on carryout over operate covert operations economic sanctions and now these new sanctions are not really even a like the old sanctions they are saying to the rest of the world if you dare do business with iran central bank if you buy iranian oil which constitutes half of iran's g.n.p. if you have any business with iran whatsoever you will not have access to american banks to american corporations to the american market this is in fact a blockade. oh look there are some other stories making headlines around the world this. a radical muslim cleric pledge links to al qaeda described as an lardons right hand that has been released from prison on bail in the u.k. extremist. has been in jail for six years last week a tribunal ruled he should be freed it is official say he poses a threat to the country's security attempts to what about jordan to face terrorism

charges have been blocked by the european court of human rights. extreme weather conditions are continuing to affect much of europe until they grow passengers had to be rescued after being stranded for three days on a train locked inside a tunnel one avalanche hasn't died helicopters have delivered aid to sailors trapped in a plan in serbia so this is a picture of staying closed for a second week to save energy and then romania retrieve planes during emergencies supplies snowbound villages. the snow some trapped in the u.s. . a computer software company has asked customs officials to win the imports and exports of apple i pads in china because of the speed over ownership of the name. brand new technology say the shipments while it their

ownership of the trademark in china they registered it in country in two thousand and one apple then bought the rights to the name from a company in taiwan affiliated with preview company says it still has rights to his name in china. russia's legal voters is demanding that the country's central channel's dr parentage prove bias have watches presidential election and legal standing for a fair election doesn't like the positive tone of reports about the prime minister saying it undermines others' chances but that is there a prescriber reports every candidate makes could use of there that interesting. when i write it out again it did take some heat to circle the most eccentric video in russia's presidential campaign urging to vote for the country's top populist led image in office in famous for his showmanship and occasional fist fights with fellow lawmakers. a civil. suit that this little mangy donkey has become

a symbol of our country the whole country has come to a standstill like this animal if i become president i will get moving again. less than a month to go and five candidates have blasted the streets with election posters desmond view is what t.v. promo's heated discussions have become part of everyday life as i started. already i don't course in a race the billionaire businessman mikhail crawford of promises their arrival of a new russia nothing new president known for his height riches and playboy past is the only new face on russia's political scene formally and a tory as party animal his reputation was once dented by an international sex scandal which has come back to haunt him on the web we are ready to al gore with all our plodding and solid as for the elections will win them anyway you can buy anything so you can buy your victory to three main candidates out of them in the

a crowd that is a band of the old time communist party leader has always relied on the pension of voters of home about one third of russia's population now his laurels all confiscated by signet all of them from an ok russia policy is the notion that means you can't even afford to milk whether pensioners. the competition has made zyuganov reach out to younger generation and offer them a brand new slogan there's always a choice to bloody put in the running for his time has refrained from getting involved in a campaign directly he has controversially refused to take part in any t.v. debates sending. representatives instead and he's promised to never show his face. when he doesn't go to television when he is a part of st paul when he's a part of the television coverage oh he's job as prime minister he has there is the only one that's a bit of the only kind that with so many resources so much media attention i think

that he wants to show that he is the only real candidate precisely by not going there as the campaign picks up steam it's expected so will the number of street protests both for and against putin and it's likely election twenty twelve will be remembered as one that got russians on their feet all of the latest opinion polls also show the level of putin the support keeps rolling across the country despite the wave of opposition protests i think the process tends to mobilize his core electorate because when people. are saying that you know the social benefits from the cart track three years that are inefficient because that's they should not interfere so much i think that the message that people get across russia is that like we should keep with him because even a song a recent online sensation praising the prime minister's virtues sung by supposedly

migrant worker it claims was you know putting all d.d.p. by his initials was sent to russia by god. i felt less power than many say this song is clearly too much and is just a club the heads in the meantime the electoral campaign will be a song with more surprises likely along the way there you just gave up party moscow . for the latest on the business well that would very. hello and welcome to business here on arts and we start this hour with russian crops where northern nature is once again playing tricks just a year after a severe drought the country's prime things are facing a cold test once again that sees beside a less than a bushel has more for us. the hole for some russian crops may have been damaged by

the extreme cold where the same film has its lead germany france and poland are also from spain low temperatures which of thirty three in some parts there is expected to skyrocket prices for things like bread week futures have been off ukraine and russian government warned they may limits exports to guarantee the mystic supply both countries are usually big exporters of grain global we proceed eleven percent in the second hole from general alone we will russia's top poured over receipts because suspended load at its grain terminal several times of the black sea froze over for the first time in thirty years a drop from july to november last year had already weakened crops. one company says fifty percent of the country's great crop could be damaged by heavy winds and the worst weather in a cool to of a century first. three great points have already been lost. but let's take

a look at the markets outside of the oil which is down but still hovering around a one month high and that's after the austerity plan approved by the greek parliament and tighten sanctions on iran interest climbed over two percent african police in control of more than one hundred tankers several start loading cargoes from iran. now moving on to asian markets which have reversed earlier losses and that's after bank of japan surprised the market by expanding its asset purchase program and bank says the additional one hundred twenty eight billion dollars will be used to project a nice governor. here russian markets have just opened and they are in the red the are three as is losing over a half a percent and on monday the markets gained the most in five weeks with energy majors being the biggest gainers looking ahead to the rest of the week talking monday from a great year says the russian investors will be waiting for a new economic data from the us and europe. u.s.

retail sales as well as java got strong production coming off except some numbers on the market turns to. look at those numbers as a reflection of how of you who are going to be is improving and the implication of that is also in the euro zone because so far i mean china i'm not stuck for the summer the transaction markets are numbers you could expect he's still names in particular to ronnie. also the world's largest diamond miner by i'll put may sell forty percent in an i.p.o. according to the corner sunday league of flotation worth over one billion dollars may take part in the second half of the senior. and that's all business looks the sour all back in about five minutes with more financial news here and i see feel free to check out our channel that's you tube but what slash business artsy or all websites artsy dot com.

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a bit of accusers tyrannical to straighten the texts. were for insight into the circle of tension contracting around iran we spoke to brian becker member of the antiwar coalition is up next. thank you for joining us on r.t. thank you but does the united states want from tightening the sanctions. even beyond tightening the sanctions now indeed it is the united states government has created an artificial crisis that's first and foremost it's a manufactured crisis iran is complying with the i.a.e.a. iran does not have a nuclear weapon iran is not threatening its neighbors iran has not started a war with any of its neighbors israel on the other hand has hundreds of nuclear weapons and unlike iran refuses to sign

a nuclear nonproliferation treaty does not allow. inspectors into its country so there's not really a nuclear menace or a nuclear again you're from ryan so what is the cause what's the cause of the crisis of the artificial crisis the real goal is the united states government has embarked on a course of extreme economic aggression against iran with the hope that by creating economic suffering economic isolation economic misery that part of the population will rise up or become disenfranchised with the government so that the u.s. can do as it has in history carry out regime change they deny that the us deny that it's trying to carry out their regime change in iran. i mean we have to take that with a very very big grain of salt because we know that since nine hundred seventy nine the united states refuses to have relations with the islamic republic of iran why is it because iran is a dictatorship well it's actually

a democratic government it has democratic features far beyond some of america's most foremost their allies in the middle east such as saudi arabia for instance since nine hundred seventy nine around you came in independent government before that between nine hundred fifty three and one thousand nine hundred seventy nine when the shah was there. the shah basically is a proxy or a puppet or a client of the american power and so the u.s. says they're not carrying out regime change but in fact everyone who's watching knows that indeed is the u.s. policy to create pressure on iran carry out covert operations economic sanctions and now these new sanctions are not really even like the old saying they are saying to the rest of the world give you dare do business with iran central bank if you buy iranian oil which constitutes half of iran's g.n.p. if you have any business with iran whatsoever you will not have access to american banks to american corporations to the american market this is in fact

a blockade something like an economic blockade of iran and by international law in economic blockade is an act of war and so we should understand it just like that so what do you think iran's response is going to be well iran so far has been very prudent even though they said that they would consider closing the strait of hormuz that six mile stretch of the persian arabian gulf where twenty five percent of the world's oil supply goes through. and even though much was made of that in the western media in fact iran has not done anything to give the u.s. . pretext an excuse a provocation sort of speak that would allow the united states or israel to trigger a set of military actions iran i think is also telling its people that we are not panicked we the iranian government are not panicked that they are trying to show

that they have a serenity and a calmness and a confidence and that they will weather the storm but in fact economic sanctions are taking a bite on the iranian economy right now there is a lot to see about this is really your last possible attack specially israeli. possible attack well street journal says that the u.s. is planning a plan b. as well attack i think the israelis try to pretend that iran constitutes an exorcist actual threat to israel i don't think that that in fact is the case even though iran's military has the capability to do great damage to israel in the event of a war even though israel is a nuclear power i think the israeli government has in a pattern and a practice of invasion and bombing of its neighbors in the middle east and it carried out the bomb you know borax nuclear facility in one thousand nine hundred one even though that was committed by international law and subject to i inspect in

other words nuclear program for civilian energy purposes israel came and bombed it they did the same to syria in the last few years and they would like to carry out military strikes against the iranian government and the americans don't want there right now even though they are happy to be have a run in a state of tension they don't really want israel to become the main protagonist with the iranian government by carrying out an unprovoked military strike i mean i'm talking about the main sectors in the american establishment because that would then present the crazes struggle between the islamic republic of iran on one side and the israeli's sinus regime on the other and in that case iran will be able to mobilize mass support throughout the middle east for it the united states has a different tact they want to keep israel sort of in the background looming danger in threatening iran in one way keeping iran in

a state of tension perhaps militarily but have the economic sanctions do the bulk of the work by carrying out economic and financial isolation against the iranian government they think in the long term that's the easier way the better way or the more effective way to carry out regime. change the u.s. has puzzled over israel's intentions so what if israel does decide to strike iran and this is a u.s. official says it's hard to know what's a bluster and what's not with israelis well i think a lot of polonium and nonsense the israelis are the recipient benefactor of three billion dollars a year in u.s. military aid if they do something that's completely contrary to what washington wants they will be on the very short end of the stick the israelis are not dominating and dictating u.s. policy in this geo strategically they're not work they are not they have a big influence in washington they have

a strong lobby but when it comes to iran or when it comes to iraq the israelis do not tell united states what to do its vice versa if israel strikes know if the conflict is presented that way between the islamic republic and israel the people of the middle east will really go to the side of iran the assassination of the iranian scientist which rick santorum called half a measure. where john bolton of. the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations the thank sions the tightening of the sanctions. that the u.s. is trying to build in what is the iran going to do to face all of this pressure well iran has certain elijah's to iran has russia and it has china increasingly it has venezuela and cuba and other words those governments in the world in addition of course to syria which has its own problems right now but the countries in the world don't want the entire world to be dominated by one power the

united states of america they recognize that the existence of iran as an independent government is something that is positive meaning that if the united states were were were to be successful in carrying out regime change in iran. they would be emboldened to carry out further destabilizing efforts against other powers including russia and china by the way even though there are great powers. so i think that iran has lies and i think iran is trying to show that they can weather the storm and also that they can rally their population in spite of the fact the divisions that were revealed in two thousand and nine after the elections the presidential elections the iranian people as a whole i don't believe they should be sanctioned the iranian people believe that they have as they do the right to develop nuclear power for peaceful civilian purposes and i think right now the iranian government is trying to weather the

storm they're also making it clear that they go to options that they have they have limited options they have limited options and and that's the big issue here i think is the. in america right now in the united states nobody feels this issue they don't feel there's a war looming they don't feel the problem of economic sanctions it's the iranians who are feeling it it's the tension the pressure of the economic problems are all one sided this is like a great power of the seven hundred pound gorilla who decides to sit wherever it wants to and it can create immense tension and pressure and economic suffering somewhere else without having to endure any political price so that that's the big problem and as a peace activist and as someone who believes in human rights in i think will do will see this more and more in the united states we are starting to concentrate our efforts to expose the fact that the united states government is carrying out

through a different set of tactics the same thing that they did in iraq they carried out regime change in iraq not to make iraq more democratic more human rights oriented but to dominate a wreck and i think they they want to do that in iran and we need to have people outside of iran stand up and say iran should not be alone and this does not presidential elections have anything and what's going on in really what's going to happen with iran in terms of. i think the presidential elections in the united states definitely play a role in u.s. policy towards iran that by the way has been the case ever since the iranian revolution in iran has factored into american politics in this case the republican candidates are sort of beating obama and suggesting that if obama is reelected we will have a nuclear iran someday soon what am i doing something just to counter their statements because it's an election year i don't think so i think that it's not out of the question that obama could opportunistically up the ante or even escalate

tensions or even allow some sort of limited military attack against iran in order to show how tough for years and how why. he's not a liberal or something like that but i don't think so this is a very big project for the pentagon for the cia for the us establishment i think it goes beyond electoral politics and i think the obama administration and the pentagon are i having a carefully calibrated approach that won't again with regime change the republicans and democrats share the same objective one is more demagogic we militant against iran and they both share the same objective which is to bring iran back into an american spirit of influence and i think the republicans can't move obama that much because obama actually has the backing of the pentagon in terms of this particular approach the pentagon is bogged down in afghanistan they really were pushed out of iraq they have a lot of a lot of military problems

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thought you knew you don't i'm sorry to. put to the test as the un general assembly scrutinizes the syrian crisis move is seen by some as an attempt to tighten the screws on russia and china. europe gets hit with yet another wave of downgrades its confidence collapses over the clocks future this is the new presses ahead and it's all still you can say against reluctant greece. and a new round in the blame game between israel and iran it's kind of like you just because for some it's diplomats. sports news next hour with andrew farmer and we both know how cold it is in moscow the most about minus twenty it was that big this

morning i can't imagine playing football in this weather but that's what players have been asked to do on their last ride at rubina due to face the m.p.r. course here and if he has time if he does go ahead kerry they will need gloves on the drums are good it is minus sixteen at the moment although there is a chance he could still be called off to details just after this fight. you're watching a sport here or nah. and these are the headlines on thin ice freezing conditions could start though to be sure a painter i would name p.r. cast in the russian capital. last card played angie sacco class new jan feeding speculation former england boss hello is a back to take charge of the russian economy and the club. was simply the best russian starshine in some of the world's best leagues skates of state we are into.

the first rubin europa league match with limpy our cost is under threat because of freezing conditions the first leg of this last thirty team clashes need to kick off in moscow this afternoon but will be subject to a late pitch inspection with temperatures around minus fifteen for cars with more is richard bump or flicked. trumpeter in the russian capital has plummeted in the last week a monday was a coldest do yet moscow's experience this winter the players were certainly prepared for whatever the weather could prove them seeming to work every available piece of clothing to try and combat the cold damp of those two saloon because these conditions have certainly been tough to get used to but we're here to play football again because if you ever decide the game should go ahead of me we will of course take to the field and do everything we can to win of course it will be tough to do .