opposition has meantime rejected any attempts to get them to talk to authorities this comes after russia invited the syrian government and opposition right here to moscow for negotiations on a peace agreement. is the latest from damascus. but we've seen the situation escalating dramatically over the past couple of days now over the weekend the suburbs were embroiled in the heavy clashes between the tea sides in fact in damascus people were waking up yesterday to the sounds of gunfire and shelling in those areas very very alarming indeed some of the reports that were coming from those areas and certainly the response from the government to the free syrian army taking control of some of those suburbs has been a strong well we've had reports of tanks going into those areas and the death toll on both sides extremely high as well and of course this comes on the back of the arab league monitoring mission saying that they had whole said that mission for the

time being is that the remaining observers that are here in the country they hadn't really seemed to recover from that decision last week of the gulf states to withdraw their monitors was hard to say really exactly what the future of the mission now is there's a little bit of a sense that it's dead in the war so now what we saw at the end of the month of course as they presented their reports i was interesting is the details of that has that made note of abuses on both sides that was what had been mentioned and on the back of that it was then full had discussed possibly increasing the numbers on the ground making the mission stronger as well and that is the house really what we saw was the decision for the goals things to improve and wanted to now it's been felt that there's been an increased pressure to internationalize this conflict now rather than trying to focus on finding a syrian solution now today russia's foreign ministry has said that it has put all those the offer of using moscow as a place to hold

a reconciliation course between the seaside pursuing some sort of resolution to the situation through dialogue again because what we've seen with the arab league decision states the u.s. says are that there's a real close now the. it's national and international involvement and possibly we could see the conflict get even more violent even more militarized i must know what anyone wants to see is he said the last few days have been at an escalating situation and he's our sorry for putting right there while i still had for you here in the program just over a month before russia's presidential. prime minister was reporting pence's third pre-election or to go painting himself as the presidential candidate for widespread economic reforms. the occupy movement spilled onto the streets of london with police refused to go in over the top during a crackdown on protesters our correspondent she will be joining us with

a fresh update in just a few minutes. iran has vowed to halt oil exports to some e.u. countries for up to fifteen years nice to spite it's parliament disposing a debate on a complete ban on crude supplies to europe it will be in retaliation to the e.u. imposed embargo on iranian oil due to come into full effect this summer russia's foreign minister says terrans threat shows how unilateral sanctions can often backfire. russia has firmly held the opinion that in most cases sanctions are not only ineffective but also counterproductive for the current situation yet again confirms the old long to every action there is an equal reaction to iran's announcement was made in response to be european union's decision to ban the purchasing of iranian oil by even member states meanwhile iran's nuclear program which is the target of the new sanctions is being

scrutinized by u.n. inspections tehran has offered i.a.e.a. officials the chance to extend their mission and said it was ready to answer any question to prove that atomic ambitions a peaceful but some experts suggest the only report western states want to see is one that justifies a military buildup in the region i.a.e.a. is 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 we should then you balance on a balanced way to sort of lead to the next stage i think what we are witnessing here is is a build up cause of military call for a day should we have a massive reply because of u.s. military hardware troops going into israel to be stationed in israel also going to wait. that you know naval. naval forces in the.

ocean go all of those not all i would describe as by the actual wall for the issue of nuclear weapons it's rather stupid of weapons is a red herring but it is a red herring which could well be. later in the program here on our to you we explore why some u.s. politicians are banging the drums for war louder and louder how calls to attack iran become calls to attack the american president so all protect the interests of a different country. while the ongoing western attempts to corner iran and tehran's response to the topics for debate in cross talk today coming up in about one hour's time here a preview. mode 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 right you guys 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 years i think 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 that so you have to be prepared to stop this military effort that he says i'm going to light this morning when he says he doesn't and you can vote why don't you marry him he'll you know he wants to wipe out israel which is what for a country that has a taboo anybody or show now we 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 new bibi netanyahu even if it is kind of information that rhetoric to get reelected he being here is a need now that people need to know how did you know then like you are going to be nice to moderate and you get this interesting to me.

anytime past the hour here in moscow and after surveying the damage from saturday's occupy protests in oakland california the mayor wants to kick the activists out of the city electorates rally and that with riot police firing tear gas and flash bombs meanwhile in washington the national park service has given the. until today . the real threat to occupy. demonstrators are peaceful protests in response sara photos from the international action center believes the occupy movement continues to attract for. its 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 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 base this on as being 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. well accusations of excessive force by police in the us have been well documented since the occupy movement began now more than five months ago and there's proof of it on our website i want to go from here in washington a seemingly innocent protester corralled by police and take you stood as dozens of fellow occupiers look on this video and many others are all at our you tube channel twenty four hours a day just check it out at you tube dot com slash so. well police in london have also been accused of excessive force in their efforts to

clear out occupy demonstrators protesters stood together last night as officers broke down the doors to their. joins us live from from london for more details on this. the occupy movement that was supposed to really fade away according to many of the end of two thousand and eleven however it continues to go on america's west coast now in england what's been happening where you are. well what we've seen in the last twenty four hours is the first if exception of the occupy and these men from a building that they were calling the bank of ideas it was a building that is owned by u.b.s. the bank and it was evicted by a group of. who are very known in this country for taking part in these evictions particularly when it concerns private property anyone who's been up a bit against a bailiff in this country would call them hired thugs basically they're hired by private companies to to get rid of people out of their own prophecy and what you

see on the video that we're showing now is a bailiff essentially driving into a group of protesters watched on by the police basically he allegedly before this incident took place punched supersoaker from their face and let's just watch what's happening here because surrounded by protesters he then drives into the air and carrying one of the processes on the going to support his call for about sort of one hundred one hundred fifty meters as he drives off down the street the police. looking on and doing apparently nothing you can see it in slow motion if you watch carefully you can see that process of being carried off on the bonnet of the car while the media and other protesters just look on unable to do any saying the police apparently did nothing apart from briefly confiscate the keys of the car keys of the bailiff in question they then gave back his car keys according to the occupy movement and then cleared the way for him to leave the scene now the old you by protesters who remain and they do still remain around some calls cathedral where they were originally they want to know why the police protect what is apparently

a violent aggressor who's actions of being caught on camera and also why the police think it's more important to protect a building than it is to protect the people who it was supposed to be and. when i spoke to the occupy movement just shortly before coming into the studio their spokesman said to me that so far they've received absolutely no response from the police to this incident to talk. life in london thank you. e.u. leaders are gathering for the first summit of two thousand and twelve with a sense of deja vu greece still the center of discussion the pressure is still on athens to overhaul its economy but the german finance minister warning it won't receive a second financial lifeline if it does and our correspondent reports now from brussels. they're supposed to talk more about the fiscal compact they had agreed

upon at the last e.u. summit as well as push for the european stability mechanism which is the permanent bailout fund they will put in place now in june instead of july these are the official informal topics but greece is still hanging over their heads especially since there have been war of words between greece and germany with the germans are calling for moving taxing and spending power over to brussels and the german finance minister saying that the europeans are willing to support greece as long as greece actually implements these decisions instead of just talking about it all the greeks had responded to that with a lot of that still to be saying that this is definitely out of the question especially since this is a matter of national sovereignty and one former minister who's now the greek education minister had actually called it quote unquote a product of a sick imagination so you can you can tell that the greeks are definitely upset with the german suggestion now why did the german suggested this is because of that ongoing talks between the greeks and their creditors it's still dragging it's been

stalling for some time now the greeks need to strike a deal with the private sector and their creditors asking the banks for example to write down some of the greek back to take some losses about fifty to sixty percent of losses and this is in order for greece to get the second tranche of its bailout which it needs to pay some debts in march because if they don't they will technically default now as the e.u. leaders are getting ready for the summit belgium where this is happening in brussels it's on a general strike a lot of walking and cycling today because all the metros down no buses and one of the airports is also closed the unions are protesting against the government cutting their benefits slashing retirement age also raising the retirement age rather so they're complaining that the workers are bearing the brunt and the enterprises are not getting here at. reporting is also keeping. updated on developments in brussels one of describing the reaction of.

some of the. focusing on the needs of suffering workers and not private enterprises others. europe wide. future. the pre-election promises. less than five weeks before the presidential poll. presidential hopeful. program to reform of the country's economy in its third pre-election article. the latest on this. 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. says he wants to see the role of the state and of state monopolies reduced for example gas from which has quite an influence on russia's business like 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 a dependency on natural resources which has to be reduced as well and 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 tax which should concern v.a.p. real estate and other a luxury purchase is an issue which has been and is still being discussed in the

russian society for quite some time now. he's got a piskun of reporting right now but if you want to stay with us here on the program our business bulletin with katie is a few minutes away will be having more detailed analysis of a lot of my putin's proposals. all right let's get to the artsy world of the now for you some other international headlines in brief we'll start with nigeria. terrorist organization is suspected of attacking a police station in the northern city of kano gunman opened fire and threw explosives killing two civilians in the isolde over the weekend the organization distributed leaflets around the city warning residents of more attacks on security services it was just ten days ago carried out multiple blasts in kano that left almost two hundred people dead. a pakistani doctor is waiting to see whether he'll be put on trial for assisting the u.s. in its raid on osama bin laden's compound. a pretty helped the cia collect d.n.a.

samples from residents in a bottle bad to check if the al-qaeda leader was there last week u.s. defense secretary leon panetta publicly acknowledged the doctor provided key data ahead of the operation. car pileup on a florida highway has left ten thousand. authorities are trying to find out what triggered the horrific crash when it's they say drivers were blinded by fog and smoke from a fire that may have been started intentionally at least a dozen six trucks. are not as good but to the growing international pressure on iran america's behavior towards the islamic republic is often seen as the most threatening but it may not just be about tyrone's nuclear ambitions this rhetoric has intensified noticeably over the course of the current u.s. presidential race and it's not his marina portnoy explained some politicians are

putting political points on the support of the jewish community far ahead of the u.s. national interest. 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 be no doubt america is determined to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon and i will take no options off the table thank you thank you thank you however for many american jews and israeli supporters iraq obama's war of words against iran doesn't go far enough some of the simply state i'm committed to israel's 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 zionists or. in a zation 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 tel 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 life played 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 the threat made to obama. or we are going to kill you either politically or literally i think that it . seriously the american president and the money in. congress. 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 abundantly clear and it is unacceptable that i take those that word carefully is unacceptable for iran to become a nuclear nation if rick santorum and when rick santorum is president. iran will not get a nuclear weapon because the world as we know it will be no more than. very close to who. should publicly 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. and i do remember you can always find more news

plus analysis on our website dot com less of a quick look and see what's waiting for there right now sequence on the british intelligence has been ordered to classify all documents related to f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko died of radioactive poisoning and you go find out more about it online. plus the biggest drone in the world. and exploded in israel this happening during a test flight to find out what the cause of the accident was so you don't. just approaching twenty five minutes past the hour now here in moscow. and the business.

a late to a warm welcome to the business program as we've just been hearing classmate putin has outlined the changes he thinks need to be made to the russian economy p.c. recognizes the need to diversify away from raw materials reduce state control of the business and improve the investment climate. cut off campus or believes the country needs to act now to avoid future budget problems. they'll be strong mockery can only come political economy incentives for pushing shit your return is a president to be much more reform oriented and much more proactive in introducing and implementing just kind of reforms this is an idea that you've been trying to advance your address and scrap it all russia is already running its significant fiscal deficit based on our estimates into two years' time russia will start running current account deficits these deficits we do need to be financed somehow

therefore it is you really it will be imperative for direction 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 has changed a little bit and again i think there are enough incentives for us to assume that you might be a little bit more broad form or you enter in his term as a president of course if he if he wins their elections. and the prime minister has been taking a hands on approach to business on monday and a new state of the art train car production plants and buses northwest the billion dollar facility will produce thirteen thousand wagons and yet to meet the growing demand for well freight and her face a soviet era cars that make up most of the country's voting stock ok let's see what's happening in the world in the markets we're going to start with oil traders of course is the head of the european union summit in brussels later on monday even tensions with iran are failing to boost those prices around depth to your ministers

said crude could reach one hundred fifty dollars if an e.u. involved comes into force in july this hour the w c i is currently a point eight percent eight cents for the brand one hundred eleven just a vat we're going to move on to the ecb which is now european bourses are failing to withstand the pressure ahead of the e.u. meeting greece will be in the spotlight again as all the members of the eurozone try to force it to accept outside controls. on its budget this hour both the footsie on the docks the boat down one to seven just about i kind of have a look what's happening in moscow it's going red they are down in sympathy with those global indices are low all this adding it to the press yes it is zero point zero zero zero percent down. zero point eight percent down. i'm going to move on to the biggest movies on my site most financials are in the red losing. energy mages

are bouncing back from the losses with gazprom. just like two percent and retailer magnate is also down his net profit rose twenty four percent of. the cases now into the currency writes the old prices are weighing on the variable is losing against both a dollar a year on the year is retreating against the u.s. currency ahead of that european summit move to the bounce. and now a business all to exclusive all like that of the owner of the walls biggest almany and producer role saul one of the richest men 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 second. we don't expect. you know significant improvement the next six months. not in the very bullish but

optimistic for the second part of the year but it's a move from a just market is quite stable in jan question because they were. in the positive transformation in the improvement. in europe but in general. and if you want to see the interview in full you can get to the website. i'm going to get these markets. close to the russian markets u.s. markets will be and then i'll be back fifty five minutes in the.

world with. its technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to you this is our team live from moscow your headlines now as international observers in syria kill time in their hotels awaiting further instruction from the arab league this is fierce fighting continues around the capital meanwhile russia offers to host talks between the syrian government and the

opposition but the massacres already taking up the offer. iran warns it could stop supplying oil to some e.u. states in response to sanctions against its nuclear program which is currently undergoing a un inspection despite the iranian parliament suspending its on. a complete ban of crude exports to the whole year of being. an easy leaders meeting in brussels for the first summit this year but the agenda is far from new with greek debt still the center of discussion the meetings taking place against the symbolic backdrop of venti austerity protests and a general strike in belgium. next as iran braces itself to face the effect of fresh western imposed sanctions and we sit down with its interior minister to ask how the current standstill is influencing affairs inside the country and watching out.