will 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 an end to iran's alleged nuclear weapons program meanwhile a high profile group of i spect there is have begun the earth three day mission to examine iran's nuclear activities iran says the talks with the un atomic body officials the first in 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 the i.a.e.a. visit will not change the west hardline approach towards iran. but a currently has full time monitors in iran this is something that we rarely hear in the western media we have cameras in all of iraq installations 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 be head of a is he owes his job to the united states if you look at the wiki leaks documents. now what america beats the drums of war over iran may not always be driven by the islamic states nuclear intentions were being us presidential candidates aren't shy when it comes to voicing their anti ron rhetoric in private america isn't wenzel jewish community is more important i explained. 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 plus point a proverbial punch at its greatest adversary be no doubt america is determined to

prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon and i will take no options off the table ok however for many american jews in israel support for iraq obama's war of words against the wrong doesn't go far no sign of to simply state i'm committed to israel security you have to promote policies that commit you 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 this is an existential threat to israel and obama should be saying. so publicly that he will support israel in whatever military action they say they need necessary more inclined as 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 televisa 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 life played 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 the threat made to obama. or we are going to kill you either politically or literally i think that.

our experience the american president and money. congress. has the largest singularly largest. group in the united states it is the king maker in the king the american israel public affairs committee known as a pac declined our teams request for an interview meanwhile obama finds himself facing another election and a slew of republican opponents banging on much louder war drums against iran with regards to iran which perhaps represents the greatest exist central threat to israel we have to make it abundantly 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 than clear ally of 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 present. obama will be forced to put israel's national security first. r.t. new york. well the young going on western attempts to corner iran and what iran is doing in response are both tackled and cross and that's coming up at seven am g.m.t. here's a taste of what's ahead. i would even want to bring the hidden even out of a well by doing something spectacular destructive to enemies of islam and this is what motivates. all of the old soviet leadership who for all their misdeeds were atheists so they believe that a nuclear war and death was an end in failure and many things dying in

a nuclear war for allah will get him to paradise what incentive do you have to bring to bear on him what carrot can you offer him to compare with so you have to be prepared to stop his military efforts and he says i'm going to go and he says he doesn't and you can evolve to be a really really anybody who wants to wipe out israel which is a lot for a country that has been attacking anybody we should not be only drop to the most powerful nation this kind of rhetoric this kind of rhetoric is not good for israel is really is a very strong country and it doesn't need this bibi netanyahu use of this kind of information and rhetoric to get reelected he doesn't need another people do you know them. ok we're going to be nice to you this interesting to me. syrian troops backed by tanks and heavy ammunition have reportedly regain control over the outskirts of damascus activists suggest over sixty people have been killed

in the latest fighting just over a day after the arab league mission was frozen 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 age of 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 stronger rather than trying to make it more effective if you have 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 very 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 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 china tea ready to piss you 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. seeing

this conflict creeping towards the capital people in damascus who weighed. up 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 they always essentially were going to lead to a un action anyway so our first reporting there and there is also helping you keep track of the syrian competence to the minute was all development in the country via her twitter stream and her latest tweet she says observers compare near a fact finding mission to tom and jerry as they chase. unsuccessfully around the country and that's how they explain the difficulty in trying to get an accurate perspective on the situation in certain areas.

of revision of russia's economic priorities that's what prime minister and presidential hopeful lattimer putin sees as one of the main tasks if you're against the top job a fresh bottle of ideas now with an economic ten comes in his third pre-election article published in one of russia's major newspapers let's get more on this now from our correspondent igor so your how is prime minister putin going to achieve economic prosperity in russia. we need a new economy that's the time to go and watch the prime minister with a set of mergers. providing competitive competitiveness in the international economy and diversification. is the main goal diversification which should include

increasing wieber efficiency which is directly linked with better jobs attracting more investment reducing the rule of the steve in the u.k. . to me any increasing the role of the private sector says that an isolated economy is not as effective saying that it was only after the fall of the iron curtain that most russians realized the u.s.s.r. was lacking in its combat in this with the world in most years and russia asked come a long way since then now its economy is closely linked with the global one but only in the few years is that still remain competitive like the traditional space exploration and nuclear energy now prime minister putin has listed a set of spheres which she sees or vinyl and have to be developed in order to provide russia's competitiveness and they include nano technologies in tank chemical industries the aviation industry information and communication

technologies and more of these spears have to be developed in order for russia to be a proper global player both politically and economically in this sense now this is the third article published by the president since. by the prime minister since he announced that he's going to run for president at the upcoming. in march. basically he says is that more innovation and more and better education these are the main goals russia has to stop importing to colonies from abroad and has to start developing new ones on its own now according to. human approaching this press secretary these are the three articles which have already been published are you going to lay the foundation of his manifesto. all right daryn thanks very much for bringing us the reporting there. and coming out for you

later in the program here on our team military my fellow. and then security goes large for the upcoming summer olympics with tens of thousands of troops and high tech spy drones all that amid fears the spirit off games will be damaged by a show of force. cops in occupiers in the city of oakland all rich man says of tolerance go out the window a police barge pro-equality activists with gas grenades and jail time. bad debt to stare at am 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 for a 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 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 crucial at a time when the average unemployment is at around ten percent even. twenty three percent in countries like spain it is expected that the seventeen members of the euro area they meet the it hasn't been officially but it may be decided upon today of whether the talks among the seventeen will go ahead or one of the most important topics to discuss is that. between greece and its creditors has to be. take some losses is crucial to get the. money out into the mix of what's happening today

holding a general strike involved both the private and public sector people are going out to protest against moves to make it harder for them to retire early as well as this one of the benefits of all of this is part of the government asserted ford to bring down the deficit. three percent. prior to today. so it doesn't coincide with. all but all of these are indeed happening today. reporting there and if you missed any of our stories don't hesitate to log on to our web site. here's a taste of what's there for the state. it's one thing to admire architecture but one woman has taken her one step further as she prepares to marry. a century old building. plus a giant israeli super drone crashes during

a test flight find out why it cost the largest manned aircraft in the country's arsenal to go down. and spy drones are just the tip of the security iceberg for the u.k. as it readies itself for the greatest show on earth taking the possibility of a terrorist attack seriously your london summer olympic preparations are calling on all corners of the nation's defenses but as artie's ivor bennett reports such measures may not only target the capital city but simply proved to be an effective . spectators may know who they're watching at the olympics but they won't know who's watching them surveillance drones like this could be circling the skies of

london this summer police may use the spy cameras in their lympics anti terror tactics it will leave no hiding place the drones can make out a car's number plate from heights of up to one kilometer privacy campaigners 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 have stalled a sequence in the name of national security and then when the other books are over we keep using it very very serious with the purposes that might not be adequately protected the spy in the skies been piloted before in britain by four 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 could 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 id. 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 so it's all just shy of fifty thousand the budget is polluted by one 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 plan the limb pick legacy of international friendship may not be the one that's actually. been it to london. the mayor of oakland has asked courts to ban any occupy activists with a record of protest arrests and touring the city ever again heard a man falls one of the most dramatic clampdowns on the movement and its history

more than four hundred people were arrested when what began as a peaceful rally against the quality of police brutality turned rough ride clad cops jumped into action firing tear gas and flashed in the internet for testers hiding behind makeshift barriers bearing peace symbols dozens of people were injured including three police officers after demonstrators began throwing rocks at the police tara flounders from the international action center believes the occupy movement is live from the alarm clock for hard pressed america says. it's very much achieving its goals in terms of waking up the u.s. and the us waking up working people in the us to the reality the reality that poor and working people are losing more and and more. one percent actually one thousand so one percent is gaining a normas new wealth so that they're very successful in drawing attention to that

again and again the media tries to base this off as being bi on the violence 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 now is take a look at some other stories from around the world and story talks between the u.s. and the taliban have reportedly begun in qatar and they are discussing trust building measures including a possible transfer of prisoners from guantanamo bay up to aides tell the bob representatives are said to have traveled to guitar from pakistan which had allegedly told the previous attempts at such talks the afghan government which isn't directly involved in the process as it seeking separate peace talks with the islamic group in saudi arabia. thousands of people have gathered in central pakistan to demand supply routes used by nato forces in afghanistan are kept closed

islamic speakers at the rally call for independence from us foreign policy invalid to stage further protest if any attempt to open the channels has made border checkpoints stop supplies for nato troops in afghanistan last year following an airstrike which killed twenty four pakistani troops. temp people have been killed and eighteen injured in a highway crash in florida happened in the early hours of the morning after smoke from a nearby brush fire combined with fog to reduce visibility on the road multiple vehicles were involved in the accident with some of them bursting into flames leaving wreckage covering almost a mile of the highway. well it raises up to date here on r t do stay with us for the business of. and more coming after that.

twenty four minutes past nine am here in moscow you're watching business r.t. the world's a largest alimony and producer rule saul is cutting production for the first time since the crisis of two thousand and eight the company's c.e.o. ali drew posco told bloomberg the output may be lowered by six percent within a year and house rivals such as alcoa and rio tinto are also decreasing production out of the price one to solve may close some of its inefficient production lines speaking exclusively to business our teacher bosco said he expects prices to remain weak for the first half of the year. we don't expect them in a significant improvement in their six months in the we are. not in the very bullish but optimistic for the second part of those a year but it's a moment some of this market is quite stable in just close with them it was. in the positive transformation in the improvement in your slowdown in the euro but in

general it's the. russia's innovation help skolkovo is welcoming its first residence last november its management picked fifteen projects out of more than fifteen hundred applicants giving them free offices and one hundred fifty thousand dollars in startup capital school had to victor outlines the plans for this year. to be crucial with those who 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 and research orientated small and medium sized businesses it's very impressive. and let's now take a look at the markets or oil first and it's losing value traders are cautious ahead of the european union summit in brussels late on monday tensions in iran are also

weighing on the price the country's deputy while ministers said crude prices could reach one hundred fifty dollars per barrel if the e.u. embargo braun's exports comes into force in july this hour at the w t i's at around ninety nine dollars a barrel grant is a one hundred eleven. and bow on to equities asia started the week with mawson's for many in mainland china monday's the first day back from the lunar new year holiday and investors are disappointed with the continued tight monetary and fiscal policy in china and hong kong the stocks are also under pressure in tokyo exports are suffering from the stronger yen toyota is down almost one percent. and here in russia it's less than one hour ahead of the opening bell the russian markets finished friday's trading session in the red you saying the closing figures there both of my sex and the r.t.s. dropped around house percent. a look ahead to the trading week

use economy growth figures released on friday were disappointing dogs are all from we're all seem so. does that may have a knock on a fact although generally the sentiment is pretty positive. even with the correction i think the market will still see some sector shifts from gas names into our banking stocks and maybe after a a bit of a correction i think that these will be the names which investors will start making up some more stock in also you know with regard to the first year flows we're seeing more of money from the exchange traded funds coming into a russia which is even though replacing some of the cash coming out from dedicated funds you know which indicates to me the global sentiment on russia is moving back towards a neutral or waiting since russia had been underweight since at least september of last year. and that's at this hour i'll be back in about fifteen minutes.

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what about your watching party live from moscow these are the top stories iran warns a ban on the oil sales to solve e.u. countries are still possible as a group of top u.n. nuclear inspectors start their three day mission and the islamic republic. dark clouds of war are looming over the syrian capital would have your tillery fire

heard on the outskirts of government tanks witnessed on the street. back to brussels for the blog rattled by debt crisis suits to pass and each member nation with the spending. cuts prime minister putin gets down to business and comes up with brushes in the economic layout of the latest article to back his presidential bid. that's for the top stories and i'll be back at the top of the hour with more updates for you remember you can always turn to our web site for more on. the meantime i bring you our special report. on his way to work every day. by the homes of his neighbors the houses of the remains of. the people moved out a long time ago. they used to be a house right here. and there with.