green movement and its hopes for renewable energy have been given a huge boost renewables mostly wind turbines and solar panels currently supply eighteen percent of germany's electricity indeed germany has big plans for green energy i mean to go from eighteen to eighty percent renewables after the nuclear switch off but a closer look at the rush out of nuclear reveals there's more hope riding on its renewable replacements the natural readiness that planned eighty percent will take forty years at least and with nuclear electricity disappearing in germany in eleven years that will leave a decades long energy gap we have new. fire power plants here in order not to have that kind of blackout germans have long been world leaders in their enthusiasm for a new about energy and their disdain for nuclear power now they've taken their leap of faith but it's far from when techno

two years ago ahmadinejad tried to steal an election, 2009, in response the green movement sprang up to protest, come out into the streets. remarkable movement, gained a lot of attention in the west. remarkable to us and for my book, also, because here was an example of islam being used both by the regime in a horribly depressive way and by these people in a libber story way. the green movement, green being the color of islam -- it's not a coincidence -- and to use islam in just an absolutely incredible way to resist autocracy of ahmadinejad. haven't yet, of course, become successful as you all may know, but still are keeping at it. i had a very pessimistic ending to my chapter, that it seemed to be done with. not at all, and we'll get to that in a bit. but taking inspiration from those that came back earlier this year, tens of thousands came out in the streets, showed that they still have life, they still are able to function. iraq had a small nonviolent resistance move to the u.s. occupation comprised of women's groups, labor groups, all these groups coming together, was able to per

and also the green movement is the only domestic opposition we see in iran but it has some kind of decision because some people love the street when the space revolution in iran and others want gradual reform because in the iran we had a revolution in 1979 and things got worse so rather than having a massive change we should have a gradual change so on the one hand we have the question of year and on the other hand the question of how to go forward with the green movement and all the other hand like 20% of the population would support the regime because they are living from it. the basij people go to the university because they belong to the basij so they are not going to turn away from this regime that is going against them, so this is a major challenge. with america have been right to support these people in 2009? i think we should try to support people love this freedom everywhere in the world but we should do it in a way that helps them and have president obama come out and publicly support them that would have been detrimental to the green movement at that time because the regime with

i mean, the-- the democratic rebellion in the summer of 2009, the green movement cited obama openly aswith the united states. that and his mind was a very dangerous repercussions from obama's attempt at engagement. >> paul: now you say we should strike back militarily and talking about tougher sanctions. what kind of military strike are you talking about? what should we consider? >> i think the most intelligent thing to do is probably going and limited thing, would be to go after revolutionary guard corps facilities. particularly those that were used to support their operations inside of iraq, which led to the death of hundreds of u.s. soldiers. >> and identify our response, tot for tat, saying this is in response to the assassination plot? >> absolutely. absolutely. i mean, right now, the iranians are escalating the americans and doing nothing and i think it's a bit silly, individuals who have risen are going to be terribly repressed with sanctions as our response. i think down the road we're asking for more of this. >> thank you for being here. we have to take one more break. when we

twitter feed to get the latest on those demonstrations from the heart of the action and the anti green movement attracts more attention as reports of allegedly groundless arrests emerge blogger christopher greene believes american cities are likely to witness even more violence as the marches spread from coast to coast there is going to be some kind of martyrdom in the near future we are going to see violence or rob we can or you know we already have the violence in this country with the police pepper spraying protesters with you know innocent teenage women and be you know but taunting you know on kiro this is what the alternative media showcasing right now again this is a revolution this is this is a change in psychology this is an evolution in human consciousness the people are waking up and we're demanding change this is no different from what we saw overseas in the middle east and northern africa the revolution has now come to the united states of america. and what started as one determined to protest in wall street has this weekend become a worldwide phenomenon galvanized into action in on

and the green movement got in the way of the deal.f you look at how slow they were to respond and how -- how awkward their response was and the president's response was, i think it indicates that. i don't -- in general, i'm suspect of this deal that says an embrace by the united states is the kiss of death. i think if you watch -- if you look at what's going on throughout the whole region, we've always heard this particularly what's going on in the region. there's lots of people in the opposition throughout the middle east who want embrace from the united states. but the most important thing is to ask them. there are all kinds of ways to get in contact with them and say what do you want from the united states? what would help? and there are all kinds of ways the united states can provide assistance either directly, overtly, covertly through third parties, indirectly, all sorts of -- all sorts of ways but you have to ask the question and i don't even think -- i don't think that the administration asked the question to begin with. it mi

you want to understand and to avoid properly legal actions seen as the only way to stop the green movement of national history or the. schools now give ten percent of their share your to the needy will african well inquire i studied it and what exactly is it contribution to world development. thousands of signed a petition of the french revolution lessons were replaced by the african kingdom of more than multiple which many say they have never heard of the ministry of education refused to be interviewed but gave us this statement where a change in the school curriculum to reflect globalisation one of the thomas being taught because it's important to have a view on other worlds cultures such as egypt china and india the new european parliament reports back to compulsory school lessons on the benefits of the e.u. from quote a very young age critics want kids learning less and less about their own country states which stop teaching their poles they say consigned themselves to history the new push to r.t. paris. brings out the me here in r.t. and i'll be back with a recap our top stories short

the anti green movement attracts more attention as reports of legit groundless arrests of some predictive more violence on the streets of american cities as the marches spread from coast to coast. there is going to be some kind of martyrdom in the near future we're going to see violence or rob we could argue that we already have the violence in this country with the police pepper spraying protesters with you know innocent teenage women and be you know but taunted you know on to hear oh this is what the alternative media showcasing right now again this is a revolution this is this is a change in psychology this is an evolution in human consciousness the people are waking up and we're demanding change this is no different from what we saw overseas in the middle east and northern africa the revolution has now come to the united states of america so what started in wall street's no spread worldwide this weekend to galvanize into action in one of the largest collective movements of its kind tens of thousands of spilled into the city streets across the world and to great protests have already t

heavy police presence on patrol in new york as the occupy wall street movement gains against bank green movement against a banker and enters its fourth week and gets a deeper foothold across the u.s. the sentiment has already spread to the country's other major cities including boston chicago los angeles and washington new york's mayor how strongly criticized the swelling on arrest against the power of wall street saying if the banks fail more people will lose their jobs protests have already cost the city about two million dollars while most brushoff demonstrators as an archivist archy's anastasio churkin a discovered it's a far more organized set of. these are anarchists these are the people that you know. accused of being anarchist and disorganized the occupy wall street encampment is far from chaotic it is set up like a small village broken up into themed sections better organized than i thought it would be. they really have it set up so that there isn't a clear leader in the organization the way that it's being done but at the same time. every part seems to be handled by someone in the medi

you want to understand and divide properly legal action scene is the only way to stop the green movement of mesnil history of our. schools now give ten percent of their share you'll to the needy will african well inquire i studied it and what exactly is it contribution to world development. thousands to sign the petition of the french revolution lessons were replaced by the african kingdom of more than mata poll which many say they've never heard of the ministry of education refused to be interviewed but gave us this statement. we're changing the school curriculum to reflect globalization suppose being told because it's important to have a view on the world conscience such as egypt china and india the new european parliament reports but compulsory school lessons on the benefits of the e.u. from quote a very young age critics want kids are learning less and less about their own country states which still teaching maypoles they say concern themselves to history . balti paris. take a short break here on our team and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories. the news. copra are. we here

if you say you green movement, o you will get money. >> eric: this was supposed to be a green truck stopurn off the engine and -- >> greg: green truck stop? >> eric: plug in the wall. >> eric: do you think we could convince people on the show to talk about the progra programs that got money that didn't work? >> bob: it wouldn't be good tv, right? we have to get to one more story. >> eric: 11 banks, swiss banks, unders have for hiding account number and names of american investors and now they have to come clean. they may pay fines. two questions. >> bob: save one for me. >> eric: a couple of them, credit swiss and ubs, received some is up u.s. support in the crisis. >> dana: this investigation and the request to get money, to get them to reveal their list of people with the private bank account started in the bush administration and long time in coming. the f.b.i. is coming to a close. i think the banks are going to reveal these names. that will be a -- >> bob: you will find out where rich people in the country. average person doesn't hide their money in the bank account. rich people got

world at the end of the day, as we saw the beginnings of the green movement in iran, it is not sustainable over time. we live in a 24-7 internet and media connected world. the iranian people understand that there are better and different ways to live their lives. the real question here which goes to what senator corker raised is the time line. that is our strategy of both intense pressure, internationalized, and persuasion -- will it achieve the deterrence we all seek, the ultimate elimination of iran's nuclear-weapons ambition. >> i am cutting you off. your answer is exactly the answer i have heard every time. i think you'd find that many leaders around a world of look at north korea and pakistan and said we would rather be in their shoes then in the shoes of libya. it is a nice type argument of the world is more complicated than that when you're looking at the psychology of foreign leaders. one of the concerns in terms of the ability to resistance to rein in government that has been raised by various groups is whether we're in a position, if you will, to assist with the cell phone and in

really good and it is definitely a country that loves the movies and i think we saw through the green movement here a year or two ago, there are huge -- a huge sentiment in the country to be free of the dictates of those who would want to run the country. iran is a democracy on a certain level. they actually do have free elections, anyone can run, and there have been a couple documentaries i've seen that are incredible things and they're not -- i try to avoid any sort of evil act, axis of evil discussion because i know that there are people in our government, now that we've had our way with iraq, want to move on to the next bogeyman and iran seems to be it. and there are certain forces that want us to now go to war or bomb iran, things like that. and i try to avoid any kind of -- i don't want to be associated with anything to do with my government attacking anybody else again on this planet. so i think we leave to it iranian people and i think they are going to stand up and get the country they want. and i'm hopeful for that. >> this is michael moore's most recent book, "here comes trouble." s

popular as an expression of iranian nationalism and power will continue, even the leaders of the green movement strongly support that program. obama should return to his original approach and test the iranians to see if there is any room for dialogue and agreement. engaging with iran, putting its nuclear program under supervision of some kind, and finding areas of common interest as exist in afghanistan would all be important goals. it might not work. the iranian regime is divided and often paralyzed itself, but it's worth trying. strategic engagement in w an adversary can go hand in hand with a policy that encourages change in the country. that's how washington dealt with the soviet union and china in the 1970s and '80s. iran is a country of 80 million people, educated, dynamic. it sits astride a crucial part of the world. it cannot be sanctioned and pressed down for decades and decades. it is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order. we need a strategy that combines pressure with some path to bring iran in from the cold. let's get started. >>> a deal to save the euro, 2.5%