to examine iran's nuclear activities to iran says the talks with the un atomic body officials the first on such a level in more than three years will prove its nuclear ambitions are peaceful professor side mohammad marandi from the university of tehran says 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 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 the head of

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 rhetoric in front of america's influential jewish community archies more important i explains. america almost never misses an opportunity to crease its ally ironclad commitment and i mean ironclad to israel's security has meant the closest military cooperation between our two countries in history plus point a 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 barack obama's war of words against iran 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 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 made to obama. or we are going to kill you either politically or literally i think that it. serious threats are seriously the american president and while money. congress. is the largest. group in the united states it is the kingmaker in. the american israel public affairs committee known as

a pac declined artie's requests 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 not only clear and it is unacceptable and 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 was real 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 marine up or nile r.t. new york. director of the center for research on globalization michel chossudovsky says what we are witnessing now is part of our larger u.s. plan for war against iran what. it is is a build up walls of military confrontation besides when this goes through to. the staging of of of a military agenda and i should note that we have. massive disappointment of u.s. military troops going to israel was going to. go daigle forces the question go all the reagans. in other words i think what we're

going to states wants. to be doing is our guys is some kind of a green light which will give you with face the bold will. syrian 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 r.t. sara 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 that seems to be exactly what we've seen happening here now foreign minister sergei lavrov was speaking today on his tour of the asia pacific countries and he said that he didn't understand why such a useful tool had been treated in this way we've seen the observer mission start and eventually grounds to hold they never really recovered after that decision last

week for the gulf 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 at a very very crucial time with the situation in the country rather than making this mission stalled out rather than trying to make it more effective if you had the gold states withdrawing them on it is now he said that that aroused questions we saw the me saying coming up on tuesday where the as these days is three presenting . findings essentially briefing the u.n. and most days maimed remains very very adamant that it's 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 is 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 piss you a good resolution to 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 been here in the first place if they weren't going to be made strengthened if they weren't going to try what was style and they always essentially were going to lead to un action anyway so our first report in 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 and latest when she says observers compare 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 in certain areas. of the. revision of russia's economic priorities that's what prime minister and presidential hopeful want him 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 third pre-election article published in one of russia's major newspapers well for more on this let's now cross live to a correspondent igor piskun off good morning to you or so tell us what are the main points of put an economic agenda. good morning we need

a new economy that's the name of the order go 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 as. diverse as you kishen of the economy as one of the key goals for the next two years this diversification should be done including increasing efficiency in russia which is. directly linked with creating better jobs attracting more investments 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. ended up having just

a few years off industries which are still competitive in the world and they include the space industry and nuclear technology now according to god's own approach in who's also listed a set. of industries which he sees as the poor which should provide russia's competitiveness in 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 to do important only in that case. 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 pull in mortgage and according to his press secretary need to be all three laid down the foundation of. all program. all right thanks very much indeed for bringing us more on this. coming up later in the program for here in our military might and in security go. 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 the show of force. cops and occupiers in the city of oakland protesters of 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

at today's e.u. summit in brussels but the meeting the first such this year is set for a start as critical greek credit talks drag on our correspondent s. are celia has more from brussels. leaders of the twenty seven member states of the european union are meeting today for the first summit twenty. nevertheless of the states remain very high especially with regard to the economic social and political stability of certain member states official. our jobs and growth this is very painful at a time when the average unemployment is at around ten percent even. twenty three percent in countries like spain. three million people unemployed possibly. talk of job creation and growth prospects these are not new topics of themselves

a lot of economic. point the need to strike that delicate balance. 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 to do with. the school consolidation it is expected that the seventeen members of the eurozone area may need after the e.u. summit it hasn't been officially announced but it may be decided upon today of whether the talks among between the seventeenth will go ahead and one of the most important topics to discuss is that of. greece creditors. some of the greek losses is crucial. money it has about a fourteen point five billion euros. but sure. it will be

a default. just adding to the mix of what's happening today. people are going out to protest against moves to make it harder to retire. only. morning benefits and all of this is part. four to bring down the. prior to today. so it doesn't coincide with. all of. our stories don't hesitate to log on to our website. now it's one thing to. one woman per. one step further. to mary.

drones are just the tip of the security. for the greatest show on earth taking the possibility of a terrorist attack seriously one summer olympic preparations are calling on all corners of the nations to. reports. in the capital city but simply prove to be. spectators may know they will. but they will. surveillance drones like this could be circling the.

police may use the spy cameras. tera tactics that the. place drones can make number plates. so. previous seeking. painters' fear is the start of a slippery slope i think it be our salute tragedy for britain the largest part of the olympic legacy was a surveillance legacy where we install the sequence in the name of national security and then when the other bits are over we keep using it very very serious risk the privacy that might not be adequately protected the spy in the skies been piloted before in britain by police forces but never took off after one crashed into a river and the u.k. aviation authority failed to grant the necessary license that's the only legal requirement before this sort of surveillance becomes a reality at the olympics a minor hurdle for what's already britain's biggest peacetime security operation

total cost over one point six billion dollars it is worrying that the security bill has increased so drastically from initial estimates one of the reasons being given for this is so heightened risk of terrorism which seems incredible as an excuse at a time when the original estimates were made around the time of the london bombings when london was considered to be a very high risk so it seems incredible they got the estimates so badly wrong in the first place commandos speeding up the thames is one answer to a myriad of perceived terror threats this time a hijacked passenger boat they'll also be warships and get on the thames attack helicopters on standby even ground to air missiles ready to launch or vance before you even get to the security on the ground to give you an idea of the numbers take the olympic stadium capacity eighty thousand ground security at the games is enough to fill sixty percent of that inside the venue will be over twenty three thousand

security guards along with seven and a half thousand military personnel and then outside a further six thousand troops along with twelve thousand police total just shy of fifty. the budget is polluted by a hundred percent because initial estimates were woefully inadequate but that still couldn't stop two fake bombs being sneaked in under the radar at the stadiums dummy runs not exactly great value for money london organizers have tried to play down fees the olympic village will be a siege city but with such a massive security operation the planned elim pick legacy of international friendship may not be the one that's actually. been its number. up to four hundred occupy protesters arrested was a number still growing what began as a peaceful rally in the city of oakland against inequality quickly turned into one of the most dramatic clashes in the movement's history riots clad cops jumped into

action firing tear gas and flash grenades at protesters hiding behind make sure the barriers very simple dozens of people were injured including three police officers after demonstrators began throwing rocks at the police and the aftermath the mayor of oakland told the l five movement to stop treating her city as a playground plus he also called on courts to keep anyone arrested more than once ever protest out of the city for good or flowers from the international action center believes the occupy movement is like an alarm clock for hard pressed americans. it's very much achieving its goals in terms of waking up the youth in the us waking up working people in the us to the reality the reality that poor and working people are losing more and more and that one percent actually one thousands of one percent is gaining a normal new wealth so that they are very successful in drawing attention to that

again and again the media tries to base this occupy movement as being on the bio and from the police and a broken piece of glass is not the broken heads that the police are inflicting on the occupy movement and that movement is very determined to continue and to find new tactics. well let's take a look now at some other stories from around the world this story talks between the u.s. and the taliban have reportedly begun in qatar they are discussing trust building measures including a possible transfer of prisoners from guantanamo bay up to eight taliban representatives are said to have traveled to pakistan which had allegedly hold previous attempts at such talks the afghan government which isn't directly involved in the process says it seeking separate peace talks with these mommas group in saudi arabia. thousands of people have gathered in central pakistan to demand

supply routes used by nato forces in afghanistan are kept close islamic speakers at the rally called for independence from u.s. foreign policy and vowed to stage further protest if any attempt to open channels his main border checkpoint stopped supplies for nato troops in afghanistan last year following an airstrike which killed twenty four pakistani troops. well up next a recap of today's top stories after we take a look what's happening in the world of business with natasha stay with us. twenty four minutes past eight am here in moscow watching business. the russian government is insisting a local businesses should stop using offshore tax havens it argues a cash injection would help the economy develop they had of the world's largest alimony and producer tells business r.t.

for the idea to work russia needs to overhaul its tax system. it's good to be very positive because it means that the russian legal system will differ as it falls in the because you know you know very often overthrow it just. opportunity to use you know so it's only in the corporate in the scheme in not to establish no problem in the partnership arrangement joint venture and that's why many. say joint venture or developer is focused on russia but also its tax regime we have a lot of advantage in the tax system but to in that to change it will disappear and not just for russia and b. but also for foreign business investments in russia in those in the in the docs in the heaven of course you know we need to improve that system. russia's innovation hubs coca-cola is welcoming its first residents last november its management picked this team projects out of more than fifteen hundred applicants giving them free

also says a new one hundred fifty thousand dollars on startup capital skolkovo as head the victim outlines the plans for this year. the fukushima we're going to get it came as a surprise but skolkovo managed to attract over one hundred fifty million dollars of private investment last year this year we'd like to double the figures for a large corporation it's not a lot but to get it for high tech research orientated small and medium sized businesses it's very impressive. and let's now take a look at the markets oil first and it's a losing value traders a cautious ahead of the european union summit in brussels late on monday it looks like investors viewed the situation in the middle east as not as much of a factor as the fiscal pact the e.u. leaders are expected to sign this hour this will be around ninety nine dollars a barrel brant is a one hundred and eleven dollars and now on to equities asian shares and weaker

with investors also in the wait for the news from europe germany is pushing to introduce the e.u. oversight of three the greek budget but the country's finance minister says the move is unnecessary and hong kong the stocks are also under pressure as the expected policies easing. banks are losing ground this hour in tokyo exporters a suffering from a stronger again the toyota is down almost one percent and two hours ahead of the opening bell here in moscow the russian markets finished friday's session on a negative note we're seeing the closing figures there both of my sex and they are the r.t.s. dropped almost half percent. and a look ahead to the trading week the u.s. economic growth figures were disappointing when they were released on friday douglas role for all seems says that they have a knock on effect although generally the sentiment is rather positive. even with

the correction i think the market will still see some shift from gas names into a banking stocks and maybe after a bit of a correction i think that these will be the names which investors will start picking up some more stock in also you know with regard to the first year flows we're seeing more of money from exchange traded funds coming into russia which is even though replacing some of the cash coming out from dedicated funds you know which indicates to me that global sentiment is moving back towards a neutral or waiting since russia had been underweight since at least september of last year. the first foreign investor is coming to russia's wrong milk production one of the world's largest agricultural commodity traders on wall and the milk producer small core will jointly invest up to five hundred million

dollars and the industry that of estes paper says this plan to build a new farm which will be able to produce three hundred thousand tonnes of milk a year. and that's all the latest from the business team i'll be back in about fifteen minutes.

mission soon which brightened if you move from phones to pressure it's. nice for stunts on t.v. don't come. back to watching r.t. here is a look at the top stories iran warns a ban on oil sales to some new countries is still possible as a group of top u.n. nuclear inspectors star their three day mission and the islamic republic. dark clouds of war are looming over the syrian capital with heavy artillery fire heard on the outskirts and government tanks and witnesses on the streets. and it's back

to brussels for new leaders as the blog rattled by debt crises seeks to install spanning seat belts for each member nation. was russia's economy comes under scrutiny from russia's prime minister what he recorded and the light. this article backing his presidential bid. next on the program has iran braces itself to face the fact of fresh west imposed sanctions we sit down with its interior minister to ask how the current standstill is influencing affairs inside the country. the possibility of war between the united states and iran is being debated there around the world but what the mood is like inside the country to discuss that they are now joined by iran's interior minister. thank you for your time i missed.