this is considered one of the big back to points between the city center and the suburbs people areas like harassed and i believe that have been the seeds of this fighting a for the weekend along with a number of other suburbs doesn't the forces have to retake control of areas that have to rebel forces no people here in the city who waking up yesterday morning sounds of gunfire and shelling from many of these areas the images is the right thing for instance the suburbs and tanks rolling into the street in scenes that were described as urban warfare that streak concerning this comes on the back of the arab league monitoring mission poll saying it's the 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the time being they haven't really seen to recover from the decision earlier last week that the goal statement is to be withdrawn the arab league and now taking their proposal for a political transition to the u.n. the backing but it seems to be in the interest of the government have really been

trying to quell the uprising this is carried so close to the sense that now the government has been taking that they're fighting armed forces of course you do have these two weeks now as the uprisings continued we've seen this quote they think to get the place to do the searches need to be on the scene. to bring this to the president to start this thursday extremely concerned since its mission is being hosted to see the escalation in violence so close to the capital. or to sort of further reporting right that she is also helping you keep track of the syrian conflict and up to the minute with all developments in the country her story as we can see here and what some of the latest tweets she says of observers compare their fact finding mission to that of tom and jerry as they trace the on the rest unsuccessfully all over the country that's how they explain the difficulty in trying to get an accurate perspective on the.

it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today tehran's plans to halt oil exports to some e.u. countries are still alive this according to the iran's to the country's oil minister well that's despite the country's parliament temporarily perspire winning the debate on a possible cut of crude supplies tehran 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 is 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 activities tehran says the talks with the u.n. atomic body officials the first on such

a level in more than three years i will prove its nuclear ambitions a peaceful now professor mohammad marandi from the university of tehran says the i.a.e.a. visit will not change the west's hardline approach to iran. the 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 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's independence and sovereignty. meantime russia's foreign minister says that iran's potential bill to hold toil supplies to some european countries is a logical response so the use that and sanctions. you russia has firmly held the opinion that in most cases sanctions are not only effective 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 even 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 shy when it comes to voicing their anti iran rhetoric in front of america's influential

jew which community as it is marina portnoy reports. 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. however for many american jews and israeli supporters barack obama's war of words against tehran doesn't go far enough it's none of the simply states i'm committed to israel security you have to promote policies that commit you to 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 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 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 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 kill you either politically or literally i think that it. serious threat to our experience the american president and money. is the largest. group in the united states it is the king maker 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 not only 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. the ongoing western attempts to corner iran and what iran is doing in response are both issues tackled cross talk

today coming your way in about twenty minutes time here's a taste of what. mahmoud even wants 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 this is a crisis not of the old soviet leadership who for all their misdeeds were at least atheist 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 carrot can you offer him to compare with us so you have to be prepared to stop his military efforts if he says i'm going to i don't know when he says he doesn't and you can evolve why did you marry him he was leaving out he wants to wipe out israel which is what for a country that has been attacked by anybody or should not be only dropped 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 even if it is kind of information and rhetoric to get reelected he being he is

a need now the people you know how did you know then like you are going to be nice to moderate if you get this interesting to me. to stay with us across talk at half past the hour here on ars he still to come on the program fixing the faulty brakes on the go for european leaders is brussels as the new ruffled by the euro crisis labour's to install a spending seat belt for the blocs britain economy. and the us report will be sits down with the taliban with hopes for peace talks after over a decade of conflict in afghanistan we've got more analysis on this story in just a few minutes. the mayor of oakland has asked courts to throw any occupy activists with a record of protest there were. out of the city demand follows one of the most dramatic clampdowns on the movement in its history more than four hundred were

arrested when what began as a peaceful rally against inequality police brutality turned rough ride hope jumped into action firing volleys of tear gas and flash grenades at protesters hiding behind makeshift barriers bearing peace symbols first time accounts say that police were carrying lists of demonstrators with them which they use to arrest attendance certified as 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 of 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 the fallout from those clashes in oakland continues to be counted you can find the latest pictures from california and other occupy events our you tube channel just uploaded. a video of an occupy movement activist being tasered in his pajamas legibly tearing down police flyers at a washington d.c. park and his story and many others as well all of our you tube channel that is a you tube.

these are the images. from the street. today. just not only quarter past the hour here in the russian capital debt austerity and fresh ammunition for europe's bailout fund are the main themes coming up in today's e.u. summit in brussels but the meeting the first of its kind this year is set for a tense start and it's critical greek credit talks drag on our correspondent reports from brussels. leaders of the twenty seven member states of the european union are meeting today for the first summit twenty was being called an informal summit. this nevertheless of the states remains very high especially with regard to the economic social and political stability of certain member states official. our jobs and growth this is very crucial at

a time when the average unemployment is at around ten percent even. twenty three percent in countries like spain it is expected that the seventeen members of the 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 but one of the most important topics they need to discuss is that. between greece and its creditors has to be a deal where. some of the greek take some losses is crucial 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 and all of this is part.

of. the talk prior to today. doesn't coincide with. all but all of these are indeed happening today. reporting if you've missed. what's waiting. for this woman has taken her. mary 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 those details at r.t. dot com.

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 thwarted attempts at such talks has now led taliban leaders passed safely through its territory to qatar and to kill nuri from the think tank new world strategies coalition things islam about now realize that only tough negotiation can 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 would be to talk with them in once you're sure we assure the american dad disses if you will be fine and this

is the way out. i believe that there are americans believe and then we can all be back to back to normal that whatever they want to expand impose on of on afghanistan are before we get to natasha with a business that's check out the r.t. world update for you some other international headlines in brief thousands of people have gathered in central pakistan to demand supply routes used by nato forces in afghanistan kept closed islamist speakers at the rally called independence from us foreign policy and battle stage further protests if any attempt to open the channels may 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 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 multiple

vehicles were involved in the accident with some of them bursting into flames left wreckage covering almost one mile of the highway. well revision over russia's economic priorities that's what prime minister and presidential hopeful vladimir putin sees as one of the main tasks if he regains that top job a fresh bottle of ideas now with an economic tense comes in his third pre-election article published in one of russia's major newspapers got a list going off summed up all 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 and 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 or more 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 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 steers besides energy projects 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 climate and big population these aren't really tast for the next several months but for the next several years the prime minister's also set off for coup or industries which have to be developed they include the traditional space exploration and nuclear energy there's also all 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 abroad and work on some with 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 the sort of go forming the foundation of his program. natasha is here now with the business. twenty two minutes past three pm in a mosque you're watching business r.t.

as we have just been hearing lies in there 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 that control over business and improve the investment climate earlier i spoke to ivanchuk car over at renaissance capital he told me that while the new ideas are not new they are still relevant. these are not. fundamentally new things that putin is proposing however at the same time i would argue the. very first time we're hearing of such lofty goals at a very high level we should remember that this is the second very important speech the region 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 rhetorical the key question

for us is whether it will be reach an implementation you mentioned on rhetoric is one thing but implementation is something different how do you think these ideas will be implemented i actually think that they'll be strong moch economic and political economy incentives for put in should he return as a president to be much more reform of the answer and much more proactive in a in introducing and implementing this kind of reforms this is an idea to been trying to advance here at an essence capital russia's 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's easy really it to be imperative for direction 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 broadly formally entered in historic terms as

a president of course if he if he wins the election. and as article put in writes the russian economy needs a new wave of industrialization and industrial holdings should be created to boost competitiveness the chairman of russia's institute for contemporary development says for this to work russia first needs to reform trade unions to decrease unions at the moment is as bureaucratic as the orient that. is that was in the soviet union so. democratically elected. board in the coming together. attacking the situation as a brainstorm save session liberalization. revolution and regulation. there are the bare minimum. and it's time now to look at the markets oil first

it's losing value traders are cautious ahead of the european union summit in brussels late on monday even tensions with iran failed 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 on the country's exports continues comes into force in july this hour topping ninety nine dollars a barrel brand is a one hundred eleven and who are. now on to equities europe first european bourses a failing to withstand the pressure ahead of the e.u. meeting greece is likely to be in the spotlight the officials they are trying to reach a deal with private bondholders the soured the footsie is shedding two thirds of a percent the dax is half a percent lower. care in moscow the markets are also shedding value the sour and sympathy with global indices lower oil is adding to the pressure the r.t.s. is down around one percent this hour the my six is losing three quarters of

a percent. and now the biggest movers on the my sex most financials are in the red but burbank losing around one of a third of a percent energy majors the next gazprom is less than half of a percent down while loop oil is painting the pressure. around two percent. and now on to the currency rates a lower oil prices are weighing on the ruble it's losing gets the dollar and the euro and the euro is retreating against the dollar head of the euro zone summit. now a busy. this r t exclusive posco the owner of the world's biggest alimony and producer who solomon one of russia's richest man predicts the first half of the year could be tough for his business he sees commodity prices remaining stable with growth only coming in the sack second half the year. we don't expect you know in

a significant improvement the next six months in the we are not in the very bullish but optimistic for the second part the year but it's a moment some of this market is quite stable in general course we come over. in the positive transformation in the improvement to see the slowdown in the euro but in general it's the. and you can see the full version of that interview with i like their pos car on our website at r.t. dot com slash business not so latest from the business team the sour will be back in about fifteen minutes.

critique three. three. three. three. three. video for your media project free media. headlines now. war over the syrian capital with heavy artillery fire on the outskirts government witnessed on the streets. iran warns a ban on oil sales to countries is still possible as a group of top u.n.

nuclear inspectors. in the city of oakland told notions of tolerance to go out the window as police. time. also prime minister putin gets down to business sun comes up with russia's new economic in the latest article to back his presidential. right now in just a moment here in our tempers flare and accusations fly and what's next for iran with western navy warships loitering on its border and nuclear inspectors touring its facilities crosstalk in just a sec.