this is considered one of the way back to points between the city center and the suburbs people areas like harassed and i mean that have been the seeds of this fighting a for the weekend along with a number of the suburbs doesn't the forces have moved to retake control of areas that have folded to rebel forces people here in the city who waking up yesterday morning sounds of gunfire and shelling from many of these areas the images is rising for instance the suburbs and tanks rolling into the street scenes that were described as. the extreme really concerning this comes on the back of the arab league. poll saying its exact mission here the time being they haven't really seen to recover from the decision earlier last week that the goal statement is to be withdrawing the arab league and now taking their proposal for a political transition to the u.n. . but it seems that way in the interest of the government have really been trying

to quell the uprising this is carried so close to the sense that the government is helping take the fighting arms forces of course you do have these beliefs now as the uprisings continued we've seen this come they think again the closer to the thirty's you feel the need to tournaments to bring this to the president to start this thursday extremely concerned a since its mission is being hosted to see the escalation in violence too close to the capital how do you surface right there and she is also helping you keep track of the syrian conflict and stay up to the minute with all developments in the country via twitter stream of someone here and one of the latest tweets here are she says observers compare their fact finding mission to tom and jerry they traced the unrest unsuccessfully all around the country that's how they explain the difficulty in trying to get an accurate perspective. on the situation ongoing in

certain areas. it's good to have you with us here on our t.v. today. plans to halt or oil exports to some e.u. countries are still alive that's according to iran's oil minister was despite the country's parliament temporarily passed spawning the debate on a possible cut of crude supplies to ron 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.a.e.a. inspectors have begun their three day mission to examine iran's nuclear facilities tehran says the talks with the u.n.

atomic body officials the first on such a level in more than three years will prove its nuclear ambitions are peaceful professor 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 i.a.e.a. a currently has full time monitors in iran in 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. is he owes his job to the. it states if you look at the wiki leaks documents the

united states and the europeans are basically gauging an act of war against the iranian people as the real issue is not the nuclear program it is iran's independence and sovereignty. and russia's foreign minister says that iran's potential bail to hold all supplies to some european countries is a logical response to the e.u. is dead on sanctions. russia has firmly held the opinion that in most cases sanctions are not only ineffective but also counterproductive the current situation yet again confirms the old war to every action there is an equal reaction iran's announcement was made in response to the european union's decision to ban the purchasing of iranian oil by either member states. when america beats the drums of war over iran it may not always be driven by the islamic states nuclear intentions would be us presidential candidates on not shy when it comes to voicing their and see iran rhetoric in front of america's influential jewish community sees

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'd 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 tehran doesn't go far no sign of the simply state i'm committed to israel security you have to promote policies that commit 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 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. 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 you know politically or literally i think that it was a serious threat. seriously the american president and the money. is the largest singularly more just watching the united states the kingmaker in. the american israel public affairs committee known as a pac declined artie's requests 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 the 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. me on. the ongoing western attempts to corner iran and what iran is doing in

response to both issues being talk old in today's edition of a cross talk with peter lavelle that's coming up next hour here on for now though a taste of what's ahead. wants to bring the hidden even out of the well by doing something spectacular and destructive to enemies of islam and this is what motivates this surprise not like 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 allaah will get him to paradise what incentive do you have to bring to bear on him what camera can you offer him to compare with so you have to be prepared to stop his military efforts if he says i'm going to go and he says he doesn't and you can bomb why did you let me in the helium you know he wants to wipe out israel which is what for a country that had to have attacked anybody or should not be only talk 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 now the people you know how do you know them like you are going to be nice to moderate and you begin to say interesting to me. to stay with us for crosstalk later on still to come on the program here fixing the faulty brakes on the go for european leaders that's brussels rattled by the euro crisis labor to install a spending seat belt for the books written economy. the u.s. reportedly sits down with the taliban but hopes for peace talks off to a decade of conflict in afghanistan with more analysis on that story in just a few minutes here on. the mayor of oakland has asked the courts to throw out occupy activists with a record of protest arrests about the city demand follows one of the most dramatic

clamps down 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 out getting rough ride cops jump to do action firing volleys of tear gas and flash grenades at protesters hiding behind makeshift barriers bearing symbols first hand accounts so the police were carrying lists of demonstrators with them which they used to arrest attendance sara flounders from the international action center believes the occupy movement is like an alarm clock for a dying american dream. 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 one percent actually

one thousand one percent is gaining a normal 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 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. and as the fallout from those clashes in oakland can tin used to be counted you can find the latest pictures from california and other occupy events on our you tube channel just uploaded there for. a video of an occupy movement activist being tasered in his pajamas for allegedly tearing down police flyers that washington d.c. part. his story and many others all of our you tube channel that's youtube dot com .

these are the images. from the streets of canada. operations. quarter past the hour here in moscow bad debt austerity and fresh for europe's bailout fund are the main themes coming up. in brussels but the meeting the first such this year is set for a tense start as critical greek credit talks drag on our correspondent. has more from brussels. leaders of the twenty seven member states of the european union are meeting today for the first summit. this nevertheless of the states 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 painful 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 may need after. it hasn't been officially. decided upon today of whether the talks among the seventeen will go ahead and one of the most important topics to discuss is that. between greece and its creditors has to be a deal where. some of the greek losses is crucial here if greece is to get the. money out into the mix of what's happening today. people are going out to

protest against government moves to make it harder to retire early as well as the. benefits of all of this is part of the. put forward to bring down the deficit. limits of three percent. prior to today. so it doesn't coincide with. all but all of these are indeed happening today. so you. know. it's one thing to have. mari a century old building. plus a giant israeli drone crashes during a test flight find out what caused the largest unmanned aircraft in the country's

arsenal to go down all that artsy dot com. now eight minutes time it's the business but for now a historic talks between the u.s. and the taliban have reportedly begun in cutter they are discussing trust building measures including a possible transfer of prisoners from guantanamo bay pakistan who previously thought of attempts at such talks as now let taliban leaders pass safely through its territory to qatar and nuri from the think tank new world strategies coalition i think there's a lot of art now realizes that only through negotiation can it get the u.s. to leave the region i really think that slobo has been pressured by the international community is a symptom 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 will be to talk with them and once you are sure we assure americans disses if you will be fine and this is the way out there i believe that americans will leave and then we can all be back to back to normal that whatever that they want to expose imposed on of on afghanistan. ok let's take a moment here and i'll see to check out some other stories making headlines around the world for you in brief thousands of people have gathered in central pakistan to demand supply routes used by nato forces in afghanistan are kept closed is the most speakers at the rally called for independence from us foreign policy stage for the protest if any attempt to open the channels is made border checkpoints stopped supplies for nato troops in afghanistan late last year following an airstrike which killed twenty four pakistani troops. ten people have been killed and injured in

a highway crash in florida it happened in the early hours of the morning off the smoke from a nearby brushfire combined with reduced visibility on the road a multiple vehicles were involved in the accident with some of them bursting into flames leaving wreckage covering almost one mile of the highway. but were vision over russia's economic priorities that's what prime minister and presidential hopeful vladimir putin sees as one of the main tasks if he needs to if he can in that way regain the top job fresh bottle of ideas now with an economic tent comes in his third pre-election article published in one of russia's major newspapers a lot of his 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 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 mean one is russia's dependency on natural resources leads to poor labor 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 steers 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 a 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 steers 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 own 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 go forming the foundation of his electoral program.

you go to preschool reporting ok well as i promised natasha joins us next with latest business update. hello welcome to the business program on our t.v. as we've just been hearing women 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 of her business and improve the investment climate earlier i spoke to yvonne carr of capital he told me that while the ideas were not new they were still relevant. 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 authorities the key question for us is whether it will be on implementation you mentioned that rhetoric is one thing but implementation is something different how do you think these ideas will be implemented i actually think that there will be strong market economics and political economy incentives for put in should he return as the president to be to be much much more informal the end to a much more proactive in a introducing and implementing this kind of reforms this is an idea that we've been trying to advance here actually has since capital russia is already running a significant fiscal deficit based on our estimates in two thousand. time russia will start driving kind of the town deficits these deficits will need to be financed somehow therefore. it will be imperative for drudging economy to change

and i think that 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 again i think there are enough incentives for us to assume that he might be a little bit more broad form oriented in historic terms as a president of course if he if he wins their elections. and let's now check out the markets oil first down it's losing value traders are cautious ahead of the european union summit in brussels late on monday even tensions with the wrong feel 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 into force in july this hour that is under ninety nine dollars a barrel brant is topping one hundred eleven dollars and i want to 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 they are trying to

reach a deal with private bondholders in the first. this hour the footsie is shedding three quarters of a percent the dax is around one percent lower. and here in moscow the markets are shedding value the sour in sympathy with global indices lower oil is also adding to the pressure of the r.t.s. is down more than one percent of my sex is losing three quarters of a percent and now on to the biggest movers on the my sex most financials are in the red with spare bank losing around one and a half percent and energy majors are also retreating gal's promise half a percent down the lukoil has slipped into bread it was gaining earlier in the day now it's down just a notch. and now the currency rates lower oil prices a win on the ruble it's losing against both the dollar. and the euro and the euro itself is retreating against the dollar ahead of the euro zone. and now

a business r.t. exclusive like dr pasko the owner of the world's biggest alimony and producer was sol and one of russia's richest men predicts the first half of the year could be tough for his business he sees commodity prices remain stable but he doesn't think there will be growth until the second house. we don't expect you know in a significant improvement the next six months in the we're. not in the very bullish but optimistic for the second part of the year but it's a moment come of this market is quite stable engine of course we can say we're. in the positive transformation in the improvement to see the slowdown in the euro but in general it's the. and speaking about the other risks to the business performance hogs are possibly expressed concern about upcoming political changes in russia that taken is getting ready for a transition period so there are institutions government so agencies and you know

always signal do we solve problems not just in case it's happening we have a transition period government will be in the fact of maybe the from the oldest and simpleton simplicity of go and perform involves service that we still have ongoing process of adjusting all russian situation to the new w two rules and regulations from foreign trade to europe european demand in the care and see in the price in the in the priority there is a busier and of course in the center. and that's all the latest from the business team all the dots about that.

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if you are just joining us a very warm welcome to. the headlines now. clouds of war looming over the syrian capital with heavy artillery fire. government tanks witnessed on the streets . of iran a war on oil sales to some countries is still possible as a group of top u.n.

nuclear inspectors start their three day mission the islamic group. called occupiers in the city of oakland all notions of tolerance go out the window as police. activists with. jail time. also prime minister putin gets down to business comes up with a new economic layout in his latest article is presidential bid. next as iran embraces itself to face the effect of fresh western impose sanctions we sit down with this interior minister to ask how the current standstill is influencing affairs inside the country you're watching. the possibility of war between.