we're talking several days after the e.u. introduced oil sanctions against iran and i know the iranian leadership has responded by saying the sanctions would do more harm to your advantage in iran i mean you're still since iran gets seventy percent of its revenues from oil do you have any fears about negative social reactions including strikes as people may lose their jobs do you take this somehow into account in your work. that these speculations are new to our country and our government or the power of the people all around ruling bodies or in power as a result of popular voting therefore our government and are all for it is a completely popular and our people have participated in all areas and spheres of our life from the very start of the revolution therefore as i've said there's nothing new about these talks which are actually quite outdated and irrelevant nonetheless they keep speculating on this matter of trying to stir up psychological warfare inside our country or in the countries of the region or probably among

people of their own countries that have enough of their own problems attempting to find someone else to blame for them we don't sell that much oil to europe and our european accounts don't have that much money. in this that. the u.s. and the west as a how do not conceal that one of the main tasks of these sanctions is to get the oil prices for the iranian oil lower that's decreasing their revenues from the oil iran saudi is the while at two we used to manipulate the political situation. the way was that i believe they've made a big mistake as this action results in turbulence for the oil and energy markets this very factor can result in oil price growth in these conditions the west should expect the drop in the euro rate and the euro market this new decision will result in further economic problems which as we can see have affected them already. and so

far they've been unable to find solutions oil and energy markets will experience instability and turmoil and this factor can boost prices for oil and energy products and jeopardize the market security and this is quite difficult for the markets which going by previous experience is used to consuming certain kinds of oil and energy and this also brings up technical and economic issues at the same time we're not worried for iran at all we've ensured our efficient planning in advance and with god's help we will continue moving forward that the the decisions taken today by the west unilaterally will result in the escalation of their own economic problems. iran ians navaids the rankins with the aggressive and military rhetoric being built up by the west that they aren't as i've said these words aren't new these speculations have been going on for thirty years and there's no news in it to the iranian people the people of iran are in charge and they always participate in everything we don't sense any problems inside the country though if

i may i would like to ask you about the recent killing of a nuclear scientist there have been other similar cases and as far as we understand the investigation into it has not made great progress so far why have there been no substantial results and who might be behind the killing. of this is clear is day and they admitted mossad and the cia as well as some european security services don't like to see nations progress they would like to have control and a monopoly over everything the great iranian nation and follows the path of searching for new technologies and it wants to stand firmly on its feet by means of its own strengths and produce its own knowledge they disapprove of this progress and they don't want to see other nations develop themselves the fact that they come over to such people's homes or attempt to murder an educated and broad minded university professor highlights the grave nature of their situation. it

demonstrates that the us and israel have disgraced themselves in this matter they speak of human rights and at the same time they officially perform terrorist attacks and promote state terrorism expansion. in their slogans we see their idle talk on fighting terrorism their deeds however do not match their words they brought their troops to afghanistan under the pretext of defending human rights and fighting terrorism and drug trafficking and drug crops have increased forty fold since the americans got there. the number of casualties among innocent men women and children has increased significantly and so has the level of instability in the region that we actually witness terrorism development in the region with drug mafia and drug related revenues have grown as well we see contradiction between their words and deeds. the scientists assassination will only make the iranian people stronger and more focused on their goal. people understand that they've chosen the right path the one of scientific progress the adversary doesn't want to see this

happen that it would cause harm to them physical annihilation of people in full daylight as a sign of the adversary is complete powerlessness and despair. i now that iran is having parliamentary elections in a month in many countries not only arab ones election may be used as a way to create provocations there are always some people unhappy with election results and this discontent may snow ball i are concerned by this that a similar scenario man followed in iran. no thank god we've had twenty nine elections to date and this election campaign will be our thirtieth election and it will take place in absolute peace and security like all the previous ones because our dear fellow citizens in all the regions all the cities and villages will willingly come to polling stations and cast their votes to designate their delegates to parliament to serve the purposes of development and prosperity for our country that's the. you know that r.t.

has been comprehensively covering the situation in the arab countries as we have covered the wars in libya and syria we often heard complaints from the leadership that the intelligence services of other countries have stepped up their operations on the territories of the countries concerned in the past year the way many are ledged imaginaries in syria and libya who could see with our own eyes that some people were apparently not libyans but fought on the side of the rebels can you see any increase in the operations of intelligence services from other countries or any attempts to penetrate your territory at least in recent years since the latest events in the arab countries began. you see foreign powers and other enemies are at work everywhere they might also be present in our country but we do not feel we should worry about this of course we should look out for superpowers and our enemies are attempting to interfere in the home affairs of arabic countries especially in syria and in all countries where the people are in charge of running

their nations they must keep track of such attempts. i don't know of other ways but . it's been about ts since the arab spring began at first even the iranian leadership hailed the movement in egypt in libya as expressing democratic sentiments now that one year is passed the attitude towards the events around your country has changed do you still believe those are people are driven by their own democratic ideas or do you see hundred other countries in the events of the arab spring. we support any popular movement as long as people's demands are legitimate and the imperialistic regime of world supremacies is obviously trying to lead people away from the right path and neutralize the popular movement or transform it in favor of their own interests and the pure straightforward and righteous path that people have been following and what countries of the region however is stipulated by their willingness to defend their rights which. it's

a legitimate demand from iran's viewpoint but can one say that the instability in the region has considerably increased the narcotic drugs trafficking. yes afghanistan is certainly the focus of narcotic plantations now the americans and europeans are there and since they came narcotic drugs production has increased forty fold and it's a financial source for most terrorists who infringe the security of central asian states the states of the region and russia itself it's a threat not only for iran but for the region at large and russia if russia fails to keep an eye on what's going on next to its borders and around the country this threat will most probably become a serious problem for russia itself it's a fact that both iran and russia host the main drug trafficking route where at the beginning of it because the drugs first penetrate our country then followed to turkey and then to europe and on the other hand russia was also on the route that its northern end because the drugs penetrate russia through central asia and then

go to europe we suffer serious losses on this route more than three thousand seven hundred lives have been lost in the attempt to resolve this issue. given we as humans are convinced we have to go on with this ruthless battle so as to save our people and despite the fact that the world community does not lend us necessary assistance in this cause we're alone to bear most financial costs and human losses in order to continue the struggle shut down the borders and blockade the territory inside the country in order to prevent the trafficking so it seems iran and russia will have to take responsibility for the problem themselves. i was just the pairing for this interview several colleagues approached me at r.t. asking if there was going to be a war between iran and the usa which as you know on film. let me say this again all those fabrications are not new to us the. republic of

iran is a strong power capable of defending its regional security fully and the iranian people being a great and powerful nation are not afraid of those futile threats that. i am. were shot four times in total and there is a. story of the boys are still in my body. and those people should be allowed to defend themselves wherever they are guns in the hands of law abiding decent people are not a problem national rifle association person are. basically retired military and we love to shoot holes and i'm sorry if you know that the bullet comes

out here and this makes it go bang and if what's in front of here is going to die and that's all the training you really really need to raise your hand if you know something's been. ok a little i want to philadelphia the streets. until about a hopefully we will never have to use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared for the full class including the teacher as in close. seventeen students and six and one of seven was told.

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spending sued bells for its member nations. plus russia's economy comes under scrutiny from russia's prime minister in the latest article backing his presidential bid. so the top stories here in our team now and you brings you the latest sports and reaction to an amazing file which saw documents beating a doll for seven's time in a row. hello there welcome to the sporting these are the headlines really down on the never joke of a speech rafael nadal when you're striking an open in the longest grand slam final . plus in this fight back robin van persie schools twice from the penalty spot as arsenal come from behind to be dashed green to win the f.a. cup. and rock solid robert rock holds off a star studded field to claim surprise victory and happy. but first the tallit

novak djokovic has described his epic astray and triumph over rafael nadal is the best win of his career he outlasted the spaniard over five sets in just under six eyes and what turned out to be the longest grand slam final in history this serbian came from a set down to clinch the next two and looked in control in the fourth set. but grinning come back fine and so will the spaniard force a tight decide that and lead for say. i have a djokovic hit back and eventually converted his first match point to win it seven five and seal the marathon match in five thousand and fifty three minutes the final school five seven six four sixty six seven seven five the titanic tussle is both the longest grand slam final and the longest straight you know djokovic he's only the fifth man when three major titles in

a row the twenty four year old. in all six of them matches last year all of the finals but djokovic rates this when i was his best yet and it says the moment this is untouchable. balloon is right up there next to this one because it's just. the tournament that i always dreamed of winning. but this one i think comes out on the top because it's just. the fact that we played on the six hours is incredible incredible and there was a program the longest finals of these three or four grand slams and just to hear that fact is. making me cry really. now he's the best of the world. that's how they think it's. five so he studies. that he studies say that. he has a patent on the history today winning five winning. one of the world we'll see

a way for here right. meanwhile russia's you know best mean are lost the mixed doubles final she an indian partly and a pious came from the back came back from a set down against bethany matic center the usa i remain it's hard i take out the bengals in the tank you decided to try to break ten points for a safe choice to take out a market sounds flamboyant american adding her biggest title so far to her collection of unusual and fits. first finals and now it's. you know i wasn't too nervous it just kind of tested my partner and. good doubles players and came back the second. but we found it out and tearing yourself feels pretty good to have a tour of the picture up in the hallway next year so it's pretty cool moving on to football now robin van persie scored two quick penalties as arsenal came back from

to go stand to beat aston villa three two in the fourth round of the f.a. cup richard dunne and darren bent had given villa half time leads but three goals in seven minutes gave the gun his big three theo walcott's fifty seven finish drive it was sandwiched between van persie spot cakes as arsenal completed a stunning comeback earlier fraizer campbell scored sunderland equaliser as the black cats three one one in the northeast darby would reply will be at the riverside on february seventh or eight. going to draw then arsenal will travel to either sunderland all middle spray in the fifth round after the last sixteen for always also made on sunday elsewhere chelsea will play carling cup holders stoke travel to crawley who are currently third in england's fourth tier the winner of the replay between everton and blackpool will host sheffield wednesday brighton's reward for baiting newcastle is a trip to liverpool while bolton will go to ease the millwall or southampton

storage take on championship side less than and tottenham go to third to steven age who are in the last sixteen for the first time now the stadium that will host the opening match of the euro two thousand and twelve championships has been officially opened in warsaw it states a rock concert and firework display and thousands of brave. brave the bone chilling temperatures to enjoy the stadium cost six hundred million dollars to build and was meant to open last june but that was put off for pay today because of construction problems co-host posed a more paid here in the opening match on june the eighth and the poles will then play russia at this stadium four days later. there's been a surprise winner on govt european tour englishman robert rock a jury mcelroy graeme mcdowell and tiger woods to win the abu dhabi championship by one shot rock frank downside the world's top one hundred share the overnight lead within four words going into the final day and the two were neck and neck early on

with. two of the three holes but woods then crumbled with a straight bogey twelve thirty four year old growth proceeded with confidence they had an off and on ran with. coming in thick and fast but he still finished on thirteen on the world just enough to stay one straight day of the royal us open champion birdie his last hole while woods ended up in a three way tie with thomas bjorn down the northern irishman putting in a strong finish thanks to a hole in one on the twelfth followed by three birdies but the day belonged to rock he grabbed his second win on the tour. just started i managed to get in is a really radical field of play and it's all your words it's just it's just everything you want to do it was a goal for. you know was it was a day were i had a chance you know robert just played real solid all day. as i said earlier at the

ball final he didn't do anything you know wrong today and get a couple chiara shots at about ninety to good looks and. well swag golf has another very young champion as fourteen year old lydia code became the youngest ever player male or female to win a professional tournament she hit the flag there in the south wales open in sydney but the new zealand amateur held her trial by four shots could have created history when she was thirteen but came up just short of claiming her maiden crying at the same event last year meanwhile the youngest of a male golf win is japan's rio ishikawa he was fifteen when he picked up his first title but it is he's now basking in the limelight. and i can really think much. all i really knows i'm really happy and i could go the last three days. is i'm happy and people back in museum will be happy and

making history is just amazing. funny russia's restless have dominated the event grand prix in siberia the annual event nine dollars for the two time olympic champion has been a promising test for the russian team with just six months the guy before the start of the london olympics and from acosta reports. using the three day event wrapped up with the most captivating of bats in the men's heavyweight division once again wrestlers from russia have made it into all of the finals with only one american wrestler making it with the ultimate stage in the one hundred and twenty kilograms of vision the most prestigious weight class so a battle between olympic silver medalist russia's bucked the medal and four time all american wrestler serve the law can have the first period ended in a group but the russian managed to win the clinch despite losing the disc talks. in the fifth period and it will be more convincing in the second period and outscored blog never see points one and claimed gold despite failing to reach the

top of the podium at the reagan building grand prix the united states did finish in third place with one silver and three bronze medals these are certainly some of our best rustlers are talking about the lack of jake carter both medalled at the world championships and certainly have a good chance of medaling at the olympic games so now we have some our best guys here we've got some work to do the final in the eighty four kids of vision was a crowd pleaser with the local two time european champion on sort of the ship stepping out on the mats against last year's world championship runner up your heat the by the match had to be decided in an additional third round with a frosty arsed native getting the upper hand over his opponents from north to city zero honors in the ninety six k. division could only go to one place and that's russia's republic of dagestan both wrestlers represented the city of much both of the salon and zebra games so you don't have record of the world cup series in twenty eight cents and we're evenly

matched up here as well however it was the twenty three year. who outsmarts at his club mate and claimed gold luna should let you know we had hoped for three gold medals at the savant and the darkest on the wrist as did quite well the winners will soon compete at the european championships while silver and bronze medalists will head to gold competent in azerbaijan as for those and for those who didn't really impress here their have another chance to prove their worth at the russian nationals. russian rest are just claimed overall first place in the ebon garrigan golding drumcree with a gold and eight silver medals the japanese women helped their side finish second and then there you can skate third the olympics are coming up fast and most of the wrestlers will meet each other again soon in various qualification tournaments around the world that's all from cross they are i'm on call for the reporting for r.t. in eastern siberia if you names to look out for there in london in six months time

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bills for each member nation. plus prime minister putin gets down to business and comes up with brushes new economic layout of the latest article to back his presidential bid. and in the business bulletin the world's largest alinea producer sol is cutting production for the first time since the two thousand a price it's an exclusive interview its head. tells us why the details in twenty minutes. is not the russian capital you're watching r t with josh you welcome to the program to rob plans to hold oil exports to some e.u. countries are still alive warns iran's oil minister and that's despite the country's parliament temporarily postponing the debate on a pause.