meanwhile a high profile group of i spect us have the god there are three day mission to examine iran's nuclear activities and iran says the talks with when atomic body officials first and such 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 visit will not change the west's hardline approach towards iran the a currently has full time monitors in iran this is something that we rarely hear in the western media and we have cameras in all of iran 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 the head of the i.a.e.a. a is he owes his job to the united states if you look at the wiki leaks documents the united states and the europeans are basically engaging in acts of war against the iranian people as the real issue is not the nuclear program it is iran independence and sovereignty. when america beats the drums of war over iran it may not always be driven by the islamic states nuclear intentions will be u.s. presidential candidates aren't shy when it comes to voicing their anti iran rather in front of america's influential jewish community in a fortnight 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 point a proverbial punch at its greatest adversary but there 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 and israeli supporters barack obama's war of words against tehran doesn't go far no sign of the simply state i'm committed to israel security you have to promote policies that commit 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 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 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 to. 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 it was serious threat. seriously the american president and the money.

congress. has the largest 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 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 a 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 president obama will. be forced to put israel's national security first. r.t. new york. now the young going western attempts to corner iran and what iran's doing in response are both tackled and paedophiles cross it's coming up next hour so here is a taste of what's ahead. and 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 him and 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 it 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 move on what did you really really really do you want to wipe out israel which is a lot for a country that has been attacked anybody 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 do this kind of information and rhetoric to get reelected he doesn't need now the people you know how did you know them like you are going to be nice to you because it's interesting to me. syrian troops backed by tanks and having ammunition have reportedly you 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 are you sara for us reports from the

syrian capital. well the sense really that this decision to hold the mission was going to inflame an already extremely volatile situation and unfortunately that's exactly what we've seen happen now the foreign minister lavrov was speaking on his tour of asia pacific countries and what he said about it was that he didn't really understand why such a useful tool was used in this way and now we've seen the observer mission start and eventually grounds to a halt 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 and now was interesting was when that decision was made for the gulf states to withdraw their monitors one of the observers i had

i was speaking to you had hinted that perhaps the rest of them would would follow and is seems really now with them having their mission hold to that this is possibly what's going to happen we've got the meeting coming up on cheese day where the arab league against three presenting. findings essentially briefing the u.n. and most guys named remains a 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 was the one opportunity ready to piss you are the resolution through dialogue there's a lot of 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 what was dialogue and if all right is essentially we're going to lead to a u.n.

. action anyway but harassing you call do you know you've got are being all these areas around the capital that have seen increasing conflict and they were really serious reports about the violence happening in those areas and very very concerning because the area way west fact but you've got a huge number of civilian people still on the ground that he's lives in now in very very serious danger with this as a thing situation so for us reporting there and stare is also helping to keep track of the syrian conflict and stay up to the minute with all developments in the country fire her twitter story on her latest tweets she says observers compare their fact finding mission to tom and jerry as the chase press unsuccessfully around the country well that's how they explained the difficulty in trying to get an accurate perspective on the situation in certain areas. of the.

revision of russia's economic priorities and that's what prime minister and presidential hopeful lot of important sees as one of the main tasks if you were against the top job a fresh bottle of ideas now with an economic ten comes in these third pre-election article published in one of russia's major newspapers well as good now more on this from our correspondent igor so he or tell us how prime minister putin is going to boost russia's economy. who according to prime minister which in the world is strongly witnessing a very interesting time one of the global economic crisis has led to a reorganization of power with some of these traditional freebird stepping down and new queers gaining more influence in your own fortunes. all the chances to secure a place the global leader or so of course our problems in the primary. does

a list them including one of the mean one is russia's dependency on natural resources which leads to poor weaver efficiency outdated technologies and a lack of competitiveness in most other steers are in this trees in russia and the prime minister also says that even private investors are afraid to give money into new projects in the other steers besides energy projects the prime minister says that a major overhaul is needed for the entire system for all sectors from the service sector to the farming industry but it's not an easy task since russia is a huge country with a diverse climate and environment and a big population so of course these aren't really tasks for the next several months about for the next several years but the prime minister is also listed set off our

course fears and industries which have to be developed in order to provide russia's competitiveness in the world the include the traditional. already become traditional the space exploration and. nuclear energy but there's also all the pharmaceutics and high tech came and kill industries a mediation and so on and the prime minister says that even though the state has to start reducing its influence on the economy there are these couper spears of industries where control is is simply essential now also it's very important that russia has managed to finally get into the world trade organization which is going to help its modernize the entire system for the spall for off the entire system so these are some of the key ideas put forward by the prime minister

in this article which is. the third such order go since why did putin announce that he's running for president the upcoming presidential vote in moore show and according to his press secretary these are the three articles are forming the foundation of his electoral program. ok your thanks very much for bringing us this update your office can offer boarding there. it watching our team coming up for you later in the program cops and occupiers in the city of oakland all perchance is of tolerance go out the window as police bombard pro-equality activists with gas grenades and jail time. bad data stary and frasch 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 tan 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 it's being called an informal summit and it's not being labeled as a last ditch effort and this time nevertheless the stakes remain a very specially 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 and countries like spain it is expected that the seventeen members of the main meet. it hasn't been officially announced 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 ongoing negotiations between greece and its creditors there has to be

a deal where. some of the greek take some losses is crucial here if greece is to get the. money out into the mix of what's happening today belgium is holding a general strike involved both the private and public sector people are going out to protest against government moves to make it harder for them to retire early as well as the. benefits of all of this is part of the government asserted put forward to bring down the deficit of the country to. three percent talk prior to today. it doesn't coincide with a general strike but after all. all of these are indeed happening today. are still reporting there well if you missed any of our stories don't have. common here's a taste of today. it's one thing to admire architecture this

woman has taken her one step further should. repairs to marry a century old building. was a giant israeli super drone crashes during a test flight find out what caused the largest manned aircraft in the country's largest will go down. the mayor of oakland has asked courts to throw any occupy activists with a record of protest arrests out of the city her demand follows one of the most dramatic climb downs on the movement and its history more than four hundred people were arrested when what began as a peaceful rally against inequality and police brutality turned raw riots clad cops jumped into action firing volumes of tear gas flash grenades at protesters hiding

behind makeshift barriers bearing peace symbols dozens of people were injured including three police officers after demonstrators began throwing rocks at the police sara flounders 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 the one percent actually one thousands of one percent is gaining enormous new wealth so that they're very successful in drawing attention to that again and again the media tries to bait this occupy movement as being violent the violence has come 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. now let's take a look at some of the stories from around the world his story talks between the u.s. and the taliban have reportedly been getting qatar they are discussing trust building measures including a possible transfer of prisoners from guantanamo bay up to a taliban representatives are said to have traveled to qatar from pakistan which had allegedly hold of previous attempts to get such talks the afghan government which isn't directly involved in the process says it's seeking separate peace talks with islam is a group in saudi arabia. thousands of people have gathered in central pakistan to demand supply routes used by nato forces in afghanistan are closed as speakers at the rally hold for independence from u.s. foreign policy and vowed to stage further protest if any attempt to open the channels is made border checkpoints stop supplies for nato troops in afghanistan

last year following an airstrike which killed twenty four pakistani troops. some people have been killed and one thousand injured in a highway crash in florida it 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 the highway. also ahead this hour here on r t the reigning australian open champion has retained its crown get all the details from andrew in our sports update in about twenty five minutes for that with a clue what's happening the world of business with natasha. twenty one minutes past the hour you're watching business on r.t.e. the world's largest alum minium producer bruce sol is cutting production for the first time since the two thousand and eight crisis the company's c.e.o.

i do a pasco told bloomberg the output may be lowered by six percent within a year and a half to solve rivals such as alcoa and rio tinto are also decreasing production after the price slump roussel may close some of it's inefficient production lines speaking exclusively to business r.t. it's had a larger pasco said he expects prices to remain weak for the first top of the year . we don't expect. significant improvement the next six months in the we're. not. very bullish but optimistic for the second part of the year but it's a moment some of this market is quite stable course we come over. in the positive transformation in the improvement do you see the slowdown in the euro but just to the. russia's innovation hubs skolkovo is welcoming its first residence was nov its management picked fifteen projects out of more than fifteen hundred applicants

giving them free offices and one hundred fifty thousand dollars a start up capital school couples had victual decks of burgled lines the plans for this year. we're going to call 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 that figure 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 it's time now to check out the markets oil first and its losing value traders a 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 oil minister has said crude prices could reach one hundred fifty dollars a barrel if the e.u. embargo bronze exports comes into force in july this hour that hundred ninety nine dollars a barrel brant is up one hundred eleven. and now on to equities asia started the

week with losses for many in mainland china on monday is the first day back after the lunar new year holiday and investors are disappointed with continued tight monetary and fiscal policy in china and tokyo exporters are suffering from a stronger yeah and toyota is down almost one percent and hong kong the hang seng is shedding three quarters of a percent. and here in moscow the market started monday's trading session in the red the r.t.s. is shedding a third of a percent this hour the my six is down around the corner of a percent in the first hour of trade. looking ahead at the trading week u.s. economic growth figures released a late friday were very disappointing douglas role from world says that may have a knock on effect although generally the sentiment is rather positive. in with your correction i think the market will still see some ships from oil and

gas names into our banking stocks and maybe after a bit of a correction i think that these will be the names which investors will start making up some more stark. also you know with regard to the first year flows we're seeing more of money from exchange traded funds are 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 on russia is moving back towards a neutral or waiting since russia had been underweight since at least september of last year. first foreign investors coming to russia's raul milk production one of the world's largest agricultural commodities traders own mom and a local milk producer. will jointly invest up to five hundred million dollars in the industry but of us to believe reports that two companies plan to build new farms which will be able to produce three hundred thousand tonnes of milk as year.

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welcome back here with our team here is a look at the top stories iran warns of an oil sales to some e.u. countries is still possible as a group of top u.n. nuclear inspectors star their three day mission and these lawmakers public. dark clouds of war are looming over the syrian capital with heavy artillery fire heard

on the outskirts and government tanks witnessed on the streets. it's back to brussels for e.u. leaders as the blog rattled by debt crisis seeks to fasten each member nation with a spending scene. last prime minister gordon gets down to business and comes up with russia's new economic play out in the latest article to back his presidential bid. well next as iran braces itself to face the effect of fresh west imposed sanctions we sit down with its interior minister to ask how the current standstill isn't one see affairs and side the country. the possibility of war between the united states and iran is being vehemently debated there around the world that's what the mood is like inside the country to discuss that we are now joined by iran's interior minister. thank you for your time.