could be a safe haven in twenty twelve in the midst of global and if they find out more with me in the business bullets and influencing the. news live from moscow this is artsy with me rule research showing the tension between the u.s. and iran is being ratcheted up on what seems to be a daily basis in the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton added fuel to the fire calling tehran's recent threats to close a vital oil transit route in the gulf a provocation he's gonna you can look at whether words could soon become action. the cold run of tension between iran and the west is simmering. seems the slightest increase of heat could make it boil over into an all out confrontation. where we'll be that boiling point the point of no return we're getting closer and closer to war

with iran the iranians are playing with fire problems in a crisis if you get where any small thing can really set it off and it doesn't quite washington that the international nuclear watchdog these i'm sorry closely monitoring iran's nuclear activities are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon no but we know that they're trying to develop a nuclear capability and that's what concerns us and our red line to iran is do not develop a nuclear weapon iran's main source of livelihood its oil exports is in danger the u.s. is imposing fresh sanctions that will dramatically complicate transactions the iran's central bank iran is also close to losing europe as a customer the reason that this is happening is that this is the logical conclusion of our current strategy against iran we have sanctions in place with no diplomacy the only way that that and is through confrontation cornered by crippling sanctions iran's threatening to block the strait of hormuz a vital artery through which

a sixth of the world's oil is should the u.s. replied by moving its fiercely to the region and saying if iran goes for it they will attack experts say the policy of isolating iran may lead to other threats from tehran moment by the possibility that one day they will go through with their threats but washington signals that it's ready or it wants everybody to believe that it's ready could weigh up we had to without using nuclear weapons ourselves take out their their nuclear capability well i certainly want them to believe that that's the case well is that i absolutely want them to believe that that's the thing that secretary would you add anything to that number lead. it's just a war of words and neither sign for an all out conflict entering what it is that it will hold frankly speaking this tension is artificial it doesn't have to happen it doesn't need to exist the iranians would do themselves an enormous favor by saying

less. and we would do ourselves a favor by ignoring most of it all of this i was sadly i think is connected to israel and the israeli fear of iran for rhetorical reasons more than military ones it may be a war of words but actions are already showing thousands of u.s. troops are being deployed to israel an american citizen has been sentenced to death in the rand convicted of espionage iran might feel cornered and therefore make drastic moves right now it's in a war of words but one bullet shot and the powder keg can blow up the question is what's going to provide that deadly spark i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. well iran blaming america and israel for the assassination of a nuclear scientist and terror on on wednesday has further antagonize the delicate situation columnist and veteran a war correspondent eric margolis believes tehran is willing to retaliate but is

being cautious for the time being. it's either israel did the killing or murder and the united states certainly didn't condemn israel for doing it and it's true it's a major financial supporter of israel i'm surprised that in fact it's a tax not inflated bringing in retaliation against these suspects. certainly and international crime. and this issue has not been raised on security council which it should be retaliation could be directed against this really were american scientific personality. i think. just very anxious to get them but be cautious now because it seems not so far away in the gulf. and there are growing threats

against. it with r.t. it's good to have your help today still to come in the program of the occupy wall street movement we're claim is a prime piece all real estate two months soft occupy is what vick did from new york's zuccotti park it's now the police. say human rights are at risk and israel has several controversial bills to put in front of lawmakers including one that was criticism. the first foreign journalist has been killed in syria french t.v. camera and at least eight civilians as well died when they were hit by a mortar shell in the city of homs state television blaming terrorists for the attack meaning the opposition groups which it blames for instigating the violence this came just after president bashar al assad told supporters and of massacres he's aiming to prevent a civil war and once again accused foreign powers of sponsoring the odd rest and

independent news out of james corbett says the syrian leader may have a point. it's important to understand that when he speaks of this conspiracy that he's going to strike down and these foreign terrorists who are invading his country that this is in fact not something that's open to debate it was actually revealed in documents that were leaked from the u.s. state department last april that prove beyond a shadow of doubt that the u.s. state department has pumped in at least six million dollars secretly on covertly into syrian opposition groups since two thousand and six the arab league mission there is is pretty much pre-ordained no matter what the mission itself comes out with if there is even one dissenting voice the one dissenting voice will be given all of the media attention so it's a question of which way the the powers that be have decided this is going to go in unfortunately it looks like it's going to stack up in the in favor of military intervention once again and a professor of international relations mark almond says even those opposing us

still prefer him to the idea of foreign intervention and the risk of more bloodshed . the problem for president assad is that the main centers of resistance to him are based around the borders and that also however is a sign of the limitations on the support for an armed insurrection against him that it really depends upon getting money weapons and personnel across the border from lebanon turkey and to some extent from truth so we have a kind of standoff president assad has a lot of support the armed opposition has support we don't really know what ordinary people think but i think one of the themes of president assad is trying to do is to say do you want to see debian style civil war chaos or would you see the sort of happened in iraq a few years ago and that's quite a powerful argument for people not necessary to be diehard supporters and certainly not to want to see themselves die in a brutal civil conflict that could spiral out of control and we spoke exclusively

about syria with professor of middle east politics dr jeremy salt he says the scale of the opposition movement may be seriously overblown and full version of the interview are coming your way next hour here on r.t. but for now a preview. we had a very very dangerous situation in syria which could have exploded into a very very nasty. proto breakdown in the country and could lead to regional war in this country let's see if you give me a few months and see how the prices work for. a base of support. i don't think you can say that the party would be doomed the moment they call free elections. this is arts he protests have marked ten years since the first prisoners were sent to america's most controversial person. barack obama's promise on his first day in

office was to close it and the promise remains unfulfilled that it never rang more hollow than just last month when he signed a new law allowing to be indefinite detention of terrorist suspects more details on this artist laura smith reports one zero zero one zero zero zero i don't know i am not free to me today is probably just another day for the inmates of guantanamo bay they may not even know that people around the world are campaigning for them but as far afield as london demonstrations are held to demand the release of the hundred and seventy one men still held without trial in the cuban camp after ten years one of those men. whose dubious distinction of being the last british resident held in guantanamo he was in afghanistan or nine eleven he says doing charity work digging wells and building a girls' school in kabul. when the u.s.

invasion began almost went into hiding from an increasingly wary northern alliance but his freedom didn't last shot because supporters maintain he was sold for a bounty went into the hands of the northern alliance who were warlords basically and he actually thought all the americans that my goodness it will save me from the torture that he's had months of torture by them but no he was transported to and buried he has remains despite president obama's original election pledge to close guantanamo altogether despite being cleared for really. and despite being a legal permanent resident in the u.k. with family. which includes one son he's never even seen and fought for moving closer to being freed shuckers supporters see worrying developments in the us is attitude to extradite detention obama recently signed the national defense

authorization act which places domestic terror investigations into the hands of the military and extends a ban on transferring prisoners out of. t.v. president obama for reasons. lack of political will or he would say complete inability to live. up to that promise and indeed he is now basing took american citizens into trials in military commissions which are very far from being fair trials with. the british government has requested the release of but there's been no movement on the case since two thousand and seven meanwhile as his family grows up without him he lives out his life in a tiny windowless not knowing whether he can expect to be released. ten year anniversary has drawn human rights activists in other countries to

demonstrate as well international protesters near the statue of liberty in paris another twenty of the famous mourning meant in new york hundreds of them on the closure of guantanamo bay on the streets of various cities across the u.s. but investigative journalist. told us the majority of the public in america turns to ignore an issue that stains their country's reputation. it's very sad that the public more or less this tune guantanamo out has tuned out. widespread human rights abuses that continue to take place in guantanamo. it is an issue and abuse that we can get other government support however what's happening now is that we have come to accept indefinite detention i think that people are willing to accept it now it doesn't affect them let's face it they look at this as an issue

that they do not need to be concerned about because they still see the majority of people there as terrorists even though we have seen evidence surface over the years that the vast majority were in fact innocent. parties coming to you live from moscow don't forget plenty more on our website at www dot com let's have a look right now and see some of the items are standing by for us for example a lot of publishing his campaign with promises on a brand new website as the race for the top job in russia gathers steam dot com is that a guide you through it all. and breaking through the ice a russian tanker is on an unprecedented mission to deliver a lifeline to people in an alaskan city cut off by severe winter conditions.

a quarter past the hour here in moscow protesters are back in new york's zuccotti park the symbolic birthplace of the anti wall street movement where it all started a now almost four months ago barricades have been in place since mid november when the occupiers were evicted in a night raid by police but now that the barriers are gone the protesters are back in determined to stay and start to use anastasio reports the mood certainly is very very optimistic people seem very really energized they're excited to have been able to get back into the park the worst place of occupy wall street. everything's been yes and it's really looks like a lot of the skeptics were hoping that after the occupiers were kicked out of the park in mid november that would be the end of occupy wall street but certainly that has not been the case and the occupiers the protesters themselves believe this and they see this is a new chapter really for the food movement that has now become nationwide over the

last several months you can't just barricade people out and you can't say that this park will either be used by no one or only by people that live in this area should be open to everyone and so i think that it's important in so far as you come here and gather as we move into this bring it it gets warmer i think that this will return to being the movement even when the barricades are still there we were always here representing i mean sometimes you only see it up in the front but it's we've always been here one of the main rules the new rules for the occupy wall street movement here in new york city is that they cannot have tents or sleeping bags back into the park and that was of course a large part of them being able to stay out there for months and protest and demonstrate and essentially bring attention to their movement these days that's something that's not allowed they can't technically sleep there but that's certainly something they can't really do and that really impacts a number of people there today and in the days to follow because not many people are you know able to sleep standing up you know it's very important that critics

this entire time were saying no way will occupy wall street be able to last until the summer they were really hoping that after the invasion the protesters would not come back but people have been gathering not necessarily in this park but in other locations indoors and they continue certainly to do so with this place kind of returning as the main headquarters for the occupiers here in new york city right before the business with. the world update here and some other international headlines and very heavy rains and floods in brazil state of rio de janeiro have left at least twenty eight people dead five members of one family died in a single landslide thousands evacuated from their homes off to being me they're now being sheltered this in schools and that with relatives a year ago more than one thousand three hundred died all went missing because of floods and exactly the same mountainous region. spain's fallen mint has approved the new conservative government's first austerity measures aimed at

tackling the country's swollen deficit the package calls for almost nine billion euro in spending cuts including income and property tax hikes spain is battling to avert being dragged further into a debt crisis that has already forced greece ireland and portugal all of them to seek financial bailouts. while i say you members do move forward with austerity measures the kaiser report highlights the on balance of the global economy here's a quick preview of what max and stacy have to say coming your way now in about thirteen minutes time. these are losses that are on the books off the balance sheets of the books that now after they got the government to impose the first round of bailouts and then impose austerity measures to pay for the bailouts they're now going to reveal the next trough of debt now and this is revealed then the release also more austerity measures and then there reveal more losses so it's a death by

a thousand revelations. do stay with us for the kaiser report in just a few minutes but the chorus of critics is growing in israel all of us against the so-called boycott law it punishes anyone who speaks out against the country's settlement construction in the west bank human rights activists of turn to the supreme court to overturn the legislation but as artie's paula reports there's a whole range of other controversial bills all of them waiting for cabinet approval as well. gershon baskin is a wanted man in israel for his outspoken views against the government's policy of settlement expansion it's ironic because if it wasn't for those left wing israeli activists it's dark for israel would have secured a recent prisoner swap that's always way the soldier gilad shalit exchanged for palestinian prisoners after five years in captivity gershon says it was his

contacts within him us that allowed the two sides to reach an agreement but now a controversial so-called boycott threatens to find the post war hero if he steps out of line the appeal to the public is an arab appeal and there is a competition of who is more strongly advocating a position which is a very arab what the law says is that any israeli could face legal action just for speaking out in favor of boycotting settlements the first steps to fascism are quiet so. i i hope that the supreme court gives us a loud screaming telling us that fascism shouldn't pass but for now the supreme court is keeping quiet the state attorney again this month asked for more time to consider the arguments angering gabion who team who filed a petition to another law the morning after it was passed in parliament until the court rules otherwise israeli owners of companies based in the settlements can seek

damages for boycotts called against the goods i don't accept any boycott not by the book or not right not left boycott the boycott law is one of several controversial pieces of legislation being advanced by the netanyahu government a number of similarly criticized bulls are currently under discussion in the israeli parliament another bill aims to dramatically limit foreign funding of nongovernmental groups critical of israel it's expected to receive cabinet approval soon this is a very conservative right wing coalition they have a solid majority in parliament bird. still they sort of promote these bills which which are perceived not only by the left but by the press by the courts . is not encouraging democracy ok or sort of limiting free speech in israel many here think it's a way for the right wing coalition government of prime minister netanyahu to stay in power but for people like gershon baskin he says he'll continue to call for

boycott of the settlements and far from censoring him the law has only strengthened his resolve to stop israel's growing onslaught and democracy policy r.t. tel aviv. our let's get to the early part of that data becomes quite. a low thank you very welcome to the business program is a new year for the stock market leading players but it starts off with a lot of the same old problems financial uncertainty and debt issues continue to weigh heavily on the main global economy as nicolay pardew saw from the capital says a financial aid russia is well placed and ready to face the challenges of twenty two. russia is. where it will position. in terms of sustainability to start all shops and this is mainly because a lot of the above is significant achievement over the exchange rate for the city.

center of india the region to souls into heaven i think that the e.u. would mean kids so if. global market deterioration we want to be free since this should be the lead up to the cells and data so isn't one in the russian economy as ever since the central bank pays more attention to interest rate would see the stamp or returns to keeper is within its interest rate corridor or another big family for themselves and twelve is very good but the potential leader is a chanel for the local morning market for foreign investors and there this is also one of the most interesting the way as soon as she could take place and their action for a national market. moving in the markets then all fast there's been a rise from the lowest settlement in almost two weeks triggered by concerns that a strike in nigeria and threats of more sanctions against iran's nuclear program. could surprise european stock markets. and investors are awaiting debt

auctions in spain obviously as well as the european central bank losing the bulls and john this economy of course the biggest in the contraction in the fourth quarter is also keeping investors on gas on here in moscow the markets have a gains or losses by theology as m i six in the block by a vote want to send its ok let's have a look at some individual chevy's and on the mindsets energy mages are on the rise is our guest monopoly gazprom is up over a percent and announce plans to spend five point seven billion dollars almost all she had impacts on the old company blue collar is gaining point four percent that and called mica after the loss is among the main windows for the second day along that. but some reports around this reynolds. plans to increase the russian commented to fifty percent in the first quarter of this year. saw from the right

five and thomas zero expects the stocks to grow in the first hour of the show. overall we are quite positive from the second on the first quarter and on the first half of the year at all i would say these goals that meet contrary to the overall consensus in the market which suggest that first half of you will be more or less difficult while the second one will be more positive with the first and we think that situation with the european debt would not affect that much on the back which is market is did last year so we see some improvements and we think that we're close to the bottom of this it's in middle of the crises itself but the influence on the equities markets because of european problems. and in other news russia's economy has seen some shift from speculative capital to foreign direct investments last year the country has seen eighty four point two billion dollars of capital outflow that's the biggest in three years unless i invest as with taking out my

money from risky markets like russia due to financial uncertainty around the globe meanwhile foreign direct investment was twenty eight percent to forty eight point five billion dollars. the russian market still call sells jumped to nine percent in two thousand and eleven the association of european businesses says they reached over to know hoffman investors was much higher than full cost however it still hasn't managed to get back to pre-crisis levels may be expects the market to grow at a slower pace a shift amid worldwide economic. russia's second largest still make a service dollars pumping to build a new knowledge of the republic of china dot and tobago in order to improve the efficiency of its american assets the budget is was six hundred million dollars with the company attracting local state and private commercial partners the float will supply cheaper woman to the service stalls and supplies in north america.

finally the russian cinema industry has got a present for the new year locally produced movies outperformed foreign ones at the box office over the nationwide winter break the magazine because bulletin it says russian films generated forty seven million dollars fifty four percent of the total box office was a surprise given that the total share of local movies for the whole of two thousand and eleven was around thirteen percent of the bottom market the top grossing film will see the four months that some kinds a game shot i. thought she for me today my colleague daniel bush oh he'll be back here in about fifty five minutes with more business news.

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very warm welcome to you this is our. time for your headlines at the crisis in relations between washington and tehran by the assassination of a full iranian scientist this number for inside two years iran blames israel and america for the plot but says it will not do rail the country's nuclear program. the first foreign journalist killed in syria's on rest. was mortally wounded by a grenade along with at least eight locals the country's wealth already is blamed.