putin's proposals all right let's get to the r c world out there 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 is sold 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 a car now 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. a car pileup on

a florida highway has left ten dead and a dozen good health or he's are trying to find out what triggered the horrific crash when is this a drivers were blinded by fog and smoke from a fire that may have been started intentionally at least a dozen six trucks. are now let's get back 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 porton i 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 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 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 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 televisa 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 show you 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 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 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 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. r.t. new york. and i do remember you can always i find more news and comment plus analysis on our website dot com let's have a quick look and see what's waiting for there right now sequence on that lock british intelligence has been ordered to classify all documents related to x.

f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko died of radioactive poisoning in london five years ago find out more about that online. class and the biggest unmanned drone in the world has crashed and exploded in israel this happening during a test flight to find out what the cause of the accident was at and so you don't. just approaching twenty five minutes past the hour now here in moscow here comes the business. a warm welcome to the business program as we've just been hearing flies made fusion has outlined the changes he thinks need to be made to the russian economy p.c.

recognizes the need to diversify away from old materials which just take control of the business and improve the investment climate check out all. the country needs to act now to avoid budget problems. they'll be strong market economics and political economy incentives for pushing shit your return as a president to be march more reform oriented and much more proactive in introducing and implementing this kind of reforms this is an idea that you've been trying to advance your address and scrap it all russia is already running significant fiscal deficits based on our estimates into two years' time russia will start running current account deficits these deficits will need to be financed somehow therefore really it will be imperative for drudging 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 broadly form oriented in his term as a president of course if you if you are winning their elections. and the prime minister has been taking a hands on approach to business on monday he opened a new state of the art train car production plant in russia's northwest the billion dollar facility to produce thirteen thousand wagons and yet to meet the growing demand for well freight and to face a soviet era cars that make up most of the country's rolling stock i say 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 t i is currently at point eight percent eight cents on the brant one hundred eleven just

a that we're going to move on to the equities now european bourses are failing to withstand the pressure ahead of the e.u. meeting greece will be in the spotlight again as other members of the eurozone try to force it to accept outside controls. on its budget this hour both the first say and the dogs 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 so the l.c.s. is zero point zero zero percent down. zero point eight percent down. i'm going to move on to the biggest movies on the my sex most find in the red bank losing i was up a send their energy mages are bouncing back from their losses with gas from dining just up by two percent and retailer magnate is also down his net profit rose twenty four percent a bit. until the case has now into the currency writes the old price is always in

the variable is losing against both the dollar and the year on the year is retreating against the u.s. currency ahead of that european summit we're talking about. and now a business all to exclusive all like that of the owner of the walls biggest producer of all soul i want to russia's 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 half of the year. we don't expect. enough significant improvement the next six months in the we are not in the very bullish but optimistic for the second part of the year but it's a moment some of this market is quite stable in jan question because there were. in the positive transformation in the improvement to. slow down in europe but in

general st. and if you want to see the interview in full you can get over to the website for what. i'm going to get these markets. for the russian markets u.s. markets will be and then i'll be back fifty five minutes john in the.

world with. its technology innovation all the moves 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 on top of 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 office to host talks between the syrian government and the opposition but damascus already taking up the offer. iran wants 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. a complete ban of

crude exports to the whole year of being. an e.q. leaders meeting in brussels for the first summit this year but the agenda is far from you with the greek debt still the center of discussion the meetings taking place against the symbolic backdrop of anti 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. the possibility of war between the united states and iran is being debated there around the world but what the mood is like by the country that they are now joined by iran. a lot that are possible thank you for your time mr

stone is that they were talking several days after the e.u. introduced oil sanctions against iran and i know the iranian leadership has responded by saying the sanctions would do more harm to europe one to iran i mean you're still since iran gets seventy percent of its revenues from oil do you have any fears about negative social reactions including strikes as people may lose their jobs do you take this somehow into account in your work or you know. these speculations are new to our country and our government or the power of the people all around ruling bodies or in power as a result of popular voting and therefore our government and are all for it is a completely popular and our people have participated in all areas and spheres of our life from the very start of the revolution therefore as i've said there's nothing new about these talks which are actually quite outdated and irrelevant

nonetheless they keep speculating on this matter of trying to stir up psychological warfare inside our country or in the countries of the region or probably among people of their own countries that have enough of their own problems attempting to find someone else to blame for them we don't sell that much oil to your of illnesses and our european accounts don't have that much money. for us that they deal with to get this off the the u.s. and the west as a how do not conceal that one of the main tasks of these sanctions is to get the oil prices for the iranian oil lower that's decreasing their revenues from the oil iran saudi is they want a two we used to manipulate the political situation. the way it was doing it again and that 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 should expect the drop in the euro rate and the euro market this. new decision will

result in further economic problems which as we can see have affected them already and so far they've been unable to find solutions with oil and energy markets will experience instability and turmoil and this factor can boost prices for oil and energy products and jeopardize the market security but this is quite difficult for the markets which going by previous experience is used to consuming certain kinds of oil and energy and this also brings up technical and economic issues at the same time we're not worried for around at all we've ensured our efficient planning in advance and with god's help we will continue moving forward but in the year the decisions taken today by the west unilaterally will result in the escalation of their own economic problems covering the story iran has now have as the rankins with the aggressive and military rhetoric being built up by the west and they aren't as i've said these words and you knew these speculations have been going on for thirty years and there's no news in it to the iranian people the people of iran

are in charge and they always participate in everything we don't sense any problems inside the country. if i may i would like to ask you about the recent killing of a nuclear scientist there have been other similar cases and as far as we understand the investigation into it has not made great progress so far why have there been no substantial results and who might be behind these killings think. this is clear is day and they admitted mossad and the cia as well as some european security services don't like to see nations progress they would like to have control and a monopoly over everything is sort of the great a rainy a nation and follows the path of searching for new technologies and it wants to stand firmly on its feet by means of its own strengths and produce its own knowledge they disapprove of this progress and they don't want to see other nations develop themselves and the fact that they come over to such people's homes or attempt to murder an educated and broad. minded university professor at highlights

the grave nature of their situation that it demonstrates that the us and israel have disgraced themselves in this matter that they speak of human rights and at the same time they officially perform terrorist attacks and promote state terrorism expansion. in their slogans we see their idle talk on fighting terrorism their deeds however do not match their words they brought their troops to afghanistan under the pretext of defending human rights and fighting terrorism and drug trafficking and drug reps have increased forty fold since the americans got there as the number of casualties among innocent men women and children has increased significantly and so has the level of instability in the region that we actually witness terrorism development in the region of drug mafia and drug related revenues have grown as well and we see contradiction between their words and deeds. the scientists assassination will only make the iranian people stronger and more focused on their goal will people understand that they've chosen the right path the

one of scientific progress the adversary doesn't want to see this happen that it would cause harm to them in the physical annihilation of people in full daylight is a sign of the adversary's complete powerlessness and despair are an issue and yes last i now that iran is having parliamentary elections in a month in many countries not only arab ones election may be used as a way to create provocations there are always some people unhappy with election results and this discontent may snowball i concerned by this that a similar scenario man followed in iran. no thank god we've had twenty nine elections to date and this election campaign will be our thirtieth election and it will take place in absolute peace and security like all the previous ones because our dear fellow citizens in all the regions all the cities and villages will willingly come to polling stations and cast their votes to designate their delegates to parliament to serve the purposes of development and prosperity for our

country. but there is the rest of the us as you know that r.t. has been comprehensively covering the situation in the arab countries as we have covered the wars in libya and syria we often heard complaints from the leadership that the intelligence services of other countries first stepped up their operations on the territories of the countries concerned in the past year the way many are ledged mercenaries in syria and libya who could see with our own eyes that some people were apparently not libyans but fought on the side of the rebels can you see any increase in the operations of intelligence services from other countries or any attempts to penetrate your territory at least in recent years since the latest events in the arab countries began. you see foreign powers and other enemies are at work everywhere they might also be present in our country but we do not feel we should worry about this of course we should look out for superpowers and our enemies attempting to interfere in the home affairs of arabic countries especially

in syria and in all countries where the people are in charge of running their nations they must keep track of such attempts or i don't know of other ways years worth of work until it's been about a year since the arab spring began with a first even the iranian leadership hailed the movements in egypt and libya as expressing democratic sentiments but now this one here is past the attitude towards the events around your country has changed do you still believe those are people are driven by their own democratic ideas or do you see hundred other countries in the events of the arab spring. we support any popular movement as long as people's demands are legitimate and the imperialist a great team of world supremacies is obviously trying to lead people away from the right path and neutralize the popular movement or transform it in favor of their own interests but it will have to get a pure straightforward and righteous path that people have been following in a while countries of the region whoever is stipulated by their willingness to

defend their. right which is a legitimate demand from iran's viewpoint but that is the biggest can one say that the instability in the region has considerably increased the narcotic drugs trafficking. in and out on kong yes afghanistan is certainly the focus of narcotic plantations now the americans and europeans are there and since they came narcotic drugs production has increased forty four old and it's a financial source for most terrorists who infringe the security of central asian states the states of the region and russia itself it's a threat not only for iran but for the region at large and russia if russia fails to keep an eye on what's going on next to its borders and around the country and this threat will most probably become a serious problem for russia itself it's a fact that both iran and russia the main drug trafficking route where at the beginning of it because the drugs first penetrate our country and then follow to turkey and then to europe and on the other hand russia is also on the route that

it's northern and because the drugs penetrate russia through central asia and then go to europe we suffer serious losses on this route more than three thousand seven hundred lives have been lost in the attempt to resolve this issue and given we as humans are convinced we have to go on with this ruthless battle so as to save our people and despite the fact that the world community does not lend us necessary assistance in this cause we're alone to bear most financial costs and human losses in order to continue the struggle shut down the borders and blockade the territory inside the country in order to prevent the trafficking so it seems iran and russia will have to take responsibility for the problem themselves that they've been in the u.s. in when was the one of our best i was just the pairing for this interview several colleagues approached me at r.t. asking if there was going to be a war between iran and the usa was you on phone. let

me say this again all those fabrications are not new. to us the islamic republic of iran is a strong power capable of defending its regional security fully and the iranian people being a great and powerful nation are not afraid of those futile threats that. were shot four times in total and i want to use that word. sorry of the bullets are still in my body. and those people should be allowed to defend themselves wherever they are guns in the hands of law abiding decent people are not a problem national rifle association was a group of basically retired military we love to shoot

holes and i'm sorry if you know that the bullet comes out here and this makes it go bang and what's in front of here is going to die and that's all the training you really really need raise your hand if you know something's been. killing what i want to philadelphia only the streets. to tell a lot of hopefully we will never have to use the weapons for self defense but we should be preparing the full class including the teacher i think was. seventeen students and i think i am one of seven or still. a soulless substance. in a time like a well trained army. villages in ruins.

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the headlines on the international observers in syria killed time in the hotels awaiting further instruction from the arab league as fierce fighting continues around the capital meanwhile russia offers to host talks between the syrian government and the opposition with damascus already accepting the offer. iran warns it could stop supplying up oil to some e.u. states in response to sanctions against its nuclear program which is currently undergoing a un inspection and that's despite the iranian parliament suspending its debate on a complete ban of crude exports to the whole european union. and the e.u. leaders meet in brussels for the first summit this year with the agenda is far from

new with the greek debt crisis still the center of discussion at the meeting was taking place against the symbolic backdrop of the protests and a general strike in belgium. ok with the sports that. all right thank you for joining me for the latest polls update and here's what's coming up. super novak djokovic hails his epic eyestrain open triumph over rough on the dog as his best at. last rapid fire often score three goals in seven minutes in an amazing comeback to knock aston villa out of the f.a. cup. on their way to hell because stanley suffers a meltdown on the last hole at the farmers insurance i've been to give grants made a cap on unlikely victory. the first of tennis novak djokovic has described as

a stray and open victory over rough on the dollar as the best win of his career the world number one at last his rival over five sets in an epic match lasting just under six hours to become the longest grand slam finally history the servant came from a set down to clinch the next two and looked in control in the fourth set but a thrilling comeback by nadar the spaniard tied to decide and lead for two. djokovic take back to the bench to convert it's his first match point to win it seven five the silver has the match in five hours and fifty three minutes the final score five seven six four six two six seven seven five so i started tossing is not only the longest grand slam of the most everyone is never to be a star you know the talk of it is only the first man to beat three major titles in a row twenty four year old is so big and all six of them since last year were the finals djokovic trades in the.