it is true he has never said that even if he says that what the sixteen words that they quote it is he's not in charge he's not the one who makes the decisions and isn't it interesting that when he says those things they believe him when he says we don't have nuclear bombs we don't believe it so we just selectively cherry pick what we want. that it really should have no look he says listen he says i'm going to write a story or any sense doesn't it and you can evolve why don't you believe every and he later on he wants to wipe out israel which is what for a country that has a tad anybody now we only talk to the mossad heartful nation this kind of rhetoric this kind of rhetoric is not good for israel israel is a very strong country and it doesn't need this bibi netanyahu use of his kind of information i'd rather rick to get reelected he being serious and need now the people in you know i want to transcend like you are going to go and i'm sorry if you think it is interesting to me go ahead john jump in no because what i understood as an obvious lesson obvious why he would

a law i oppose working on nuclear weapons until he has them even a ten year old child can figure that out he obviously wants to destroy asia when he was mayor of toronto and you think that he's lying a lot and you sure of the law do you not me saying for domestic consumption it doesn't you know it just it was very hurtful when i was going to charge of the military you know in charge and you know his predecessor as president also said well why you want to throw my guy and this is what you want to do and when they launch you want to do as well as you go to sleep until they've got them ready you have to be an idiot to fall for that ok. you want to reform if you want to use the propaganda tool if you if you want to use the propaganda to cause threatening remarks about a country learn about it find out more about it you have never been to iran you don't speak farsi you don't even know the cook the safeguard agreement of iran we do not emission you cannot just open your mouth and say whatever you want when you haven't even studied the country isn't that responsible if you go teach a course you don't know how to teach it how can you talk about it if you and other people like you. decide to talk about iran and attacking iran find out more about

it learn study it read about comprehensive health care agreement and i'm forty five pages not only you haven't read it i think many of the republican candidates haven't read it and they keep talking about it they don't even know what they're talking about spend the time to learn and then attack i think that's the best way john do you want one replied another we'll move on may i make the comment jump in there go ahead. well the relation between oil and iran's nuclear program all of this story is out of all of the nuclear program the question is there is a flaw in the arguments of the united states european union and the global community about the iran's nuclear weapons why the pressure on iran at a time when is it in the box stand and north korea also have nuclear

weapons before you put pressure on the air you will have to have even stand that it's not double stand that is before you put pressure on iran then to try to test you and is that to relinquish its nuclear weapons or india or pakistan or north korea so we are talking here about the nuclear program. needs and you clear out of power for electricity generation to be able to say of oil for export about a wise it will be. graded and why an exporter of oil but the iranians are not averse to getting nuclear weapons so the question is if you put pressure on iran put b.c.m. pressure on israel on iran and in the box stand as north and then you can talk ok i think. and to john and i know i hear one of the things i think is really

dangerous here and on both sides ok is the ratcheting up of rhetoric because when put certain politicians in countries say that you know this is a red line when you know if you go over this and i and both sides of the in the revolutionary guards ok are also saying that in iran again i'm going back to you know the ratcheting up of tension here made i think so there's a certain point where we can keep it simmering i'm very dubious about that because there is absolutely no goodwill between the united states and iran we could have a tipping point here in the rhetoric that we hear coming out of western countries and out of iran is extremely dangerous. well i mean it depends how you look at it and if you think about dealings with hitler again it's a good example if the west set red lines and then didn't inforce them according to our station of rhineland and eventually their set a red line they had to defend with poland from a much weaker position than they would have been even a year and a half earlier so when there's a regime you're trying to contain you must not do certain things or does then you take action otherwise you let them do whatever they like and obviously that this is

a recipe for getting stomped so yeah i would prefer to avoid war but there are things worse than war ok i mean mater what countries around planning to invade if we use the hitler example. absolutely there is no comparing iran with hitler it's this honest to the loss of millions of jews who is not is a holocaust and is going to sort of those who are your lawyer this is you have to learn to organise one pro israel again i fear going to quiet so he can least do it is this use of comparison he has been they have been used in israeli government by bibi netanyahu when the individuals like you are with other guest this is wrong this is discrediting all those jews that died in world war two and it's comparing something that is really not comparable he has said negative things about israel and i think going back to what your guest from london said once you go and criticize israel especially the regime then the wrath of the united states will

come upon you with all its tools covert all over it sanctions and that's what the problem is that's what the difference between iran and those other countries are none of them have criticized israel and that's the price you pay now i'm not saying good or bad this is the decision that they don't and government has made that is the price you pay because you get at senate approval of a bill with one hundred to zero how often does that happen and of course it was part of the military bill but at the same time it shows that if you fool around and you criticize israel that's what you get so they have to deal with it and that's what the problem is it going to what you said peter about how much everyone. i mean as you know hard to push john you want to reply matter of saying israel anyway it's a matter of saying they should israel is going to be wiped off the bat that's not criticizing if you don't already know that has denied the holocaust is that he supported terrorist problems or as you know you are liable he was not in charge like that governor and gentlemen gentlemen i have no i don't i'm joking here trying to jump in now ok let me say let me if i can go to you in london one of the things

that's interesting is the i.m.f. is estimated that if the if this oil gambit is played out what the european union wants to do and what iran will do in retaliation or even before is that we could see as a thirty percent oil increase in the price of oil going up and i mean in these troubled times is it really worthwhile to do that when we have the eurozone that is tipping into recession obama's chances of pulling off a reelection if the price of gasoline goes up again i mean isn't this a really playing for playing with fire at a very bad time. no it was not a lot of playing with fire i thought and it was a simple symbolic political decision to stop importing iranian oil it would have no effect on iran on the contrary it will have effect on the global economy as a whole because that rhetoric could skelly it and we saw today that the price of

oil has gone up by one dollar when iran and now says that it will not go into export or into the european union. think very clearly that if there is any escalation or any sign of real escalation i project the price of oil could go to one fifty or one seventy dollars particularly if iran feels that it will be prevented from selling its all in and it tries to block this fleet of water was the price could go one fifty to one seventy dollars and who will be the biggest loser it is doing and i could stay it's because it is the biggest you result of oil it imports twelve to fourteen million barrels a day and the second one the global economy as a whole the global economy is in the area recession the war so decisions since the thirty's any increase significant increases in the oil price will mean that the

global economy will not be able to recover very quickly from the war study a recession it is in now ok john we're almost out of time is it's not worth trying to negotiate with are you just finished with negotiations or should we still give it a try because the iranians say they want to talk still what you think twenty seconds yeah they said they want to talk but they won't stop working on their nuclear program i think it's time we start building nuclear reactors to lessen our dependence on middle eastern oil back obama just cancel a major pipeline from canada that would have helped america develop energy independence here make planned space missions an iranian regime cannot be dealt with except for only right. very interesting discussion thank you very much many thanks my guess a day in ottawa london and in irvine and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are to see you next time and remember cross talk rules. to. start.

iran warns a ban on oil sales to some e.u. countries is still possible amid growing and tehran rhetoric from campaigning u.s. politicians ahead of this year's presidential race. dark clouds of war are looming over the syrian capital with heavy artillery fire heard on the outskirts of government tanks witnessed on the streets. it's back to brussels for leaders as the blog rattled by debt crises seeks to stall spending seatbelts for each member nation. russia's economy comes under scrutiny from russia's prime minister vladimir putin in a latest article backing his presidential bid. it

is in the russian capital you're watching r t with welcome to the program so iran's plans to hold oil exports to some e.u. countries are still alive warns of wrongs while mr that's despite the country's parliament temporarily postponing the debate on a possible cut of crude supplies to iran is aiming to deflect the flow of sanctions adopted by the west that have been targeting the country's oil industry by implementing the measures the u.s. and the european union are seeking to bring in and to iran's alleged nuclear weapons program meanwhile a high profile group of i inspect there is have begun their three day mission to examine iran's nuclear activities to iran says the talks with the u.n. atomic body officials for. on such a level and more than three years will prove its nuclear ambitions are peaceful professor side mohammad marandi from the university of tehran says that i visit

will not change the west hardline approach towards iran. a currently has full time monitors in iran and this is something that we rarely hear in the western media we have cameras in all of iraq. so therefore there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that iran's nuclear program is anything but peaceful and. has no evidence on this the iranians are not very optimistic about the i.a.e.a. because it is heavily influenced by western countries it's not a democratic body most of the members on the board are european and north american they don't represent the international community at all and he had to be a is he owes his job to the united states if you look at the wiki leaks documents. when america beats the drums of war over iran it be not always be driven by the islamic states nuclear intentions would be u.s. presidential candidates aren't shy when it comes to voicing their anti-rock

rhetoric in front of america's influential jewish community are he's worried important explains. america almost never misses an opportunity to praise its ally ironclad commitment and i mean ironclad to israel's security has meant the closest military cooperation between our two countries in history both going to the proverbial punch at its greatest adversary but there will be no doubt. america is determined to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon and i will take no options off the table. however for many american jews in israel supporting the iraq obama's a war of words against the wrong doesn't go far no sign of the simply state i'm committed to israel's security you have to promote policies that commit you to show that you're serious about his security israel through these actions feels that obama is not committed to doing everything this power to stop iran from having

nuclear weapons iran is a in this an existential threat to israel and obama should be saying. so publicly that he will support israel in whatever military action they stay necessary more inclined is president of the zionist organization of america he says an unprecedented amount of american jews and israelis share his animosity a feeling arguably underscored by the israeli government according to published reports tell of eve would only give washington twelve hours notice if deciding to strike iran i believe his policies are among the most hostile israel's ever experienced of any president in my lifetime recently it was the life of president obama being threatened in a column written by the owner of the atlanta jewish times in an article titled what would you do andrew adler listed the assassination of obama as one way to ensure israel's security he wrote in part give the go ahead for u.s.

based massada agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to israel in order for the current vice president to take his place and forcefully dictate that the united states' policy includes helping the jewish state obliterate its enemies i think that threat. either. or we are going to kill you either politically or literally i think that. our experience of the american president and money. is the largest. group in the united states it is the kingmaker in. the american israel public affairs committee known as a pac declined our request for an interview meanwhile obama finds himself facing another election and a slew of republican opponents banging on much louder war drum against iran with

regards to iran which perhaps represents the greatest exist central threat to israel we have to make it abundantly clear it is unacceptable that i take those that word carefully is unacceptable for iran to become a nuclear nation if rick santorum and when rick santorum is president iran will not get a nuclear weapon because the world as we know it will be no more clear i want to have israel i'm very close to netanyahu i would have said publicly that i would rather plan a joint operation conventionally than push the israelis to a point where the nuclear. at a time when the u.s. bears the burden of a broken economy growing social unrest and ongoing military conflicts starting a war with iran would not be in america's best interest but in order to keep a best friend many believe president obama will be forced to put israel's national security first going up or nile r.t. new york. director of the center for research on globalization and michele just

says what we are witnessing now is part of our larger u.s. plan for war against iran what we are witnessing is is a build up. of military confrontation besides and this goes to you in some regards the staging of of of a military agenda and i should mention that we have a massive deployment of u.s. military hardware troops going into israel also going to. you know naval forces in the persian gulf in the arabian sea. in other words i think what we're going to states wants. to be doing is out of the eyes is some kind of a green light which will give a human face the world will we. syrians troops backed by tanks have reportedly launched an offensive on the outskirts of damascus in order

to regain control over the area activists suggest over sixty people have been killed in the latest fighting just over a day after the arab league mission was frozen artists are first reports from the syrian capital. the sense really from moscow that this decision to hold the mission was going to inflame an already very volatile situation and unfortunately as seems to be exactly what we've seen happening here now foreign minister sergei lavrov was speaking today on his tour of the age of pacific countries and he said that he didn't understand why such a useful tool had been treated in this way because we've seen the observer mission start and eventually grounds to hold they never really recovered after that decision last week so the goal states when they withdrew their monitors now their decision they said was because they felt the mission had failed to hold the syrian government to its pledge to end the violence and it was a surprising decision that's how the foreign minister described it because at

exactly the same time that the gulf states made that decision the decision would also be made to extend the mission so just out of a very very crucial time with the situation in the country rather than making this mission stronger rather than trying to make it more effective if you have the gold states withdrawing them bonuses now he said that that aroused questions we saw the meeting coming up on tuesday where the as easy going to be presenting the findings essentially briefing the u.n. and most gays maimed remains very very adamant that is not going to back any plan that's going to leave the door open to foreign military intervention in fact again their response to western cool's now that has said that it's impossible to hold dialogue with the regime here the foreign minister called very irresponsible and indeed unforgivable as i think there's a real sense that this arab league with the want to put unity ready to pursue the resolution through dialogue and to try and calm is extremely volatile situation

it's shocking really to see how much the situation is escalating day by day evening seeing this conflict creeping towards the capital people in damascus who weighed. not to the sound of gunfire from some of this arab league mission essentially has turned out to be a downed squid and there's a little people here saying what was the point and having them here in the first place if they were going to be made strengthened if they were going to try wait. and always essentially we're going to lead to a un action anyway so our first report there from syria elsewhere is also helping you keep track of the syrian conflict and stay up to the minute with all developments in the country via her twitter stream why her latest tweet she says observers compared their fact finding mission to tom and jerry is the case chase the address unsuccessfully around the country well that's how they explain the difficulty in trying to get an accurate perspective on the situation and sort of.

revision of russia's economic priorities that's what prime minister and presidential hopeful bottom or putin sees as one of the main tasks if you're against the top job first bottle of ideas now with an economic ten comes in his third pre-election article published and one of russia's major newspapers will have more on this let's now cross live to our correspondent laura piskun off good morning to you or so tell us what are the main points of put an economic agenda. good morning and we need a new economy that's the name of the article in which the prime minister focuses around his vision of russia's economy and how it should be developed in the future and the prime minister has outlined to be diversification of the economy as one of

the key goals for the next two years this diversification should be done including increasing the labor efficiency in russia which is are directly linked with creating better jobs attracting more investment reducing the role of the state in the economy and increasing the role of the private sector the prime minister has said that it was only after the fall of the iron curtain that most russians realize that the soviet union was not competitive in most years with the west in the ninety's russia found itself even in a more complicated situation especially during the economic and political turbulence and it ended up having just a few feet this fears of industries which are still competitive in the world and they include the space industry and nuclear technology now according to you are going to put in who is also listed a set of steers. off industries which she sees as the poor which should

provide russia's competitiveness and the world and have to be developed and this list includes pharmaceutics composite materials nanotechnologies information and commit communication technologies of course also the space industry and nuclear technology and aviation as well and only if these spheres are going to be developed and only if the state is only is going to actively participate in that porting to buy do important only in that case will russia be able to compete in the future. now this is the third such article published by. the prime minister after he announced that he was running for president during the upcoming all in mortgage and according to his press secretary read all three lead down the foundation of which program. all right igor thanks very much indeed for bringing us more on this group

is going off reporting there. coming up later in the program for you here in our military might a london security goes large for the upcoming summer olympics with tens of thousands of troops and high tech spy drones all that of it fears the spirit off the games will be damaged by a show of force. cops and occupiers in the city of oakland protesters more rallies in response to a brutal police crackdown the group's latest demonstration. baghdad a stereo and fresh ammunition for europe's bailout fund the main themes coming up in today's e.u. summit in brussels but the meeting the first such this year is set to start as critical greek credit talks drag on our correspondent as our celia has more from brussels. leaders of the twenty seven member states of the european union are

meeting today for the first summit of twenty it's well being called an informal summit. nevertheless of the states remain very specially with regard to the economic social and political stability of. official. are jobs and growth this is very crucial at a time when the average unemployment is at around ten percent even as high as twenty three percent in countries like spain point three million people unemployed possibly talk of job growth prospects are these are not new topics of themselves or been a lot of economic. point the need to strike that delicate balance between. but perhaps what is new today is that e.u. leaders themselves are putting those much importance and urgency on these topics as

they have are doing so with the slow consolidation it is expected that the seventeen members of the euro zone may meet after the e.u. summit it hasn't been officially but it may be decided upon today of whether the talks among the seventeen will go ahead and one of the most important topics they need to discuss is that. between greece and its creditors has to be a deal where. some of the greek take some losses is crucial greece has to get the. money it has about a fourteen point five billion euros. mature more. a default on. just adding to the mix of what's happening to. the. protests against the moves to make it harder for them to retire. only as well as

this one of the benefits of all of this is part of your government asserted ford to bring down the deficit of the country to with a three percent there have been talk prior to today to work on the scale of the e.u. summit so it doesn't coincide with a general strike but after all that said and done all of these are indeed happening today. are still you are importing them from brussels now if you missed any of our stories and don't hesitate to log on to our website our team dot com for the taste of what's there right. now it's one thing to admire architecture but one woman has taken per. one step further she prepares to marry a century old building. plus a giant israeli super drone crashes during a test flight find out what caused the largest manned aircraft in the country's arsenal to go down.