for fifty two years ties between tel aviv and tehran off a bit in but it's never stopped menasha amir from reading the news in farsi every night and hosting a weekly show for listeners in the persian world to share the views he thinks around a million rain ians tune in and the topic they most want to talk about the possibility of a foreign attack on iran and they are very much afraid that the iranian nuclear installations will be bombed by a foreign powers where they're israel or the united states or any other country but it's not only the rain ians who are suspicious of israel or america taking action people here in israel since something's in the air you can see signs of wink and nod from israeli officials when talking about it israel is signaling to the world. if the world doesn't do anything if the wall doesn't call for more fierce actions for more crippling sanctions quoting the secretary of state clinton then israel

would take the initiative and strike along some wonder if israel hasn't already declared an unofficial war on terror and what suspicions raced further after the assassination of another iranian nuclear scientist earlier this month while on his way to work putting everything together it is clear that whoever it is but if someone or somebody or some agency is very successful in infiltrating understanding and last subaltern the iranian nuclear project. the attack is the latest in a series of mysterious accidents linked to iran's nuclear program two aircraft accidents in the space of three years scientists disappearing equipment damaged and computer viruses unleashed and the fingers pointing at israel. this is a very. respectable grammar notion but. iran has many a name is. in mind and it's not beyond

imagination adding fuel to the fire the plan for israel and the united states to conduct their biggest joint military drill before the end of the year it would see thousands of american troops deployed in israel for iran it's the most blatant sign that an attacks coming but no one in israel will come on record and say there is a covert war on iran all talk of an israeli strike is limited to the airwaves policia r.t. jerusalem. just now turning twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow still to come for you in the program here on r.t. scotland pushes ahead for its quest for independence but london of ours to make any split from the u.k. a costly move for the modern day bravehearts wanting to go it alone. the u.s. congress has recalled two controversial and piracy bills this week after a massive internet blackout and hacker attacks on government websites millions of

net users and web giants such as wicked pedia joined together to stand against the proposed legislation dubbed supper and paper if passed the laws would have allowed top media conglomerates and copyright holders to shut down large portions of the web at the same time the anonymous hacker group was retaliating against the shut down of file sharing site upload and claim to have brought down the websites of the f.b.i. and the white house barrett brown who worked with anonymous on various operations believes the mega upload shutdown shows that the government will act even without these laws in place the problem is that the track record of the us and all governments. giving them power to do one thing use almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of giving them power. so in the way that you know this that the raid on megaupload cards in this opens it shows that even without soap or already in place

here they are already arresting and resting the owners and shutting it down and in the future. there will be a number of other groups that were using more. military not goods and situation it's worse in the grass and smells of war and the notable civil war. and over a million people visited our web site r.t. dot com for more on sopa and pipa do join the masses let us know your opinion on the two controversial bills take a look at what else is available while you're there at r.t. talk. egyptian activists have been urging nationwide street protests saying the revolution is not over and the country is on a long way and is a long way from becoming democratic they want the downfall of egypt's supremes council of the armed forces and the handover of power to the newly elected parliament saturday's election results for the first post mubarak parliamentary

vote so islamist parties capture an overwhelming majority of seventy five percent the new assembly is due to sit for the first time on monday yet off a lap in a reporter at the jerusalem post says the new egypt will be a much tougher political partner for the west people have called for democracy in egypt this is the result when people call for democracy may not always of realizing that the electorate has a very different vision of how they would like their society is run then in other places such as western europe we have islamist hardline parties coming to power and it's going to be an earthquake for both egypt and for the region the muslim brotherhood has been preparing for this moment for decades they have a very thought out detailed agenda for how they wish egypt to look like and it's a very different egypt from what we've known until now it's going to be a much more religious conservative place and much more hostile to the west. you

with r t live from moscow the battle over scotland's possible split from great britain is dividing opinion in an increasingly united kingdom scots of been told they can hold a referendum on independence but only on the government's terms and london says a divorce would come at a price artie's laura smith reports. britain a three hundred year old union that once ruled the waves and tossed the known world but on home soil the country's closer than ever to a messy divorce. this is the man who want scotland to go it alone nationalist party leader alex salmond's promising scots will get a say on being single but london wants to call the shots and get it done and dusted . they don't want to talk about the substance i sometimes feel when i listen to

them it's not a referendum they want it's a never and i'm question their travel debate and that's keep our country together but why would scotland want to separate itself from a britain that still among the world's richest economies scotland always retained its own distinct national identity and the s.n.p. feels it's almost time to take that one step further and hope a yes vote from the scottish people would mean scotland would gain control over its own north sea oil and gas and represent itself on the international stage but it doesn't want to hold a referendum until two thousand and fourteen and that delay is letting london ramp up the scare stories telling scotland it'll have to pay the price such as the billions of pounds british taxpayers spent keeping scottish banks alive that it would have to find its own currency and lose thousands of jobs when the navy head south not that it seems to bother scots who see their country as having been

strangled for long enough i don't think it's any of his business that we present a strong enough case to be independent then i don't see that he can argue against that because if shocked i think a shutter i don't think you have an easy the fires of. scots have never taken kindly to hearings stay. and words from the mother of all parliaments down in london but for the nationalists it's a boost to the lack luster thirty percent support for a split mr cameron feels he had the initiative but it's completely but viable he's actually been the best recruiting sergeant the s.n.p. i think is a certainly says margaret thatcher. in the last seven days with over a thousand members. saying up to now the u.k. and scotland's key players will continue to cross swords at stake but alex salmond is a reputation built on restoring

a proud scotland for prime minister cameron has the potential to become the man who let the united kingdom come apart laura smith r.t. edinburgh. we are coming to you live from the heart of moscow more news to come your way in just about two minutes time see that.

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the world from the. sun it's technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we've got the future covered. if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to you this is a lie from moscow arab league officials say their observer mission in syria that expired this week will be extended for an extra month and the number of monitors will also be increased despite criticism from the syrian opposition which wants to see the u.n. step. croatia is voting on whether the country should join the e.u. the issue will respond to protests and body clashes the blog continues to be shaken

by anti austerity rallies with people now in romania rising up against their government. and other stories that shape this week tensions around tehran's nuclear program stood further by e.u. plans to impose an embargo on iranian oil and the u.s. is building its warships presence in the region. and the power of the internet in action a massive online backlash over u.s. plans to expand a weapon or ship it all leads to the suspension of pending anti-piracy in the us. now when it comes to big money in america's politics so the people who know exactly how it works jack abramoff used to be one you know tells us why he thinks washington is corrupt to the core you watching arts. i.

am sitting down with jack abraham off once the most powerful lobbyist in washington referred to as the man who bought washington he brought government officials in order to gain political support for his clients in two thousand and six he was convicted of raping office clients jack abramoff served three and a half years in prison guilty of conspiracy fraud and tax evasion mr abrams thank you very much for coming since your release from jail you've been very vocal about corruption in washington i read your book and i got a sense of your frustration about the fact that while you were sent to jail people involved in the same corrupt practices are sitting pretty in their offices on capitol hill well i'm a mom is frustrated that people didn't go to jail or prison and prison is not fun and i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy but i guess what i'm frustrated about is that when they had my hearings and trials and when i was sent off there was

a big exclamation and celebration here that they cleaned up washington but in fact they didn't clean up washington and so when i came out you have to rethinking my life and what i was involved in decided that they want to clean up washington and i would help them figure out exactly how to do it during that senate hearing when you were publicly bashed by the senate is what were you thinking what were your thoughts as you faced the distinguished panel well i probably was thinking they were a little less distinguished than others were thinking i was reminded continually by every word out of their mental that they were among the many who participated in some of the corruption that they were accusing me of when one of the senators a senator campbell was accusing me of corruption in wrecking the democratic system i was thinking back to the breakfast. i had with him a couple years before where i handed him checks from my clients as contributions

and he said that they would never have a problem with his committee so i was thinking that basically about each of them i didn't know a lot of them personally because i had people working for me had a staff of about forty lobbyists and some of them knew the people who work for me but. i found the whole thing to be hypocritical it was a kangaroo court and it was a show people say you were a tory it seems your ability to buy members of congress how did you do that i don't think i was necessarily except on the margins much different than most of what goes on here but what happens here and what's on portion in which what i did in terms of pushing over the lines even of this activity is lobbyists and people want something from congress raise money for congressmen give money to congressmen in terms of political contributions by meals for them take them golfing take them on trips take them to sporting events and i probably did more of it than most did and i pushed

over certain lines that are in the sand and broke the law but it's something that goes on far too often in washington you want to say that and i found it very very interesting that that once you just a moment you offered a job to a congressional staffer you own them right there was no greater control that people could have over congressional offices than to have the head of that office know that they're going to come in a few months to come work for a lobbying firm from that minute on those people are focused on that lobbying from their clients and it's not just me i saw it all over tell me it's not something i bet it it's something i noticed and something that i propose now to get rid of by banning people who work on capitol hill who are members of congress from ever joining the lobbying industry or the influence industry in america what did your clients want by investing in politics by investing in you well mostly my clients one of the federal government not to. get all over the back and tax them and fair. they're businesses most the lobbying is deep that's keeping the government from

doing things to industries and to companies and likely going to help them avoid to the exact date when i've got presented in a bunch of indian tribes and the way i got into it the first representation i had with the tribes was to stop the federal government from putting a thirty percent tax over the gross revenues of their gambling industry what was interesting about your case it was not just politicians who cheated but also you cheated your clients namely those indian tribes with gambling interests who paid humanely and so what i thought was what i did was where we're about to pled guilty to was some of the efforts that we did for the clients in their states worst to stop their competition from taking away their markets they would crush their competition yes we would attack their competition and we would do everything we could to keep them from invading the market of our client and that's normal in america fortunately for better or for worse that's not something we we made up we're going to have any regrets about doing that well at the end of the day i regret using the political process as

a weapon against competitors because at the end of the day i don't think the government should be used like that i didn't have a problem with it then and i shouldn't even if we're talking about millions of dollars in contributions it's still peanuts for any big corporation it's a tiny fraction of what they make did you get a sense of how powerless average americans are when the interest so big guys like that are at stake on capitol hill well americans have a very tough time competing with these special interests special interests come in with a lot of money and you're right it's miniscule amounts of money compared to what they could do and some of them do a lot of money but it's still a small amount the problems the average citizen is not engaged politically and when they're able to bring in money and influence members of congress to vote on things that are not good for the country and not good for the general interest because somebody with the special interests you. pushing on it that's where the problem starts so what i propose in my book and the effort that i've been engaged in since

prison is a way to separate money out of politics here and basically to say that if you're a lobbyist or you're somebody who's trying to get something from the government here you may not give a dollar politically of any kind and that's one of the poor things that i've proposed to clean up the system i think is very important because the end of the day political contributions if i give you something if you're a congressman and i give you a contribution and i want something from you that contribution may not be cold a bribe but it is a broad at the end of the day how many members of congress are involved in corruption like that in bribery like that well i mean ultimately every member of congress who's taking a check a contribution from a lobbyist or from a company or from a union or anyone who needs or get something from washington whether it's conscious or not they're involved in it alternately you can't accept something from somebody without unless you're at it all do well yes absolutely they all do and what i'm

saying is you can't as a human being if somebody gives you something you're going to feel gratitude and even if you don't do with that person once right there you say look you can't buy my vote for two thousand dollars and most of them say that of course but the issue is if you do something nice for me in my heart i'm going to have to fuel a little bit better about you and what i'm saying is that is the moment of the problem if you're a public servant with all the crimes that you committed there's still a sense that you were used as a poster boy a kind of a scapegoat for the corrupt system that is very much alive and kicking i want to ask you about the supreme court decision from almost two years ago that allows on limited campaign contributions lobbyist must be really happy about that decision aren't they some are some are and i think the decision was for the most part very good decision basically said that people shouldn't have the right to get money constricted i don't have a problem with that what i have a problem with a. people who want something back giving money even a dollar that's the difference with with me now corporations the problem with

corporations do you are contradicting yourself you were just talking about how any contribution can be seen as bribery and now you're saying no being able to funnel as much money as you want these perfectly fine in today's politics no i don't think so i think people should have the right to get think i've been fairly consistent i mean not to expect anything in return one on one why should you expect something in return there are a lot of people who give money in this country by the way because they like the ideology of the candidate they like the candidate themselves they're not going in there and asking for a grant or a tax break or a contract most people don't do that but it still contradicts what you were saying a few moments ago and that is with any form of contribution especially a big contribution an elected official finds themselves in a situation when they told their benefactors if somebody is worth a trillion dollars they live in some form in kansas and they never have any contact with any congressman ever and they see some congressman they love him they want to give him a million dollars because they think they're fantastic and they never ask for

a thing from that person i personally think that's all right they have been very hard to track down who asked possibly i've talked i've talked to law enforcement about this about my ideas and once the laws are set in place i think that they are capable of figuring it out that decision only created a further complication in my view in the sense that it brought corporations them as a possible donor to political efforts and again don't you think it effectively legalize this corruption in washington i think corruption is legal in washington right now thousands of people took to the streets across america to say no to jack paper amounts to saying no to politics in washington do you think there is a chance that action like that that awareness like that can change anything i think the occupy wall street movement had behind it some good as things problem is that they didn't organize themselves like the tea party mood. it did which was politically tea party movement had a dramatic impact on the last election and probably will still miss an election and

i've spoken to the occupy people quite a lot and told them that until they get themselves organized politically they're not going to be meaningful because in america street protests don't really meaning that people don't like street protests in america first of all the destructive there's vandalising there's unsanitary things that go on and most americans in repelled by that but what most americans will respect is political activism an organization on the left or on the right now i think that there is anger out there and you don't have a money to hire a lot of. well that might not be a bad thing but. you know american people don't need lobby is they need to organize themselves i think that in america getting into first of all class and b. i think is very dangerous we've seen that every great. tele tarion movement in certainly in the twentieth century started with class and instead of class and be able to focus themselves not on those who succeed but those who choose to succeed

in the sense of using the government and using the state to make their lives easier to make more money and there are plenty of those that get it like like i did like i help my clients do and like every lobbyist helps their clients to importunately had it not being for the jail time which you've been just as we're painting as you are now if i hadn't had the fall if i hadn't had been destroyed i would love to sit here and tell you i would have all my own come to how bad this was and you know i should have been doing and i should have been involved in that kind of lobbying but i'm not going to lie to you i would never thought that i thought i was doing the right thing that's the sad part of it all for me so as i look back i would have stopped i would have still been doing it instead of sitting here with you i'd be sitting on capitol hill negotiating something for one of my clients. took my getting killed for me to come that he'd realisation that i should have been there what do you plan to do. in the process of. possibly one amp with a t.v. show thank you.

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the headlines on r t the arab league officials say their observer mission in syria that expired this week will be extended for an extra month and the number of monitors will also be increased that's despite criticism from the syrian opposition which wants to see the u.n. step in. croatia is voting on whether the country should join the e.u. the issue already spalpeen protests and violent clashes that's as the blog continues to be shaken by anti austerity rallies the people now in romania rising up against their government as well. i did other stories that shaped this week

tensions around tehran's nuclear program stirred further by e.u. plans to impose an embargo on iranian oil and the us are building up its warship presence in the region. and the power of the internet in action a massive online backlash over u.s. plans to expand a web of censorship it will lead to the suspension of pending anti-piracy bills. are to come with the latest action from the world of sport. hello welcome to the sports and here's what's coming up. easy does it rafael nadal and roger federer coached into the quarter finals of the australian open. while different strokes kim clijsters comes back from the brink while caroline wozniacki

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