hands to iran's alleged nuclear weapons program meanwhile a high profile group of i spect there is have begun their three day mission to examine iran's nuclear activities iran says the talks were an atomic body officials first and such a level in more than three years will prove its nuclear ambitions are peaceful professor side mohammad marandi from the university have to ron says the i.a.e.a. visit will not change the west's hardline approach towards iran. 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. 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. where america beats the drums of war over iran to 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 anti iran rhetoric in front of america's influential jewish community are just more important explains. america almost never misses an opportunity to trace its ally ironclad commitment and i mean ironclad to israel's security has meant the closest military cooperation between our two countries in history but this 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 iraq 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. you know you either politically or literally i think that. our

experience of the american president and all money. is the largest. group in the united states it is the kingmaker in. 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 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 clear i want to have israel. very close and that. 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. party new york. going western attempts to corner iran and what iran is doing in response or both tackled in. that's coming up at eleven thirty am g.m.t. and here's a taste of what's ahead. long already made me want to bring the hidden even out of a well by doing something spectacular and destructive to enemies of islam and this is what motivates him right you this is the guy's not of the old soviet leadership who for all their misdeeds were at least atheists so they believed in. nuclear war

and death was an end in failure and many thinks 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 war when he says he doesn't and you could be in the nuclear and he wants to wipe out israel which is a lot for a country that has been attacked anybody should not be only dropped 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 his kind of. rhetoric to get reelected he doesn't need now the people you know want to judge them by a few minutes when i saw this interesting to me. syrian troops backed by tanks and have young a nation 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 r.t. sara first reports from the syrian capital. well a 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 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 and now was interesting was when that decision was made for the gulf states to withdraw their monitors one of the observers sides i was speaking to you had hinted that perhaps the rest of them would would follow in its things 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 the resolution through dialogue there's a lot of people here saying what was the point in 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 it always essentially were going to lead to a un. action anyway we've got harassed the call do you know you've got our being all these areas around the capital that have seen increasing conflicts and there were really serious reports about the violence happening in those areas and very very concerning because the area where we were sacked by you've got a huge number of civilian people still on the ground that he's lives and i'm very very serious danger with this as collating situation. so first reporting there as there 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 in her latest tweet she says observers compare the or fact finding mission to tom and jerry as a trace of the breast 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. and still to come in the program fixing faulty brakes on the go for european leaders it's back to brussels as the evening rattled by the euro crisis laborers to install expanding seatbelt for the blocks debt ridden economy. and the orderly sits down with the taliban with hopes for peace talks after over a decade of conflict in afghanistan up more nails on the story in just. the mayor of auckland's has asked courts to throw any occupy activist with a record of protest and arrests out of the city her demand follows one of the most dramatic clampdowns on the movement in its history more than four hundred people were arrested when what began as

a peaceful rally against inequality and police brutality turned rough. jumped into action firing volleys of tear gas and flash grenades epitaphs or is hiding behind makeshift barriers bearing peace symbols firsthand accounts say that police were carrying lists of demonstrators with which they used to arrest the tannins serf lauder's from the international action center believes an occupying movement is like an alarm clock or a dying american dream. it's very much achieving its goals in terms of waking up the youth in the us waking. 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're very successful in drawing attention to that again and again the media tries to base this on as being biased 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. and as a fallout from those clashes and. keep up with all the latest developments on twitter. mostly volume as in california with. there you'll find the latest from around the world with breaking news and developing stories all that is that are. baghdad to stare at and fresh ammunition for you are. the main themes coming up in

today's summit in brussels but the meeting the first such this year is for a start as critical greek talks grandaunt. has more from brussels. the leaders of the twenty seven member states of the european union are meeting today for the first summit of twenty it's always been called an informal summit and it's not being labeled as a last ditch effort at this time nevertheless of the stakes remain a very high especially with regard to the economic social and political stability of certain member states official key words for 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 in countries like spain it is expected that the seventeen members of the eurozone area may need. 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 that there has to be a deal where the creditors are being asked to write down some of the greek debt take some losses now a deal is crucial here if greece is to get this. money just added to the mix of what's happening today belgium is holding a general strike the ball both be a private and public sector are there people are going out to protest against the government moves to make it harder for them to retire early as well is this one of the benefits of all of this as part of the government asserted put forward to bring down the deficit of the country too with the limits of three per cent there had been talk prior to today to reschedule the e.u. summit so it doesn't coincide with a general strike but after all that said and done all of these are indeed happening today. are still you reporting there now if you missed any of our stories don't

hesitate to log on to our website our team has a taste of what's there with you. it's one thing to admire architecture but this woman has taken her appreciation of one step further as she prepares to bury a century old building. blocks a giant israeli super car crashes during test flights find out what caused the largest manned aircraft in the country's arsenal to go down at. historic talks between the us and the taliban have reportedly been. discussing trust building measures including a possible transfer of prisoners from guantanamo bay to pakistan who previously swore to the tams such talks as now let's taliban leaders pass safely through its

territory to qatar and how they. think tank new world strategies coalition thanks. realizes that only through negotiation and to get us to leave the region. i really. should be. national community at the same time to islamabad must have come up with an idea that look i really think the only way that we can get americans out of afghanistan it would be to talk with them and once you assure we assure the american. this is. everything will be fine and this is the way out. i believe that americans believe and then we can all be back to back to normal that whatever they want to extend imposed on afghanistan. now is take a look at some other stories from around the world while thousands of people have gathered in central pakistan to demand supply routes used by nato forces in afghanistan are kept closed as long as speakers at the rally called for in the

panels from u.s. foreign policy invalid to stage further protests if any attempt to open the channels has made border checkpoints stop supplies for nato troops in afghanistan last year a fall we have strike which killed twenty four pakistani troops. tam 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 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 off the highway. revision of russia's economic priorities that's what prime minister and presidential hopeful want to report and sees as one of the main tasks if regains the top job a fresh bottle of ideas now with an economic tent comes in third pre-election article published in one of russia's major newspapers are just going off summed up

the main point. according to prime minister putin the world is currently witnessing a very interesting time when the global economic crisis has led to a reorganization of power with some traditional fever stepping down and new players gaining more into. and the prime minister says russia has all the chances to secure a place on the leaders of course are problems and one of the main one is russia's dependency on natural resources leads to poor labor efficiency outdated technologies and a lack of competitiveness in other years 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 from the service sector to the farming industry but it's not an easy task since russia is a huge country with diverse climates and big population these aren't really tast

for the next several months but for the next several years for the prime minister to 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 chemical industries. 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 steel 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 key ideas put forward by the prime minister in this order forming the foundation of his program. europe is going off reporting there and for more on the story we're crossing our business desk here. almost twenty two minutes past one pm here in moscow you with business aren't cheap as we've just been hearing vladimir putin has outlined the changes he thinks need to be made to the russian economy putin recognizes the need to diversify away from raw materials reduce the control over business and improve the investment climate to discuss the issues i'm now joined by yvonne carr of cheese on mr bush and the cia run a son's capital yvonne thanks a lot for joining is what putin proposing any different to what we've been seeing so far i would say that these are not. fundamentally new things that putin is

proposing however at the same time i would argue for the very first time we're hearing such lofty goals at the very high level we should remember that this is the second very important speech that putin has delivered on the economy over the last two weeks he. started with a speech on twenty second of december when he said that the potential growth of the russian economy should be raised to sixty one percent and this is the second major speech i think it's a very important one of course it is very rich on the retore the key question for us is whether it will be rich on implementation well good putin calls for improving the investment climate and he cites kazakhstan as an example do you consider that a success model and if so why that's a very very important question i think we should distinguish between kazakhstan in terms of a model for political development in kazakhstan in terms of the kind of economic growth rates with. obviously on the former i don't think that kazakhstan should

serve as a good example on the let there maybe more so however i would also offer the experience of another neighboring country that has achieved a lot in recent years in terms of improving overall business climate indices georgia has made tremendous strides in terms of improving overall business. so in that in my opinion georgia should be accountable for the much more. than well for years foreigners viewed putin's regime as a stability factor do you think that's still the case or does he now represent stagnation from any. i don't thing that putin represents a stagnation a den of the day all foreign businesses look for stability when they make a judgment in terms of which country to go would like to invest into and i think that if putin in his should assume that he comes back as a president if he somehow manages. to introduce some cautious changes in the

political environment and at the same time ensuring that the country continues to grow at four or five percent every year i think this will be an environment that many foreign businesses will be comfortable with you mentioned done. because one thing but implementation is something different how do you think these ideas will be implemented actually i would think that they'll be strong economic and political economy incentives for put in turn as a president to be to be much much more if formally entered and much more proactive in introducing and implementing these kind of reforms this is an idea that we've been trying to advance year to in essence capital the fact that before the global recession the big recession of two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine russia was a country that was running significant. losses on the current account on the fiscal accounts this is a totally different situation right now russia is already running significant fiscal deficits based on our estimates into three years' time russia will start

running current account deficits these deficits will need to be financed somehow therefore it is imperative for drug an economy to change and i think of putting understands that i think that he would like to ensure that russia's image as an. investment destination is changed a little bit and i think there are enough incentives for us to assume that you might be a little bit more broad informal in his third term as a president of course if he if he wins their elections and one last question real quick you mentioned that he called for boosting g.d.p. growth to seven percent any practical steps in the article for achieving that goal well first of all i don't think that achieving a potential growth of six percent is realistic in our view a four five percent economic growth over the last five years is something that is probably more reasonable i think that he does come up with a number of things that my due help food achieving that objective the single most

important of them the single most important one of them is increasing the investment to g.d.p. ratio in the russian economy to around twenty five twenty six percent and the current level is very low it's about twenty percent is very low by emerging market standards already even say it's kind of low by developed economy standards so putin says you should be increasing the investment to gracious to twenty five thousand to six percent i think this is really going to be the key in ensuring that russia achieves a sustainable medium term economic growth thank you so much for joining. us of chief economist for russia and cia asset renascence capital in moscow. and now let's take a look at the markets oil first and it's losing value traders the cautious ahead of the european union summit in brussels later on monday power even tensions with iran failed to support the oil price iran's deputy oil minister said the crude could reach one hundred fifty dollars per barrel if the e.u.

embargo country's exports comes into force on july the sour that is that under ninety nine dollars a barrel brand is topping one hundred and eleven dollars an hour into equities european bourses of failing to withstand the pressure ahead of the e.u. summit greece is likely to be in the spotlight the officials are trying to reach a deal with prime. the bondholders now at this hour the footsie is shedding three quarters of a percent the dax is under one percent lower and here in moscow the markets are shedding value in sympathy with global indices a little while is also adding to the pressure the r.t.s. is now down the want to third of a percent the my six is losing just under one percent and the biggest movers on the my six most financials are in the red was their bank losing more than one percent and energy majors a mix gazprom is point six percent down lukoil is slightly up. and to the currency rates lower oil prices a weighing on the ruble it's losing against both the dollar and the euro and the

euro is retreating against the dollar ahead of the euro zone summits. and that's all the latest from the business desk i'll be back in about fifteen minutes.

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heard on the outskirts and government tanks witnessed on the streets. cops and occupiers in the city of oakland all notions of tolerance go out the window as police bombard the activist with the names of rubber bullets and jail time. and prime minister putin gets down to business and comes up with russia's new economic layout in the latest article to back his presidential bid. for the top stories up next we'll take you beyond the arctic circle to tiny village that has to withstand relentless sandstorms which mysteriously appear there are some fifty years ago solve the riddle together with our special report. on these way to work every day. by the homes of his neighbors' houses and the remains of.