those wounded authorities are trying to find out what triggered the hoof a crash and witnesses say drivers were blinded by fog and smoke from the five making started intentionally at least a dozen cars and six trucks from. the pre election promises are coming thick and fast in russia less than five weeks before the presidential poll prime minister and presidential hopeful that important outline his program to reform the country's economy and his third pre-election article noughties igor reports this article has already been deemed by many analysts as a whole list of liberal reforms proposed by the prime minister on the economy first of all was going to says he wants to see the role of the state and of state monopolies reduced for example gazprom which has quite an influence on our 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's 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 which has been and is still being discussed in russia society for quite some time now. and more detailed analysis of that in the putin's proposals in our 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 to iran's nuclear ambitions this rhetoric has intensified noticeably over the course of the current presidential race and as well it is very important or explains some politicians are 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. however for many american jews in israel supporting the iraq obama's a war of words against the wrong doesn't go far no sign of the simply state i'm committed to israel's 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 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 threat. or we are going to kill you politically or literally i think that. serious threat. seriously 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 artie's requests for an interview meanwhile obama finds himself

facing another election and a slew of republican opponents executive 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 it is unacceptable and i take those that word carefully is unacceptable for iran to become a nuclear nation if rick santorum and when rick santorum is president iran will not get a nuclear weapon because the world as we know it will be no more clear i want to have israel 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 recap of our top stories with me billboard is only a few minutes away from no before that it's the latest business update with katie. thank you bill and welcome to the business program has just been hearing that a move putin has outlined the changes he things need to be made to the russian economy putin recognizes the need to diversify away from role materials reduce take control of a business and improve the investment climate burn national capital says a plan lacks concrete details and underestimate the value of private capital. there needs to be opposed to government policy as putin said very well in his in his article but the real question question has never been asked in russia is how does

this government really. positive government policy how does it build roads how is it built how does it sponsor industries like here you look at what works in russia at the moment with the private sector you've got great supermarket chains they've opened up you've got good financial companies that have really evolved mobile telecom companies yandex you know these are really successful companies that have been developed in russia over the last fifteen years and they're a long way ahead in terms of their efficiency and the government sector. and the prime minister has been taking a lot of courage to visit us on monday he opens a new state of the art trying to production on two losses northwest the billion dollar facility produced thirty thousand workers 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 sank amid the all important meeting between the leaders in europe

will draw a line under the sovereign debt crisis both of us have said one percent this hour both m i six on the r.t.s. finished today's trading session in the red the r.t.s. lost over one percent of my stocks last point eight percent. this is how the biggest moves on the my sets got on fine i just finished sharply lower down by sentiment for me russia's top lender spot bank jobs over two percent majors did better than the market finished hopeful for so. many jobs over one percent despite uses net profit rose twenty four percent last year up better than expected. from. wraps up the day's trade. the chinese munter authorities again abstain from zero or in reserve requirements that was the expectation and to the verse where the asian

markets were but don't beat this morning plus. there's no understanding of how the greek talks will end and though obviously that's not the end of a story there's portugal making headlines today again as the yields climbed and 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 prices on the ruble is losing against both the dollar and the year ike and the year is retreating against the u.s. crises the trade is a favor a path. a muzzle from us to business without the headlines up next.

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from the russian capital twenty four hours a day this is on the top stories now international observers in syria killed time in the hotel the waiting further instruction from the arab league. continues around the capital russia office to host talks between the syrian government and the opposition with damascus already taking up the offer. could stop supplying. some response to sanctions against its nuclear program which is currently undergoing a un inspection. in parliament suspending its debate on the complete crude exports to the whole european union. leaders meeting brussels for their first summit this

year but. with the greek debt still center of discussion taking place against the backdrop of protests and a general strike in belgium. i'll be back with more news stories in about fifteen minutes from now an update for in the meantime as iran braces itself to face the effect of fresh western imposed sanctions we talked to his interior minister and the current stand still is influencing affairs inside the country this is r.t. . the possibility of war between the united states and iran is being debated there around the world that's what the mood is like inside the country this cause that the endowed joined by iran's interior minister. lot that are it's 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 your advantage iran 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. that 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 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 none the less they keep speculating on this matter of trying to stir up psychological warfare inside our country or in the countries of the region well 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. so you are stopping deal with to get this all stop 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 to we used to manipulate the political situation now. the way we're doing it again and that i believe they've made a big mistake as this action results in turbulence for the oil and energy markets this very factor can result in oil price growth in these condition is 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 iran 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 ians navaids the rankins with the aggressive and military rhetoric being built up by the west bank and they aren't as i've said these words aren't new 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 and 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 searched. thing 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 how 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 of increased forty fold since the americans got there. 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 physical annihilation of people in full daylight is a sign of the adversaries complete powerlessness and despair our initial 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 are 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 that us there that's us and you know that artie 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 have 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 ts 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 year is passed 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 demands are legitimate imperialistic regime 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 you know what countries of the region however is stipulated by their willingness to defend their. right which is a legitimate demand from iran's viewpoint what 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 world 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 drugs 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 then on the other hand russia is also on the route that its northern end because the drugs penetrate russia through central asia and

then go to europe you know we suffer serious losses on this route more than three thousand seven hundred lives have been lost in the attempt to resolve this issue. 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 which is you're on phone. as well as well 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. i am. as were shot four times in total and i want to use it. sort of the bullets are still in my body. and 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. 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 shot to kill it what i want to philadelphia the streets. kill a lot of hopefully we will never have to use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared for the full class including the teacher i think was. seventeen students and said i'm one of seven or still.

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top stories here on all our international syria killed time in the hotel awaiting further instruction from the arab league. continues around the capital meanwhile. between the syrian opposition with the already taking out. there all morning it could stop supplying. states in response to sanctions against the program which is currently undergoing an inspection. suspending its debate. for the whole european union. for the. death. discussion be taking place against the symbolic backdrop of the thirty

protests a general strike in belgium. i mean stores will have more on those and plenty of other stories we in less than fifteen minutes from now in the meantime kate is next with the latest sport. hello welcome to the monday night sport roundup and other top stories. coming up the inquest a former wells football manager gary speed says the forty two year old may have killed himself accidentally. while supernova talk of a child his epic a stray and i tried over rough on the dog as his best. way to call stymies up is a meltdown on the last hole of the farmers insurance i plan to give grants i'm likely to trade. but first a football on is the corner investigating the death of former wales manager gary

speed has suggested the former midfielder might have killed himself accidentally rather than committing suicide car no they gave the cause of death as hanging but said the evidence does not sufficiently determine whether this was intentional or accidental the inquest heard that speech texted his wife days before his death and talked in terms of taking his life but later dismissed it on a couple also had a round on the night before his death speed his hand hanging in his garage on november the twenty seventh while his wife louise the coroner said speed may have fallen asleep while sitting on the stairs with cable around his neck speed was well as most kept to a player and once held the record for most english premier league appearances. staying with football and manchester city manager the better man cheney has been boosted by the return of banned captain vincent kompany for tuesday's premier league trip to everton city elder three point lead at the top over rivals manchester united and eight points over top them then.