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.a.e.a. inspectors have began their three day mission 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 the i.a.e.a. visit will not change the west's hardline approach towards iran. but the 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 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 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. and when america beats the drums of war over iran it may 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 iran rather it in front of america's influential jewish community artie's marina park 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 or 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 ok however for many american jews and israeli supporters barack obama's war of words against tehran doesn't go far enough some of the simply state i'm committed to israel security you have to promote policies that commit you that 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 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 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 our. tical 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 all money. congress. has the largest singularly largest. group in the nine states it is the king maker in the king breaker 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 than clear i want

to of israel i am 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. i'm a will be forced to put israel's national security first. the ongoing west ham's to corner iran and what iran is doing in response are both tackle to peter lavelle's cross that's coming up in about twenty five minutes and here's a taste of what's. the word even wants to bring the hidden even out of a well by doing something spectacular destructive to enemies of islam and this is what motivates him right you guys and all of the old soviet leadership who for all

their misdeeds were atheists so they believed 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 us 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 why did you marry in the new zealand and he 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 israel 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 you know did you know then like you i was going to be nice to you because interesting to me . and syrian troops backed by tanks and having ammunition have reportedly regain control over

the outskirts of damascus and 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 this year in 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 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 what it is i was 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 whole 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 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

a good 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 being got her off the go do you know you've got are being all these areas around the capital that have seen increasing home plate then there were really serious the polls about the violence happening in those areas and very very concerning because the area way way west fact but you've got a huge number of civilian people still on the ground that is lives are now in very very serious danger with this. situation so our first reporting there from syria answer is also helping you keep track of the syrian conflict and see up to the minute with all developments in the country via her twitter stream and in her latest tweets he says observers compare their fact finding mission to tom and jerry as the chase unsuccessfully around the country oh that's how they explain the

difficulty of 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 lot of your putin sees as one of the main tasks if he regains the top job a fresh bottle of ideas now with an economic tent comes in his third pre-election article published in one of russia's major newspapers. summed up the main points. according to prime minister putin the world is currently witnessing a very interesting time when the global economic crisis has led to reorganization of power with some traditional fever stepping down and new players gaining more influence and the prime minister says russia has all the chances to secure

a place the leaders of course are problems and one of the main one is russia's dependency on natural resources leads to poor libor efficiency outdated technologies and a lack of competitiveness in other spheres of in this trees in russia and the prime minister also says that private investors are afraid to give money into new projects in other skiers besides energy projects and 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 diverse climates band big population these aren't really tast for the next several months but for the next several years the prime minister is also listed set off for coup or industries which have to be developed they include the traditional space exploration and nuclear energy there's also the pharmaceutics

and high tech industries a lesion and so on and the prime minister says even though the state has to start reducing its influence on the economy there are these couper stears of industries where control is simply essential russia needs more innovations more new technologies which has to be based on a better education and better jobs the country has to stop importing technologies from broader and work on some it's all new ones 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 so these are some of the. ideas put forward by the prime minister in this order go forming the foundation of his electoral program europe is going off reporting they're coming out for you later in the program here on our t.v. cops and occupiers in the city of oakland all for trances of tolerance go out the

window as police bombard road quality activists with gas grenades and jail time. bad data 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 for a tan start as critical greek credit talks drag on our correspondent tess or silly as 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 being called an informal summit and it's not being labeled as a last ditch effort at this time nevertheless the stakes remain a very high especially with regard to the economic social and political stability of certain member states official today are jobs and growth this is very crucial at a time when the average unemployment is at around ten percent even going up as high as twenty three percent and countries like spain it is expected that the seventeen

members of the eurozone may meet after. it hasn't been officially announced but it may be decided upon today of whether the talks among between the seventeen will go ahead and one of the most important topics they need to discuss is that of ongoing negotiations between greece and its creditors has to be a deal where creditors are being asked to write some of the greek take some losses now a deal is crucial here in greece is to get the second tranche of its 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 the government moves to make it harder for them to retire early as well as the flash point of benefits and all of this is part of the government asserted ford to bring down the deficit of the country to. three percent there had been talk prior to today. so it doesn't coincide with

a general strike but after all. all of these are indeed happening today. tests are still your reporting there and if you missed any of our stories and don't hesitate . here's a taste of what's there for you today it's one thing to admire architecture but this woman has taken her one step further. building. pots and giant israeli super drone crashes joining test flight find out what caused the largest unmanned aircraft in the country's arsenal to go down.

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feed now in the palm of your. question. welcome back you're with r.t.l. the mayor of oakland has asked courts to throw any occupy activists with a record of protests arrests out of the city her demand falls one of the most dramatic climb down. on the movement in its history more than four hundred people were arrested when that what began as a peaceful rally against inequality and police brutality. riot clad cops jumped into action firing volumes of tear gas flash grenades at protests are hiding behind makeshift barriers bearing peace symbols dozens of people were injured including three police officers after demonstrators began throwing rocks at the police but 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 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 are very successful in drawing attention to that again and again the media tries to bait this occupy movement as being violent 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. and now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world his story talks between the u.s. and the taliban have reportedly begun in qatar we 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 qatar from pakistan which had allegedly halted previous attempts at such talks the afghan government which is directly involved in the process says it's 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 close as a lot of speakers at the rally called for an apparent u.s. foreign policy and vowed to stage further protests if any attempt to open the channels as many border checkpoints stop supplies for nato troops in afghanistan last year following an airstrike which killed twenty four pakistani troops. ten people have been killed and eighteen 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 reduced visibility on the road vehicles were

involved in the accident with some of them bursting into flames the wreckage covering almost a mile of the highway. well looks like we're up to date let's he was having a world of business natasha is here with us. almost twenty two minutes past eleven am due watching business r.t. the world's largest element in producer ruffalo is cutting production for the first time since the crisis of two thousand and eight the company's c.e.o. and dr pasko told bloomberg the output may be lowered by six percent within a year and a half through solid rivals such as old coal and rio tinto are also decreasing production after the price slump through sol may close some of its inefficient production lines speaking exclusively to business or teeter posco said he expects the prices to remain pretty weak for the first half of the year. we don't expect.

you know significant improvement in next six months in the. not. very bullish but optimistic for the second for the year but it's a moment some of this market is quite stable course we come over. in the positive transformation you know improvement do you see the slowdown in europe but in general it's the. bushes innovation help skolkovo is welcoming its first stress that at its last november its management picked fifteen projects out of more than fifteen hundred applicants giving them free offices and one hundred fifty thousand dollars on startup capital school couples head victor outlines 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 let's now take a look at the markets oil first and it's losing value traders a cautious ahead of the european summit in brussels late on monday even tensions with iran fail to support the oil price iran's deputy oil minister said the crude could reach one hundred fifty dollars a barrel if the e.u. embargo the country's exports comes a divorce in july the sour the hundred ninety nine dollars a barrel brand has slipped under one hundred eleven dollars. and now on to equities asia started the week with losses from many in mainland china on monday's the first day back after the lunar new year holiday and musters was disappointed with continued tight monetary and fiscal policy in china and exporters are suffering from a stronger yes to autos down almost one percent and hong kong the hang seng is shedding one and or

a percent. and here in moscow the markets are shedding value in the second hour of trade in sympathy with asia the r.t.s. is down around half a percent the my six is losing just a notch. and now on to the biggest movers on the my sex most energy majors are in the red with gals from losing point two percent and banking stocks are mixed their bank is half a percent down while the t.v. is slightly higher. and now the currency rates are lower oil prices awaiting on the ruble it's losing both against the dollar and the euro and the euro is retreating against the dollar head of the euro zone summit. despite monday's apparent pessimism the week could bring games to the equity markets do. says overall to saturn it could be quite awesome. even with the correction i think the market will still see some sector shift 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 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 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. a foreign investor is coming to russia's overall milk production one of the world's largest agricultural commodity traders all long and a local milk producer who small local will jointly invest up to five hundred million dollars in the industry but a misty daily reports the two companies plan to build new farms which will be able

to produce three hundred thousand tons of milk a here. and that's all the latest from the business desk i'll be back in about fifteen minutes i'll see about.

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one of the philadelphia horns over streets. until about a hopefully we will never have to use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared the full class including the teacher as it was. seventeen students. and one of seven or still alive. ok back to are with r t here's a look at the top stories iran warns of ban on oil sales to some e.u. countries is still possible as a group of top u.n. nuclear inspectors started their three day mission in the islamic republic. dark clouds of war are looming over the syrian capital was heavy artillery fire heard on

the outskirts and government tanks witnessed on the streets. back to brussels for e.u. leaders as a bloc rattled by debt crises seeks to fasten each member nation with a spending seat belt. prime minister put who gets down to business and comes up with russia's mood. in the latest article to back up his presidential bid. for the top stories here on r.t. up next we have more discussion on our top story in our debate show cross talk as clouds keep gathering over iran peter lavelle's guest discusses were the own going war of threats and sanctions may lead. some bushes to a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and.