you know i want to jump in like you are going to go nicer are you because it is interesting to me go ahead john jump in no because i thought i understood you as an obvious lesson obvious why he would a law i oppose working on nuclear weapons until he has them even a ten year old child can figure that out he obviously wants to destroy issue when he was mayor of toronto and you think that he's lying a lot of times you sure of the law and you know it is not me saying it for domestic consumption it doesn't you know just who is going to win is not even charge of the military you know in charge and you know his predecessor as president also said well what you want to do this is what you want to do and when they launch you want to use well you have no go to sleep until they've got them ready you have to be an idiot to fall for that ok. you want to follow if you want to use the propaganda tool if you if you want to use the propaganda to cause threatening remarks about a country learn about it find out more about it you have never been to iran you don't speak farsi you don't even know the cook the safeguard agreement or iran we deny the mission you cannot just open your mouth and say whatever you want when you

haven't even studied the country isn't that responsible if you go teach a course you don't know how to teach it how can you talk about it if you and other people like you decide to talk about iran and attacking iran find out more about it learn study it read about comprehensive here already agreement and i'm forty five pages not only you haven't read it i think many of the republican candidates haven't read it and they keep talking about it they don't even know what they're talking about spend time learning and then attack i think that's the best way john do you want one reply to that or we'll move on may i make the comment going to jump in there go ahead. well the relation between the oil and iran's nuclear program all of this story is out of all of the nuclear program the question is there is a flow in the odd of humans of the united states european union and the global community about the. iran's you know if you had

a weapon why the pressure on iran at a time when is that india bucks and or could also have nuclear weapons before you put pressure on the air you will have to even stand that it's not stand that is before you put pressure on iran then try to paris who it is that to relinquish its nuclear weapons or india or pakistan or not so we are talking here about the nuclear program. here on needs and you hear out of power for alec that it's a generation to be able to say of oil for export about a wise it will be. needed and why another exporter of oil but the iranians are not a verse to getting nuclear weapons so the question is if you put pressure on iran

put b.c.m. by sharon is iran and in the arrow bunch of north and then you can tilt ok i go back to john in our way here one of the things i think is really dangerous here and on both sides ok is the ratcheting up of rhetoric because when certain politicians and countries say that you know this is a red line you know if you go over this annoying and both sides are doing the revolutionary guards ok also saying that in iran again i'm going back to you know the ratcheting up of tension here now made i think so there's a certain point where we can keep it simmering i'm very dubious about that because there is absolutely no goodwill between the united states and iran we could have a tipping point here in the rhetoric that we hear coming out of western countries and out of iran is extremely dangerous. well i mean it depends how you look at it and if you think about dealings with hitler again as a good example if the west set red lines and then didn't inforce them according to our station of the rhineland and eventually they set

a red line they had to defend with poland from a much weaker position than they would have been even a year and a half earlier so when there's a regime you're trying to contain you must not do certain things or does them you take action otherwise you let them do whatever they like and obviously that this is a recipe for getting stomped so yeah i would prefer to avoid war but there are things worse than war ok i mean nato are what countries around planning to invade if we use the hitler example. there is no comparing iran with hitler it's this honest to the loss of millions of jews who is not is a holocaust and is going to starve themselves how are you a liar this is you have to learn to ours is one of the pro israel again i fear quiet so he can least do. this use of comparison he has been they have been used in israeli government by bibi netanyahu and the individuals like your guest this is wrong this is discrediting all those jews that died in world war two and it's comparing something that is really not comparable he has said negative things about

israel and i think going back to what your guest from london said once you go and criticize israel especially the one you regime then the wrath of the united states will come upon you with all its tools covert all over it sanctions and that's what the problem is that's what the difference between iran and those other countries are none of them have criticized israel and that's the price you pay now i'm not saying good or bad this is the decision that they don't and government has made that is the price you pay because you get at senate approval of a bill with one hundred to zero how often does that happen and of course it was part of the military bill but at the same time it shows that if you fool around and you criticize israel does what you did so they have to deal with it and that's what the problem is it going to what you said peter about how much everyone. i mean as you know hard to push john you want to report that or are saying israel anyway it's a matter of saying they should israel is going to be wiped off the bat that's not criticizing theirs i don't want to shout has denied the holocaust is that pointing

terrorist group problems or as you know who are liable he was not in charge like that governor and gentlemen gentlemen i have no i don't i'm joking here trying to jump in now ok let me say let me if i can go to you in london one of the things that's interesting is the i.m.f. is estimated that if this oil gambit is played out what the european union wants to do and what iran will do in retaliation or even before is that we could see as a thirty percent oil increase in the price of oil going up and i mean in these troubled times is it really worthwhile to do that when we have the eurozone that is tipping into recession obama's chances of pulling off a reelection if the price of gasoline goes up again i mean isn't this a really playing for playing with fire at a very bad time. no it was not a war of playing with fire thought and it was a simple symbolic political decision to stop importing iranian oil it will have no effect on iran on the contrary it will have effect on

the global economy as a whole because that rhetoric could skelly it and we saw today that the price of oil has gone up by one dollar when iran and now says that it will not going to export orders to the european union. think very clearly that if there is any escalation or any sign of rielle escalation i reject the price of oil could go to one fifty or one seventy dollars particularly if iran feels that it will be prevented from selling its all in and it tries to block the street of water was the price could go one fifty to one seventy dollars and who will be the biggest loser it is the united states because it is the biggest you result of oil it imports twelve to fourteen million barrels a day and the second one the global economy as

a whole the global economy is in the area recession the orsa decision says that there is any increase significant increases in the oil price will mean that the global economy will not be able to recover very quickly from the war study a recession it is in now ok john ramos out of time is it's worth trying to negotiate with or you just finish with negotiations or should we still give it a try because the iranians say they want to talk still do you think twenty seconds yeah they said they want to talk but they won't stop working on the nuclear program i think it's time we start building nuclear reactors to lessen our dependence on middle eastern oil brocklebank i just canceled a major pipeline from canada that would have helped america develop energy independence here make plans space mission iranian regime cannot be dealt with except for only right. very interesting discussion thank you very much many thanks my guest today in our london and in irvine and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time and remember cross talk rules. change

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observers into syria killed time in the hotel awaiting further instruction from the arab league as fierce fighting takes more lives all around the capital damascus. iran warns it could stop supplying oil to the e.u. states since response to sanctions against its nuclear program which is currently undergoing a un inspection. broken piece of glass is not the broken heads that the police inflicted on the occupied police heavy handedness against corporate protests in oakland is followed by the californian city's mayor threatening to kick the activists out. and the e.u.

leaders meet in brussels for their first summit this year against the symbolic backdrop of the austerity protests and a general strike in belgium. a very warm welcome from all of us here at r.t. moscow i'm wrong receipt showing syrian forces have reportedly retaken control of suburbs around the capital damascus after intensive battles with rebel fighters more than fifty people many of them civilians now thought have been killed in fighting which is moving ever closer to the to syria's main city that i just a spike in violence came just a day after the arab league froze its observer mission and sarah firth reports from syria. this is considered one of the big thing that thing points between the city

that's are on the suburbs people areas like harassed and are being that it be the seeds of this fighting over the weekend along with a number of the suburbs as government forces have moved to retake control of areas that have folded 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 rising friends of the suburbs and tanks rolling into the street in scenes that were described as. the extreme week inserting this comes on the back of the arab league monitoring mission hole saying it's the said mission here the tie being they haven't really seen sort of the 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. the backing that it thinks they're right 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 think tank that they're 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 new feel listening to the evidence to bring this to the president to start this thursday extremely concerning since this mission is being hosted to see the escalation in violence so you close to the capital. of porting right ahead for you in the program here just over a month before rushers presidential vote on what to me put his hands his pre-election article painted himself as the presidential candidate for widespread economic reform. plus after more than a decade of conflict in afghanistan the taliban and u.s. hold trust building. yet the two sides remain far apart on a one week issue. iran has vowed to halt oil

exports to some countries for up to fifteen years despite its parliament postponing a debate on a complete ban of crude supplies to europe and it would be investigation into the e.u. imposed embargo on iranian oil due to come into effect this summer russia's foreign minister says tehran threat shows how unilateral sanctions can often backfire. 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 uranium oil by even member states meanwhile iran's nuclear program which is the target of e.u. sanctions is now being scrutinized by u.n. inspectors. officials are into iran on

a three day mission which hopes will prove its atomic ambitions a peaceful some experts suggest that western states only want to see airport justifies a military build up in the region. made up of inspectors they don't necessarily control politically but i think what the united states walls is some kind of a state but it's you know which they use in ballast on a balanced way to to sort of lead to the next stage i think what we are witnessing here is is a build. cause of military goals for the day should we have massive the flavors of u.s. military hardware troops going into israel to be satiated israel also going to kuwait. you know naval. naval forces in the in the in the ocean go all of those i will i would describe as why this whole wall the

issue of nuclear weapons. of iran's nuclear weapons is a red herring but it is a red herring which could lead to well as we said are you one america's threatening behavior towards iran may not just be about terence nuclear ambitions this rhetoric has intensified noticeably over the course of the presidential race and i thought is more important explains some politicians of putting political points on the support of the jewish community ahead of the u.s. national interest. america almost never misses an opportunity to praise its ally an ironclad commitment and i mean ironclad to israel's security has meant the closest military cooperation between our two countries in history 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 israel supporters barack obama's war of words against tehran doesn't go far no sign of the simply state i'm committed to israel security you have to promote policies that commit 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. or we are going to go you know politically or literally i think that it was. serious threat. seriously the american president and the money.

congress. is the largest. lobbying group in the united states the king maker 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 exactly banging on much louder war drums 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 clear i want to have 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. at a time when the u.s. bears the burden of a broken economy growing social unrest and ongoing military conflicts starting a war with iran would not be in america's best interest but in order to keep a best friend many believe president obama will be forced to put israel's national security first. r.t. new york that iran for its part seems confident it can withstand the building in international pressure the country's interior minister believes that sanctions will end up hitting the countries who imposed them and not her on this exclusive interview with alex he is coming your way in about twenty minutes time half an hour a preview. i think the way we're doing it is. i believe they've made a big mistake as this action results in turbulence for the oil and energy market this very fact it can result in oil price growth in these conditions the west

student spec the drop in the euro rate and the euro market this new decision will result in further economic problems which as we can see the thick to the majority and so far they've been unable to find solutions with the decisions taken today by the west unilaterally will result in the escalation of the economic problems. it is just after ten minutes past the hour here in moscow after surveying the damage from saturday's occupy protests in oakland california the mayor wants to kick activists out of the city the latest demonstration ended with a riot police firing tear gas and flash bombs first on account suggest police were carrying so demonstrators to arrest just earlier this month a court appointed monitor told a federal judge she had serious concern about that apartment building your reply protests sara flounders from the international action center believes the damage

done by protesters pales in comparison to the brutality of police. it's very much achieving its goals in terms of waking up the youths and 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 one percent actually one thousand some one percent is gaining a normal new wealth so that there 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 i can see actions of excessive force by police in the us been well

documented since the occupy movement began now and more than five months ago and there's proof on our website here in washington a seemingly innocent protester is a corralled by police and tasered dozens of fellow occupiers look on this video and many others are all of our you tube channel that is you tube dot com. you see. these are the images. from the streets of. giant corporations rule the day. is coming to live from moscow. leaders are gathering for their first summit of two thousand and twelve with a sense of deja vu in greece is still the center of discussion and the pressure is still on athens to overhaul its economy with the german finance minister warning it

won't receive a second financial lifeline if it doesn't correspondent has more from brussels. it's not being labeled as a last ditch effort and this time nevertheless the stakes remain a 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 going up as high as twenty three percent in countries like spain now it is expected that the seventeen members of the eurozone area may meet after. 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 creditors are being asked to write down some of the greek debt take some losses is crucial here if greece is to get the second tranche of its money it is adding to the mix of what's happening today belgium is holding. 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 this agreement benefits and all of this is part. of. the deficit of the country too with limits of three percent. prior to today. so it doesn't coincide with a general strike but all that said and done all of these are indeed happening today . reporting right she is also keeping. the fluid developments going on today in brussels. describe the reaction of the union members staging monday. some of them complain that should be focused on the need. for. europe. in the near future.

it's good to have you with us today here on our team at the preelection a promises are coming thick and fast in russia less than five weeks before the presidential poll a prime minister and presidential hopeful vladimir putin outline his program to reform the country's economy and as a third pre-election article let's get the latest now on this and cross over to our g.'s you got to just kind of a detail as to how you go to so what are the most crucial points of putting a focus is on this time. while this article has already been deemed by many analysts is a whole list of liberal reforms proposed by the prime minister on the economy first of all was going to push him says he wants to see the role of the state and of state monopoly is reduced for example gas from which as quite an influence on our

russia's business life secondly the fight against corruption especially in the sphere of high level kickbacks during state orders and purchases more attention is needed to be paid there as well now another major problem for the economy according to the prime minister is its. remaining connection with natural resources its dependency on natural resources which has to be reduced as well and putin says that if these issues would be dealt with successfully it should improve the investment climate in the country and increase the economies competitiveness against other international players there is also another point worth mentioning from that article and that is the idea to propose the world's tax which should concern real estate and other a luxury purchases an issue will.