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. gross's league of voters is demanding that the country's central t.v. channels drop their alleged pro putin bias ahead of march's presidential election the league's standing for a fair election doesn't like a positive count of reports about the prime minister saying it undermines others' chances and starts he's diary of chicago reports every candidate makes good use but there are a lot of air time. what i am right now here live here takes it to search for the most eccentric video in russia's presidential campaign urging to vote for the country's top populist blood image anoxic famous for his showmanship and occasional fistfight with fellow though make his. several years see that this little mangy

donkey has become a symbol of our country the whole country has gone to a standstill like this animal if i become president we'll get moving again. less than a month ago and five candidates have blasted the streets with election posters dazzling view is what d.d. promos heated discussions have become part of everyday life but. i doubt course in the race the billionaire businessman mikhail prokhorov promises their arrival of a new russia i think you president known for his quite riches and playboy past he's the only new face on russia's political scene formally and a tory his party animal his reputation was once dented by an international sex scandal which has come back to haunt him on the lead we are ready to al gore though our body and soul as for the elections will win them anyway you can buy anything so you can buy your victory to the remaining candidates are family a crowd here that is one of the all time communist party leader has always relied

on pensioner voters who form about one third of russia's population now his laurels al qantas's once again it all of that from an ok russia policy is the notion that means you can't even afford to milk merryweather pensioners. the competition has made the line of reach out to younger generation and offer them a brand new slogan there's always a choice bloody not put in the running for his that 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 his promos never show his face. when he doesn't go to television when he's part of a street politics where he's a part of joe told us uncover it or use our job as prime minister he is there is the only one that say the only candidate with so many resources so much media

attention i think that he wants to show that he's the only real kind of that's precisely why not go in there as the campaign makes up steam it's expected so will the number of street protests both for and against britain and it's likely election twenty twelve will be remembered as one that the prussians on their feet all of the latest opinion polls also show the level of putting supports keeps rolling across the country despite the wave of opposition protests i think that brought us tend to mobile life is correlate because when people. are saying that you know that social benefits will be caught track careers that are inefficient because that stage would not interfere so much i think that the message that people gather cross russia is that we should keep pushing because even a song and recent online sensation praising the prime minister's virtues sung by supposedly migrant worker it claims well you know one thing all d.d.p.

by his initials was sent to russia by gawd. i can't let. go of the many say this song is clearly too much and is just another thanks in the meantime the electoral count game will be sawn with more surprises likely along the way gary fish goes off party a storm. let's take a look now at some other stories from around the world this hour a radical muslim cleric with a. really strong. and said to have been in lot of right hand man has been released from prison on bail in the u.k. extreme or extremist preacher i should say a blue collar has been in jail for six years but last week tribunals ruled he should be free british officials say he poses a threat to the country's security but attempts to deport him back to jordan to

face terrorism charges have been blocked by the european court of human rights. police have fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters in bahrain capital ahead of the first anniversary approaches marquess the demonstrations crowds were attending an anti-government rally i think for a pro round about where the country's uprising began your ago at least sixty people have died since the shia led protests began last february they're demanding a constitutional monarchy. subserve the northern kosovo are holding a referendum on whether they accept the current rule of the self-proclaimed republic i hope results of a two day bobo have legitimacy to their struggle to reunite with serbia belgrade though has condemned the referendum saying this will complicate dialogue with the brink way state kosovo declared independence in february two thousand and eight but its status is still not recognized by many countries. oh gearing up for

a playoff kickoff in the moscow frost a preview of tonight's game between rubin and greece's and condos is coming up in our chief sports builtin in about twenty five minutes but first a business. hello and welcome to business here and i see. whether mother nature is once again playing tricks just a year after a severe drought the country sponsons are facing a cold once again and i seize business on a less than noble szell has more. to hold troops may have been done. why the extreme cold weather say worried film has its lead germany france and poland are also risk from sustained low temperatures which if it's minus thirty three in some polls that's expected to skyrocket prices for things like bread we'd futures have been off the ukraine government warns they may limit exports to guarantee the

mystic supply both countries are usually big exporters of grain global we proceed eleven percent in the second half of january alone we will russia's top or no receipts because suspended load at its grain terminal civil symes after the black sea froze over for the first time in thirty years of drought from july to november last year had already weakened crops and had russia's so than one company says fifty percent of the country's great crop could be damaged by heavy winds and the worst weather in a quarter of a century first. show one in three great points have already been lost. let's take a look at the markets our start with exchange rates think they're all sweating just i'm not sure against the dollar and that's after being down in the early asian trading due to rating downgrade by moody's or sorry about that a little bit later the move five all rating agencies ways on this group are going to see more of losses against the euro and overpowered. by the signal about oil

prices crude is the next they're hovering around a one month high and that's after the us there is an approval five or three parliaments and i think sanctions on iran interest climbed over two percent after companies in control of more than one hundred times are said they would stop loading cargo from iraq. european stocks are up next this hour with sentiment weighed by a fresh crop of downgrades anybody to start by movies they raise an agency not two notches off saying sorry but grading and cuts out logs on the u.k. and france too negative. here russia markets are now in the positive territory with the myself and others. half a percent doesn't pull it out the index and reverse i regime majors are makes the sour of rolls left is only red and traders say investors are moving their stock from the company that's after all snuffed increased time capital expenditures for this new year meanwhile the call is one percent higher and these be back has reversed earlier losses and is now at a cultural one percent talk monday from all three outlines what stocks investors

will be focused on this week investors will be most focused on stocks which are most leveraged on a successful outcome for greece and also relatively well sponsored modestly prices in traditionally russia that what we might be to stocks that still names are in the financials as well so the market should be quite focused on games like yours because it sort of started retro. amongst the various p.t.b. a lot will depend on how the market interrupts the events in greece. but another you saw growth of the world's largest carbon miner by i'll put myself wasn't the signs of an i.p.o. according to a corner sunday leave the flotation worth over one billion dollars may take part in the second half of the year. in germany beer lovers will soon have the opportunity to enjoy a new brand of their favorite beverage and that's because russia's six largest

brewer a south of us has decided to start up production in the european country the company plans to increase its presence in the german markets handful this year by brewing five million liters of beer a chuckle or says it's forced to expand the broad. regulatory pressure on russia's b. of markets. that's all business news for now on the says that's for the headlines. over. the. long.

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here with r t a line from moscow our top stories what are the types of the un general assembly scrutinize the syrian crisis the move is seen by some as an attempt to tighten the screws on russia and china and push through a new resolution two nations consider one side that. you're getting paid with yet another way to downgrade those confidence collapses over the bond future this as the e.u. presses i had with its austerity crusade against the reluctant great. china's

vice president arrives in the us from two giants struggle to find common ground against the backdrop of an american military buildup in asia pacific. both circle of tension it is contradicting iraq contracting i should say around iran is televisa curious is that of orchestrating attacks on israeli diplomats it comes amid strained relations in the region with the west deeply concerned over to iran's controversial nuclear program for more on that are to talk to brian bakker a member of the answer and to work with us. 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 now 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 danger from iran and 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 play 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 u.s. denied that it's trying to carry out a regime change in iran but right i mean we have to take with

a very very big grain of salt because we know that since nine hundred seventy nine the united states refuses they 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 became in independent government before that between one 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 overt 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 something like an economic blockade of iran and by international law in economic blockade is 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 us. a

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 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 wall street journal says that the u.s. is planning a plan b. should as well attack i think the israelis try to pretend that iran constitutes an axis stachel 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 it carried out the bombing of a racks a nuclear facility in one thousand nine hundred one even though that was primitive by international law and subject to spectrums 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 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 israelis zionist 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 lou mean 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 that is baloney and nonsense the israelis are the recipient the 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 in dictating u.s. policy in this geo strategic we're in or 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 to the side of around the assassination of the iranian scientist which rick santorum called half an answer. or john bolton of. the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations the sanctions the tightening of the sanctions the . coalition that the u.s. is trying to build against iran but what is iran going to do to face all of this pressure well iran has certain l i's to iran has russia and it has china

increasingly it has venezuela and cuba another words those governments in the world in addition of course the syria which has its own problems right now but the countries in the world that don't want the entire world to be done many did 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 they're great powers. so i think that iran has allies and i think iran is trying to show that they can weather the storm and also that they can relieve their population in spite of the fact that the visions 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 sanction 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 do it options that they have they have limited options they have limited options and and that's the big issue here i think is that. 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 the seven hundred pound gorilla who decides to sit wherever it wants to sit 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 the dominate iraq 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 unless there's the presidential elections have any say in 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 armed iran someday soon well i do 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 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 americans fear 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 a major full scale war right now which could happen even if they don't intend it by people climb the escalation ladder. welcome british scientists the tasks of the. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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if the bucs. alex cohen. hard to top stories but to the tabs as the u.n. general assembly scrutinize the syrian crisis the movie team fight song out of time titled the screws are russia and china they push through a new resolution determination consider one right. leg europe gets hit with yet another wave of downgrades as competent collapses over the park's future this as the e.u. presses ahead of its austerity crusade against her will run through greece. and trying to fight the rival the us for the giant struggle to find common ground against the backdrop of an american military buildup in the asia pacific. over to

andrew for the latest sport. hello there thanks for watching the sporting these are the headlines game on we'll be sure to inside between the articles gets to go ahead and subzero temperatures in the russian capital. like financial if you strike a carlos tevez says he's ready to play for the club again after three months exile . in the some of the world's biggest i take two yards into our. first rubin's europa league match with n.p.r. course is set to go ahead despite the freezing conditions the first leg of the last thirty two match kicks off in fifteen minutes time after officials said they were happy with illusion making the pitch even though temperatures around minus thirteen

with the build up is right to fulfill it. the temperature in the russian capital has plummeted over the last week a monday was a coldest day yet it's the most has experienced this when turn plays were certainly prepared for whatever weather confers been seeming to wear every available piece of clothing to try and combat the cold damp of visitors limpia course conditions are certainly been tough to get used to. we're here to play football if you even decide the game should go ahead we will of course take to the field and do everything we can to win of course it will be tough under you wait for regulations of the temperatures below minus fifteen and the match to be called golf and rubin head coach called one good beer of says he's not prepared to let his players play in such cold conditions but last year we played in the same sort of weather we're going to see twenty here and we lost so i wouldn't see it as conditions in favor of .