you don't. charge because the show. doesn't say iran is building a weapon it says it's collecting all the information it would need to do so and western forces aren't saying they want to start of war with iran but they are collecting the information they would need to do so so will the new i.a.e.a. report on iran's nuclear potential the ammunition they need to mount an attack and the sounds of anyone else like in iraq two thousand and three. and survey says a considerable amount of americans harbor anti jewish attitudes and the intolerance is only getting worse as the economy heads south so while countries all over the world remember the international day against anti-semitism all americans do the same. i think it's the reality of the world we live in

a later post nine eleven the safety protections that. you know we have to take thank you for cross winds are one thing but this the washington this is the washington d.c. where buildings look more like fortresses than symbols of american freedom and prosperity and in your face security is just a way of life welcome to the new american reality. it's wednesday november ninth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for sound watching our team. well after much anticipation and speculation the international atomic energy agency has released its latest report on iran's nuclear capabilities and it there's new information about the development of new technology relevant to the production of nuclear weapons could suggest perhaps iran may be working on developing nuclear weapons and this has been several

years of gathering information intelligence from ten member states interviews and satellite imagery now some are reading this as evidence that many of the activities associated with a nuclear weapons program were supposed to stop in two thousand and three have in fact continued but officials in tehran continue to deny all of these charges going really or claims that it is simply seeking peaceful use of nuclear energy but this was the most comprehensive and critical report yet and as artie's going to chicken reports it's raising fears it could be a pretext for a future attack on iran. right now will be you my nuclear watchdog found no smoking gun but hyped up fears that your brain continues research on nuclear weapons it doesn't say iran is building a weapon but it says it's collecting all the information it would need to do so and has a lot of technology in the international atomic energy agency claims to have iranian

computer models of knew you were heads which the watchtower views as a possible indication that iran plans to build an atomic bomb among other evidence a satellite image of a steel container that might be used to secretly cast the high explosives needed to trigger and clear weapons i would be very skeptical about this report that's coming out from the international atomic energy agency because the i.a.e.a. doesn't really have any intelligence capabilities of its own and if it's relying on reports that are coming from other or i would rather suspect those reports are coming from the united states and israel the president of u.s. intelligence presenting thoughts and begins to build a case for the war in iraq raises alarm bells as to the accuracy of the atomic agency's latest report on it you ran you may have a piece of evidence of some kind but that piece of evidence is subject to your interpretation as to what it means when they saw aerial photographs in iraq showing certain things they interpreted those photographs to mean something which which was

it was not correct back in two thousand and three the u.s. was adamant his evidence on iraq's weapons of mass destruction and terrorist activity was as solid as could be satellite images of a base where saddam hussein was believed to train terrorists evidence of more by lab scope biological weapons aluminum tubes presented as components of centrifuges to enrich uranium all of the above proved to be a hoax. and yet it was enough to start a war that would last eight years and kill more than a hundred thousand civilians israel is considering military action to take out iran's nuclear facilities preemptively the question is could the un's atomic watchdog serve as a justification to start a war with iran security experts say the consequences for such action would be catastrophic we would most likely see new kinds of attacks probably on israel from

hezbollah or other groups we'd see attacks on american troops perhaps in iraq and afghanistan even more than what we've seen so far iran i mean could retaliate in conventional terms that could attack saudi arabian oil fields if you really want to see a crisis in the in your in the international economy despite tough rhetoric coming from both israel and the u.s. many agree that washington and tel aviv are most likely to use the record as political leverage to try and isolate iran and possibly to put a flourishing economic relations with china no one in the international community wants to have nuclear weapons but what they hear is a unilateral action by israel with the backing of the united states that we join on fire at a time when it is as on stable as it gets millions of lives could be in danger if policymakers in washington or tell of the decide to jump the gun and start a war on grounds which are far from being transparent i'm going to check our

reporting from washington our key. all right so with the release of the i.a.e.a. report there are some simple questions and also some more complicated ones to the findings show that iran is in fact going forward with a plan to include acquire nuclear weapons and also who would benefit from increased evidence that iran is in fact developing its nuclear program paul craig roberts is a former official with the reagan administration i spoke to him a little earlier from panama city florida so in order to get some perspective having been in washington during the eighty's i asked him how big of a problem iran was and what are some of the significant ways that things have changed take a listen. the problem. of iran was that overthrew the american puppet. and washington got his feelings hurt and refuses to have diplomatic relations with iran and since that time there's been

a huge change is the neoconservatives that become. very influential their very tightly ally israel. and both won't war with iran and it serves the whole source of their interests and so we now have. a more compliant head of the internet international atomic energy agency much more compliant with american propaganda than his predecessor and so we now have import which doesn't really say anything there's no evidence and there's just some innuendo and washington will spin this innuendo to try to prepare the ground as they did with a rock. for a military attack based on nothing so you're saying of the things that have really changed it is more the attitude and some of the ideas and the policies being

put forth here in washington and not sit in iran. well you know who's around it tracked. the characters are. we ok so you you right up to this point and we certainly heard this mentioned in the report a lot of comparisons between this situation and iraq the case of weapons of mass destruction which laid out the case for war i'm wondering i you know should people believe this report because it's being told to us or do you think there is more evidence and cause for concern here there's no evidence at all the report isn't evidence so the news reports that say these are dismissed for there's no evidence the report there is some sort of innuendo. but that's all there is there's no there's no evidence that iran has in fact the reports yes there's no evidence of any diversion of it in europe or there's some sort of. hype about they're working

on a trigger for a nuclear bomb but everyone knows that rand can. enrich uranium to the extent necessary to make a bomb they've even said they won't even enrich uranium to the stage to use for medical isotopes they're willing to have that done outside the country it's the americans and block that deal so so they're really doing nothing there is have done nothing. and the americans are continuing to try i mean washington who was to create a pretext for a military attack on iran is part of the new conservative agenda it's been a part of the region that for what now more dozen years alone and there are a zillion people who would agree with you and say you know this really is nothing new and it's just another step in this path to war i want to play for you paul something that we are he spoke yesterday with. a policy director for the national

iranian american council and i just wanna play a little bit of that interview and then we'll talk about it. there is no option to stop iran from developing nuclear weapons capability through war you can't knowledge. any military operation against iran could be the supper program that they have in place back a couple years you can't stop a program and what it can certainly do is convince iran to pursue a nuclear weapon our right to throw out the i.a.e.a. and actually make that decision all right so this is a little bit of a different perspective this is someone who is saying you know whether or not this is going on and we should also mention that there was some talk in the report that you know even if it's not iran that iran is getting some outside help but he say it's an obvious saying. well you can't even if this is going on at war is not going to change anything what do you think about that. war would change a lot closer round as

a large country it's probably has more capability. because even. the top of the key will do destructing all flows from the strait of hormuz and we don't know what the reaction of other countries would be you know if we were to see that this is another hoax another hoax excuse by the americans to go to another war then support for the united states will dry up i mean i mean it's already drying up and the spin masters in washington or pushing it i mean who is going to believe this what him what has washington said in the last ten or twelve years that was true. well i think a lot of people were they that have a valid point to an extent but what i want to talk about china there are some who are sorry that the u.s. wants to isolate iran to put a damper on its economic relations with china and also on the other side of this

will not forget china relies pretty heavily on iran it's the country's third largest oil supplier so what do you think is the role of china in all of us. well learned as you know back before the story of the attack in libya that what the united states is doing to china is what they did to japan in twenty's and thirty's they want to become a parent off of oil and rubber and very strong materials and they're trying now to take away china's access to energy sources that's the american plan for. remaining the dominant power in boxing insurance so just as they went into libya this large channa from their well investment as you know it washington is now in africa for the same reason that i mean other parts of

africa or china has all investments then that's also part of the reason for wrecking iran but that's the only one of the reason paula is that we're out of time i'm so sorry thanks so much for weighing in though former reagan administration official and columnist paul craig roberts all right so as you just heard the western powers are starting to be posed drums of war against iran this after speculation the country may have the ability to create a nuclear weapon but it seems the u.s. politicians aren't just using these fear mongering tactics against iran but the region as a whole and according to palmer cia agent michael scheuer americans are in the crosshairs of terrorists worldwide because of washington's policies in the white muslim world not because they hate freedom and democracy. washington's enemy is an enemy that doesn't exist we're fighting and the sonic enemy that washington

believes is out to kill us because we have elections because we are free because we have women in the workplace is an enemy that doesn't exist that didn't exist when bin laden was alive it doesn't exist now america is being attacked because of its foreign policy in the muslim world because of its support for israel because of its support for the saudi police state because of its presence on the arab peninsula and until we accept that until americans can say to each other whether you support aid to israel or not our relationship with israel is causing this war we are not going to be able to defeat this enemy and israel itself as a country is not the problem the real problem marge is the leaders of the jewish american community in the united states who influence and corrupt our congress to support israel when we have no interests there and the the american political establishment is caught between two things they're extremely puk pro israel and they're almost marxist in their belief that democracy in the spread of democracy is

inevitable in all places in all peoples at all times and so they need to protect the israelis but they can't say what is a reality for example there is not going to be the macro see in tunisia or or or or libya or egypt that in any way resembles democracy in the last and yet what they've done is create anarchy they've created a situation where the only beneficiaries are the islamists. the guns that have flown out of egypt out of tunisia out of libya to the islamists have been enormous in their value and the prisons that were opened and egypt tunisia and libya have reinforced the islamist groups across the world so there are mindless there mindless pursuit of secular democracy at the end of the day endangers the stability of the region and probably the whole world the truth is american and western foreign policy interests in the middle east have depended for fifty years on the

maintenance of tyranny tyranny that pregame us access to oil tyranny that protected israel and i know in the last twenty years tyrannies that persecuted islamists to protect us all of that is going by the wayside and the israelis credit these railways are the only ones who have stood up and said democracy may not be very good for our security and they couldn't be more correct and it was written is real attacks around the americans will get blamed for condoning it whether we did or not so i think what we're seeing is a slow almost inexorable ed vance toward some kind of a conflict with with iran. that was former cia agent michael scheuer and see artie's entire exclusive interview with him you can head to our web site it's r t dot com. well today is international day against into semitism and fascism by the recognize across europe remember one thousand nine hundred thirty eight was the day the nazis began their program against the jews setting synagogues on fire and

vandalizing stores and businesses owned by the jews many see this as the symbolic start of the holocaust and we wanted to take today to look deeper into a new study published by the anti-defamation league that examines american attitudes toward jews in this country there were many facets of this but one of the most significant things i found is that anti semitic attitudes have increased in the last couple of years with about fifteen percent of americans falling into the most anti semitic cohort now out of those people those fifteen percent there are some interesting attitudes about the power of jews in america this bar graph taken from the report shows that seventy eight percent of that group think jews have too much power in business sixty seven percent think jews have too much power in the u.s. overall and seventy one percent think jewish people control wall street well just a short time ago i spoke to the national director of the n.c. defamation league abraham foxman he was in our studio in new york and i asked him

to respond to these figures as well as the implications overall of the report. yes i think every time there's economic instability or social instability anytime people are unhappy anxious about their president future they look for scapegoats and jews have been a convenient scapegoat throughout the ages and money in jews is a convenient stereotype throughout the years and so when we see konami instability when we see anxiety in terms of people's futures they look to blame somebody and jews are going to play throughout the ages i'm wondering though i really want to be careful here and make sure people our viewers know that for this survey which i believe was conducted a few weeks ago. seventeen hundred plus people were answered questions for the survey so despite the fact that you know that's how polling works we want to be

really careful in saying that those answers automatically translate into the opinions of thirty five million americans i mean how do you deal with those kind of questions. well you know it's it's been polling is not an exact science but it does give you an accurate picture of people's attitudes how they feel again we have developed this index forty years ago the index has been pretty solid in terms not only in the u.s. we've done it in europe we've done did in russia as well and what basically is that if you answer six or seven out of the eleven questions. just saying yes jews are comparable jews killed christ jews are only care about themselves that you know if you cross pride for a duck walks like a duck acts like a duck you're a duck i want to move on to this recent thing that happened this you could call it the my microphone was on and i didn't realize that moment last week in france at

the g. twenty this was a conversation between president obama and the french president nicolas sarkozy sarkozy called the israel prime prime minister benjamin netanyahu a liar and president obama was overheard saying something like oh you know you're fed up with them i have to deal with them every day several g.o.p. candidates have come forward demanding that president obama apologize and i know you've written about this you said that the a.d.l. is extremely disappointed that this is on presidential. i guess expound on on this what do you think the president should do assuming that this is a true statement i'm not honest to me said it you know i think we would all be shocked if the conversations which are private i wonder how they feel about i'm with maz and i want to know how they feel about president bush so you know i that doesn't get us anywhere whether what the president does or doesn't do that's up to him i think it is however you know it's serious question that if those are the attitudes those are the feelings to what extent it influences foreign policy and i

guess the same question can be asked about president and what their personal feelings about president obama are or. or chancellor merkel or sarkozy to understand today and that's a very serious question to which we don't have an answer but we certainly should be concerned we certainly should be concerned but certainly i think you and i might both find it interesting to be a fly on the wall in the conversations of some of these world leaders and i want to ask a quick question though about the a.d.l. i know that our producers here at r.t. had originally hoped to have a debate about the survey sort of see the different sides of that but i know when our producers booked the interview with you with your media people they said that you come on the show but that you wouldn't be willing to debate the position of the eighty eight i just wanted to give you an opportunity to say why i mean isn't debates a good way to forward the conversation. well i'm not sure the great white debate an

anti-semite which was one of the original suggestions. on what to do to defend anti-semitism so i don't understand what debate is we have a survey if you you know. the polling data procedures the techniques are not ours that they're there they're what every polling institution does so i don't not sure what it is that we're going to debate if there are people who say that there is an anti-semite there's i'm that's right you're you can title you can have whoever you want i'm just not about to discuss it with somebody who's i don't think there's anybody seriously doesn't think there's anti-semitism now to what level happy done polls have they studied are the scholars and the people you know there were floated by me i don't fit that category i have no problem sitting in discussing you go through with people who disagree. you know before coming on the air with all due respect no i was not going to debate an anti-semite and some of the names that were brought forward were not in our judgment serious people but i

do you you have the you can go on an hour later and put on whoever you want question and challenge i appear on panels and forums and and debate but i think to debate whether there is or there isn't anti-semitism i'm not sure has any value at all or god with me do you think it's an important discussion to have abraham foxman tourette national director of the anti-defamation league i thank so much for coming on and sharing kind of the takeaway for non-certified. may i just say something i think the very fact that our te focused on the university of seven hundred seventy third anniversary of cristela to take the subject and to look at it and to examine it is something very much appreciated and just indicates a sense of history and perspective that you have and for that thank you very much. so i. here on our team it's the architecture of fear from barriers to fences even

voller post nine eleven fears of americans clamping down in a very public manner so are all of these overt security tactics really taking the country in a safer. way to the police corruption. test that nobody seems to know. that never appropriate the face but hardly argument that they're being overly dramatic.

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what drives the world would be great news by politicians who makes decisions that would create through get through it if it made who can you trust no one who is in view with the global machinery to see where are we heading state controlled capitalism is called sakshi when nobody dares to ask so we do our tea question more. welcome back well here in washington it seems architecture is being shaped by post nine eleven fears from bomb proof glass to constant surveillance to physical barriers and obviously curity is top priority here but who

do these measures really protect our to correspondent liz wahl takes a look at the changing landscape in washington and that who is really being protected and who is not by these intense security measures. it's important that we remain vigilant in our efforts to defeat terrorists enemies and protect the american people. this however it has changed the landscape of america's capital this street leading to the white house was months hoping to motorists now let's block by barriers and dollars i guess it's sort of makes it seem more important you know a lot to run a car into. the supreme court a marvel masterpiece polaroids now mind it's and turns the same site around the capitol you're guaranteed to find bollards just like these surrounding just about every high profile government building what architects calls a bowler and envy where these sounds don't simply service protection but as

a symbol of bureaucratic status what worries me is the a lot we are having certain buildings. and other buildings that. would hold points out that nine eleven attack and twin towers and the american people not a federal building he questions the priority to protect a special few and sort of the public. under a terrorist threat which we know. all of us. who were trained. and it really doesn't make a lot of sense that we all are represented. building but some say they're willing to sacrifice a statics for safety i think it's the reality of the world we live in l.a. post nine eleven the safety precautions that. you know we have to take others say the structures are a reminder that fateful day reminds me of nine eleven and all the security structures that were up around the city at that time that hold the worries of the

nation's iconic and historic buildings are turning into eyesores but it doesn't have to go down hill. new buildings bill will. you. he will be using was. a. really good voices but the workload said it was like these bullard like verrier is disguised as flower pots. but for now these structures however unsightly will remain a permanent fixture in any city fixated on security and bureaucratic status in washington liz wahl r.t. and that's going to do it for now but for more on the stories we cover but our team dot com slash usa check out our youtube page youtube dot com slash r t america so also follow me on twitter i'm at christine i'll be right back here a half hour.