and the opposition has been accepted by the assad government. has the latest from damascus. well we've seen the situation escalating dramatically over the past couple of days now over the weekend the suburbs were embroiled in a heavy clashes between the two 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 hold said that mission for the time being is that the remaining observers that are here in the country they hadn't really seems to recover from that decision last week of the gulf states to withdraw

their monitors well it's hard to say really exactly what the future of the mission now is there's a little bit of a sense though 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 made note of abuses on both sides that was what had been mentioned and on the back of that it was then discussed possibly increasing the numbers on the ground and making the mission stronger as well instead of the housing what we saw was the decision for the gold states to withdraw them well this is not today russia's foreign ministry has said that it has put forward the offer of using moscow as a place to hold a reconciliation talks between the two sides pursuing some sort of resolution to the situation through dialogue again because what we've seen with the arab league decision to go to the u.n. the fears are that there's a real question now for international and fairness the international involvement

adding possibly we could see the conflict get even more violent even more militarized and that's not what i. well once this is they said the last few days have been an escalating situation. political analyst from jordan talk to his sham gussy believes that some of syria's opposition groups are opposed to negotiation largely because of their foreign support. we have many oppositions as you know. the internal opposition and i'm sure that they would ultimately welcome such an opportunity to open talks with. the rest of the opposition especially those stationed outside syria i think they they would reject. not only today but those who back that many of the opposition groups outside syria supported by gulf states by turkey or by by western companies have two political reasons for.

feeding the complication in syria i think they don't want that they're not interested in the form nor are they interested in democracy or freedom all they're interested in is to disturb the situation to weaken the iranian syrian lebanese alliance i think that's what they're aiming at and i think that what they're aiming at is some sort of a new middle east that suits their purposes. still ahead for you on r.t. just over a month before russia's presidential vote. prime minister vladimir putin is. painting himself as the presidential candidate for widespread economic reform. the occupy movement spills on the streets of london with police accused of going over the top during a crackdown on protesters. their stories start a company first but first iran has vowed to halt oil exports to some e.u. countries for up to fifteen years despite its parliament despoiling a debate on

a complete ban on crude supplies to europe would 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 tehran stretch shows how you know natural sanctions can often . russia has firmly held the opinion that in most cases sanctions are not only ineffective but also counterproductive the current situation yet again confirms the old law to every action there is an equal reaction 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 e.u. sanctions is being scrutinized by u.n. inspectors to run as often i.a.e.a. officials the chance to extend their mission and said it was ready to answer any question to prove its atomic ambitions peaceful but some experts suggest the only report western states wants to see is one that justifies a military buildup in the region. 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 you know which then you balance on a balanced way to. the next stage i think what we are witnessing here is is a build up because of military confrontation we have a massive reply because of u.s. military hardware troops going into israel to be stationed in israel also going to put weight. you know naval. naval forces in the. ocean go all of those i what i would describe as by the actual war the issue of nuclear weapons. of iran's nuclear weapons is a red herring but it is

a red herring which could well be that aria. and later in the program we explore why some u.s. politicians of banging those drums for war louder and louder. and how calls to attack iran become calls to attack the american president himself to protect the interests of a different country. the ongoing west attempts to corner iran and iran's response of the topics up for debate to peter lavelle's cross talk now that's coming up in the next here on r.t. but in the meantime here's a quick taste of what lies ahead in the program. wants to bring the hidden event out of a well by doing something spectacular and destructive to enemies of islam and this is what motivates him right you guys and all 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 allah 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 that so you have

to be prepared to stop his military efforts and he says i'm going to lie destroy any says he doesn't and you can evolve why did you marry him lucille you know he wants to wipe out israel was a lot for a country that has been attacked by anybody or should not be always a doctor the most powerful nation this kind of rhetoric this kind of rhetoric is not good for israel israel is a very strong country and it doesn't need this bibi netanyahu use of this kind of information and rhetoric to get reelected he being here is a need now that people need to know how did you know then like you are going to get i'm sorry could you repeat this interesting to me. heated debate in cross talk a little later. after surveying the damage from saturday's occupy protests in oakland california the mayor wants to kick activists out of the city that is ronnie ended with drug police firing tear gas and flash bombs while in washington the national park service is given activists until noon today to move the company to

a point too. demonstrators are planned a peaceful protest in response so if lowndes for international action center told me that she believes the occupy movement continues to attract followers. 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 thousands of one percent is gaining enormous new wealth so that there are very successful and 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. as asians of excessive force by police in the u.s. have been well documented since the occupy movement began more than five months ago and there's proof on our website you know washington seemingly innocent protest or is corralled by police and tasered dozens of. this video and many others all. by you tube channel alerts you tube dot com slash. police in london have also been accused of excessive force in the rivets to clear out occupy demonstrators protesters stood together last night as officers looked to take over their camps obviously or smith has more on the london based battle between occupiers and offices. what we've seen in the last twenty four hours is the first if exception of the occupy movement 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 anyone who's been up against a bailiff in this country would call them hired thugs basically 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 a photographer in the face the police apparently did nothing apart from briefly confiscate the keys of the car keys of the bailiffs 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 so far they've received absolutely no response from the police to this instance at all and the remember you can always find more news comment and analysis on our web site is all too don't come all the time as for a quick look and see what's there right now secrets a lot of british intelligence has been ordered to declassify documents related to x. f.s.b. officer an example of an income he died of radioactive poisoning in london five

years ago you can find out more and that online plus. the biggest drug in the world has crashed and exploded in israel during a test flight discover the cause of the accident adultery don't come. the e.u. leaders may have gathered in brussels for talks on boosting growth and creating jobs but there's an elephant in the room that's hard to escape athens is still on the verge of bankruptcy as it struggles to agree a debt reduction deal and they're adults the country is even able to control its finances our correspondent cilia has more 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 we 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 it's a matter of national sovereignty and one former eat commissioner who's now the greek education minister who 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 suggests that 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 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 belgium is 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 of 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. well as our correspondent there mentioned e.u. leaders aim to push through these so-called fiscal union to toughen budget rules and punish those who don't have a poor level member of the european parliament has told me that the direction in which the is moving is undemocratic they're trying to put a lot of pressure on greece and this idea that the germans have that you can almost

put a budget commissioner in athens who will oversee their budgets set taxes is quite frankly an affront to democracy the oldest democracy in the world and if i was in athens of the moment i'd be out on the streets demonstrating as well the scary thing here that you have is once you start thinking with democracy and trying to change things i think you're on a very slippery slope in these and what's happened at the moment over here is that the e.u. is really showing it through that showing what it's all about it doesn't want to listen to the people what they're doing at the moment in the building behind me is they're talking about an intergovernmental agreement and this will go into a primary e.u. law through secondary legislation which means that the people can be bypassed there will be referendums across the continent particularly in iowa where there should be a referendum on this and what will happen is they will bypass the people and it will go straight into a you could you know and they will get exactly what they want and it is a complete affront to the markets it only got to get worse i mean at the moment they're burning german flags on the streets of athens i predict it will be roll next and then there's been you never know it could be toppled as well the tensions

between the countries and particularly between the north of europe and the south of europe is only going to get greater and what you've got is you've got protests in the south and what we're seeing in the north is a political revolution where new parties are springing or and euro skeptic parties are getting better results than ever before. a look now at some other major news stories across the world and we start in. the star's was a. terrorist organization is suspected of attacking a police station in the northern city of qana on the open fire and threw explosives killing two civilians in the assault over the weekend the organization distributed leaflets around the city warning residents of more attacks on security services ten days ago carried out multiple blasts in kernel which left almost two hundred. in the blank bangladeshi capital dhaka the head of the opposition and thousands of her supporters staged a demonstration calling for early elections. for two years and other

anti-government rallies across the country turned violent with three people killed in clashes between protesters and security forces activists also say over thousand demonstrators were detained. a car pileup on a florida highway has left ten people dead and a dozen others wounded authorities are trying to find out what triggered the perfect crash and witnesses say drivers were blinded by fog and smoke from a fire that may have been started intentionally at least a dozen cars and six trucks were. the election promises are coming thick and fast in russia less than five weeks before the presidential poll prime minister and presidential hopeful velimir putin outlined his program to reform the country's economy in his third pre-election article noughties. reports. 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 has 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 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's also another point worth mentioning from that article and that is the idea to propose the world's tax which should concern v.a.p. real estate and other a luxury purchases an issue which has been and is still being discussed in russian

society for quite some time now. and then more detailed analysis of limitations proposals and business update that's coming up next here on t.v. that will be shortly but now 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 tehran's nuclear ambitions this rhetoric has intensified noticeably over the course of the current presidential race and has been a partner 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 ironclad commitment and i mean i required 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 ok however for many american jews and israeli supporters iraq obama's war of words against the wrong doesn't go far no sign of the simply state i'm committed to israel security you have to promote policies that commit you 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 this is an existential threat to israel and obama should be saying. so publicly that he will support israel in whatever military action they stay necessary more inclined is president of the zionist organization of america he says an unprecedented amount of american jews and israelis share his animosity a feeling arguably underscored by the israeli government according to published reports tell of eve would only give washington twelve hours notice if deciding to

strike iran i believe his policies are among the most hostile israel's ever experienced of any president in my lifetime recently it was the life of president obama being threatened in a column 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 is a serious threat to our experience the american president and the money. congress

apac is the largest largest. group in the united states it is the king maker in. the american israel public affairs committee known as a pac declined our teams request 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 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 a clear ally of israel i'm very close to netanyahu i would have said publicly that i would rather plan a joint operation conventionally than push the israelis to

a point where the nuclear. at a time when the u.s. bears the burden of a broken economy growing social unrest and ongoing military conflicts starting 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 marine up or nile r.t. new york. recap of our top stories with me billboard is only a few minutes away from though before that it's the latest business update with katie. thank you bill and welcome to the business program as we've just been hearing that move fusion has outlined the changes he things need to be made to the russian economy recognizes the need to diversify away from raw materials reduce take control of the business and improve the investment climate but

a national capital says a plan lacks concrete details and underestimates the value of private capital. there needs to be opposed to government policy as putin said very well i mean. the real question question is never going to be in russia is how does this government really positive government policy how does it build or how does it which is how does it sponsor industries like here you look at what works in russia at the moment is the private sector you've got great supermarket chains that are very. good for natural companies that have really evolved mobile telecom companies you know these are really successful companies that have been developed over the last fifteen years and there are a long way ahead in terms of their efficiency and the government sector. the prime minister has been taking a lot of courage to business on monday he opens a new state of the art train car production pontoon losses northwest the billion dollar facility produced thirty thousand wagons

a year to move the growing to marvell phrase other places soviet era cars that make up most of the country's rolling stock. ok let's have a look at the markets european bourses have dropped the most in six weeks as portuguese bonds signed amid the all important meeting between the leaders in europe the file to draw a line under the sovereign debt crisis but it's young adults have said one percent. both of my sex and the r.t. have finished today's trading session in the red sauce over one percent my stats that last point eight percent. this is how the biggest moves on the my sets got on fine i just finished sharply lower down sentiment from russia's top lender spot bank jobs over two percent i g majors did better than the market finished top of. our reseller magni dropped over one percent despite news its net profit rose twenty

four percent last year up better than expected. from. the right. stop the day's trade for. the chinese munter authorities again abstain from lower and reserve requirements that was the expectation and the verse where the asian markets were but don't think this morning plus. there's no understanding of how the greek talks will end and obviously that's not the end of a story first portugal has been making headlines silly again as the yields climbed actually climbed for. almost across the board in europe is again a negative. and now let's see how those cards he writes god on low all prices all on the ruble is losing against both the dollar and the year right on the year is retreating against the u.s. currency the trade is a favor of. a muzzle from us to business with

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some response to sanctions against its nuclear program which is currently undergoing a un inspection. suspending its. crude exports to the whole european. brussels for the. new with still discussion taking place against the backdrop of protests and a general strike. with more news stories in about fifteen minutes from now an update for in the meantime as iran braces itself to face the effects of fresh western imposed sanctions we talked to his interior minister and the current stance still is influencing inside the country this is a.