egypt's opposition to the presidential palace amid nationwide protests against the country's leader mohamed morsi. earlier this week the birthplace of the arab spring . government protests. position figure. soon to be cia chief john brennan went through a confirmation hearing a cat calls and protests but it's still hard to tell where the architect of the targeted assassination program. plus concerns arise if the u.s. missile defense shield is. the goal repelling any possible strike from iran. syria. and russia countdown to the two thousand and four winter olympics with. spectacle the highly anticipated games are

shaping up to be the most expensive in history with huge overspending already costing a. lot for moscow recapping the week's top stories. to have you with us. egypt's opposition has called for more rallies and threatened to storm the presidential palace the protesters accuse mohamed morsi of not upholding the goals of the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak two years ago but turmoil has also been fueled by view authorities decision to block the video sharing web site you tube in the country for a month over its anti islam content but as artie's beltre reports the decision is

only likely to inflame more tensions. there's been a lot of condemnation of the by protest movement we see you keep it as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam is ation all egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling opposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to the section. justifying sex mob attacks on egyptian protesters in tahrir square you have a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the january twenty five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt complaining that their president morsi had not made key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of friday's day of dignity thousands of protesters gathered across the main running points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between county government

protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace when groups talk to the building with molotov they're pushed back by take us and water cannons and so bloody of violence in the in the governor with that same couple shake as well as violent clashes and. we have more protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime soon. gyptian journalist and blogger while counter president morsi and his allies actions are causing the country's citizens to become increasingly disillusioned but the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is restore autocratic rule and much like or. governing and i think the way the political actors see it is that was not ruthless enough and did not sign down on freedoms enough to sustain israel and this is what they're trying to remedy the you tube verdict comes in light of. you know many of the decisions that clamp down on so. and it's no

surprise that they will try to install the infrastructure necessary to clamp down on. various websites that they see as a threat to their rule where we're going to see more waves of protests and we're going to see more violence because if you look at the situation in egypt the region did not die the symbols just changed we just have new people following the same rules. another country rocked by unrest this week was tunisia public fury there has been ignited following the murder of a secular opposition leader chokri belle-isle you'd dozens were injured and more than three hundred people detained during the rallies which ended with anti-government demonstrators clashing with police archy's money for notion has been following the dramatic developments in the tunisian capital forty eight year old lawyer shockley belied criticize the islamist government for creating and really just state in tunisia and burying democracy now the light is dead but his

ideas are not the museum. the country has been in crisis economic political and social the ruling troika how to chone says it's been a year and a half but we didn't see any progress the death of our comrade becomes the last straw. anger moved to the streets with protesters demanding the authorities and mabel to protect its citizens to leave the. city with. some crying because below he was a symbol of dignity and a symbol of the defense of the country that this is a political assassination and that means the violence is not over. the interior ministry said that one million in the have joined the ceremony that turned into a political manifestation people said that if the crowd reached the city center it would have been the last day of the government. as your attend the funeral of shockey belayed on friday after the seventy try to make their way to the city is

made of and yet to continue and see government protests if they were not allowed to do that at least use tear gas immediately was such a mess such a city is packed with people but slogans we're hearing are completely different was carrying islamist flags people masterly in support of the ruling and not a party the local branch of the museum brotherhood police were at the scene to protest and demonstrators this time this reverse gathering didn't pull more than five thousand participants but the government used this to illustrate that their position was still strong. men did improve the people support and believe our party is. over but. they try to say face but don't have the choice they lost credibility and have no choice but to dissolve the government which is by de facto dissolved already. standing on the brink of

a political crisis prime minister protests to form a new cabinet and consisting of neutral politicians his own party rejected the plan and christenings idea of a possible farthest pleat and fears are growing that the political divisions may lead to even more victims because i was threaten to another guy from the opposition was attacked at the funerals i don't want to panic and say x.y.z. that person but there is a list of people those who fight for the revolutions principles liberty democracy dignity we're all in danger two years ago tunisia became the first nation to have an arab spring revolution and it has been hailed as a success story praised for the minimum of violence and turmoil but as we watch the country face a political implosion it's maybe only now notice it has been wound up tightly it's been sprung for three days clashes between police and protesters shook the country leaving many injured and cars burnt out across the city but it all finished as

quickly as it started just hours later the capital looks empty and come and the loudest noise here at the moment is sound of birds twittering. t. g.'s yeah. meanwhile the streets of europe are also lacking stability as a wave of a very wide protests in spain and ireland of this week with the people expressing their discontent over austerity policies the story and much more later in the program. john brennan barack obama's pick to head the cia and the architect of the drone assassination program had his senate confirmation hearing this week while critics accused lawmakers of giving john brennan an easy ride and some members of the public weren't shy in expressing their disapproval multiple protesters interrupted the session raising you toasters accusing brennan of being of a driving force by. and the so-called targeted killing operations human rights

activists claim the using drones against suspected terrorists is unlawful and leads to a high number of civilian casualties after demonstrators were removed from the hall lawmakers questioned brennan on torture and cia shortcomings however critics claim that these inquiries seem strictly ceremonial scholar and author calling a value says that given brennan's views and his confirmation could it set a troubling precedent. this is a complete denial of our constitutional rights under the fourteenth amendment due process of law and equal protection of the law and yet when the administration is doing here is there usurping the. united to the american citizens and saying that we can be judge jury and executioner we can do you know american citizens abroad without them having their court we can say they are yours and we can kill them

and the danger is this is when you look at ministrations says we can determine who are the jurors then that means they go anywhere in any american citizen. without any trial without any problems and that is a very dangerous precedent. on tuesday john brennan is set to go through a closed door classified hearing to iron out sensitive technicalities the debate is already bring about what direction he could take the cia as artie's going to church again comments. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability in their revolutionizing north america by allowing us to see and kill from path a world away

a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television touting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individual since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use of this young man in pakistan would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a drone more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity the numbers should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives us to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo on targeted assassinations from

the us justice department suggests the us government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america somebody a us citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against the united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed the spite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. has said to expand. it's remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world has redefined war during intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in the quiet because there was no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address claiming that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not worth john

brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war counts the new opportunities for the us to wage wars without risking american lives there's another reason a targeted strikes can be a wise choice strategic consequences that inevitably come with the use of force. as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further in washington i'm going to. be back with more news after a short break you're watching the tube.

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back you're watching the weekly here on our team classified studies have revealed that the planned multi-billion dollar us missile defense shield in europe might not be able to protect america from possible iranian air strikes russia has long been critical of the missile shield close to its borders which the u.s. insists strictly on preventing attacks from iran and north korea anti-nuclear campaigner bruce says despite the recent findings washington is likely to pour more money into the complex. i don't think it was ever intended to protect against iranian missiles something in fact that do not even exist today iran has no

nuclear weapons nor do they have the ability to launch a missile all the way to the united states clearly this missile defense system has always been about surrounding russia and china and that's why it doesn't the math doesn't work when you look at having it protect against an iranian system the fact is nato is expanding in its encircled mint russia i think we're only going to see more of these so called again missile defense deployments into various nato countries looking at how this only guard who runs our country today how the corporations control our congress i think it's clear that congress will continue to support these systems the new secretary of defense that obama is nominated chuck hagel former republican senator from nebraska was one of the co-sponsors in the

senate of the missile defense program so he clearly is a strong ally of the system. massive strikes have shaken the streets of spain this week as tens of thousands of teachers and students voiced of their anger over education cuts but the government seems to be turning a blind eye to the crowds and says it's committed to belt tightening measures as it struggles to dig the country out of its debt hole the message from the people of spain was echoed on the streets of ireland where tens of thousands of trade unionists gathered in a massive show of anger against a severe austerity measures though tough cuts were implemented to please ireland's creditors it's been relying on a joint e.u. international monetary fund loans since two thousand and ten. and angry crowds have been spoiling the mood of evil leaders as they celebrate in a historic budget deal cutting the blocks spending for the first time ever however the bill left the european parliament unimpressed with its m.p.'s now planning to block it over in during a private vote rather

a comma mr james midway weighs in. constitutionally they're well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at writing this no whether they actually do that will probably depend on the fine print in the budget or already present the e.u. parliament to said it would be able to support the steel and the heads of one of the major groups in the parliament the socialist group said that they were likely to support it so it's going to be a rocky ride i think this budget over the next few months cameron's right talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and still spend carry on spending more money now that's almost certainly what's going to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to pay into the main e.u. fund will increase as a result of increased payments to new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we can push the rest of europe around this glosses over the

fact of course that he would have got anywhere in this without the support of the angle of merkel in particular so he can even try to push that line that you know he knows what he's doing to europe and that we don't need to go so far as to step out of the european union but i wouldn't see the more euro skeptic members of his own party being particularly impressed by any of this. the syrian opposition leader says he is willing to negotiate with president assad's representatives in the north of the country but this comes as heavy fighting in the capital rages on with the rebels attacking damascus with mortar shells and roadside bombs they also seized several neighborhoods but were soon pushed out by a government counter-offensive dr ali mohamed from the syria tribune a news website says even if the opposition succeeds in its quest to to remove president assad the crisis will be far from over but this is just i mean it's just like there was this will be lighter and the sun will be nicer ones different than it is now and that's not a very you have a d.v.d. the can actually controlled it and the right even when the youth has listed that's

it on it's a black live with a nod of defending it because they know they cannot control it so no be because lucian is dreaming you believe that they can control the groups are sort of talking to beijing the odds of winning and the most important part is that these are the princes and they are well if you created people they are not full of the shoes they are not the fighters for freedom they are just work princes and the coalition will only be able to do the work of its founder and main financing. entity we ask them to do and if they don't do that they will lose this fight and think the support so they have to do this and simply have they don't know how to who and they cannot because they are not united and they don't have the same view was there it's a big mess and yet the west would like to see this big mess filling the currency. meanwhile in his last public appearance before retiring the pentagon chief leon

panetta admitted that he backed the plan of arming syrian rebels however the white house reportedly vetoed that idea russia's envoy to the un told r.t. that despite this the u.s. still has a lot to do with the ongoing crisis in syria we tell each irgens exclusive interviews coming your way later this hour but here is a quick look at the united states chose to stay clean of the bad guys at some point of the crisis the did realize it seems that things going very wrong you know that various terrorist groups were coming in that the radical islamists are we're we're we're active and the original scenario they had in mind that it would take just a couple of months to topple the assad regime and then that sort of democracy will triumph was completely unrealistic but i mean they're not us this is an extremely powerful country definitely with a lot of an influence on for example such a country as qatar which is reportedly the main source of weapons and support for

for armed opposition so the fact they simply say that they themselves are not doing that does not does not really absolve them completely from responsibility of what is happening in the. well look like a distant olympic dream for russians has now become a very close reality a countdown has kicked off across the country marking one year before russia hosts its first ever winter games but celebrations and praise for the unique facilities built from scratch went hand in hand with harsh criticism for overspending and missed deadlines are to center farmer reports from sochi. fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the winter games begin since two thousand and seven piece by piece the city has been putting its a limpy dream together in the company in charge of construction says russia will be

ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of host to test competitions all hotels and limpid villages are in the final phase of construction being refurbished and furnished the shed jewels to open in the also we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year said personnel can train a managers can gain experience in providing a good service however such a vast undertaking has not been without its problems presentation was in the region this week to check on progress and was taking no prisoners a ski jumping center the anything not yet up and running and it sparked this exchange with russian olympic officials are the costs of this whole facility costing what's the overall. initially we were assessing the amount of the loan with the story you what's a rough estimate. this initial price was one point two billion now it's

a it was three in one point two billion has turned into a billion yes well done good work let's move on. it resulted in the sacking of a key member of russia's limp dick committee at fifty billion dollars the sochi games will be the most expensive in italy history they have cost ten times more than the last one. games in vancouver and ten million dollars more than the new some eight games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the limpid which has six venues all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the june in the crown the bolshoi i studied. the past arena was she strike spectacular skating show it was part of the countdown celebrations and in a year's time it will host the and in the ice hockey finals in the she so tropical

like ation the slogan for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because the limbic park is them by their backs in case their i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place alone just forty kilometers away. progress is rapid up there to the rows of poor resorts has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing biathlon and cross-country courses have also been created along with the bob slate track and a road to rail in the last spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just a few minutes sochi itself has undergone massive upheaval as kilometers of road am rail lines are put in place a new hotels are built but the mayor believes the region will reap the benefits for years to come our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially. we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up

which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future there was a brilliant future. then has been overhauled in just six years but the transformation most complete from the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver the games to remember this time next year andrew farmer. softy. the olympic spirit also reached in new york this week where un chief ban ki moon joined the celebrations at the organization's headquarters for those of you who want to see the such a games in person tickets are already on sale and are available online.

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choose the consensus. choose the opinions that you. choose the stories that in the. choose. to. and welcome back you are with r.t. let's get right back to our top stories in mali french and government troops are battling the islamist militants in the northern city of gal the area was retaken from the rebels by the french backed government forces a fortnight ago earlier the city was rocked by two suicide bombings although only the bombers themselves were killed in these attacks the latest violence is feeding fears of a jihadist insurgency france says its campaign in mali is almost complete after

rebels were pushed from their positions into the desert two weeks ago but john laughland from the paris institute of democracy in cooperation believes the mali intervention could be part of a wider campaign for western domination of africa think the two main factors in this are france's own desire to strengthen the whole role on the international stage in particular beezer be no european partners and also the american strict future plans for africa it's important to know that america which strongly supports fronts in this mali and intervention has plans for establishing a military presence in the military control over the whole of the african continent some people speculated that used the phrase that this was america leading from behind that america decided to put forward its european allies to do as it were it's just the securing of energy resources is one of the key factors behind many if not most political developments today and that's why i say that the of course the

issue of hundred carbons and uranium and other energy sources is a key and may be the decisive factor. and now to some other world news for you this hour in brief. at least twenty people have reportedly been killed in a stampede at a railroad station in northern india after a crowded overpass collapsed local media say the death toll could rise in the accident occurred as tens of millions gathered on the banks of the ganges river for the religious festival. in the u.s. a one million dollars reward is being offered for any information leading to the arrest of the x. l.a.p.d. officer who has declared war on his former colleagues it's the fourth day of the manhunt for christopher dorner the dismissed officer accused of three murders officials promise of that they will look into the fugitives allegations of racism and corruption among his ex colleagues that has created an uproar on the internet.

torrential rains have caused severe flooding leaving at least six people dead in peru's southern city of our requests thousands of people were left without electricity and drinking water at least two bridges were destroyed cutting the city off from neighboring villages peru's rainy season typically begins in february often resulting in heavy flooding and landslides. a huge health care abuse scandal erupted in the u.k. this week a public inquiry revealed how hundreds of patients suffered at the hands of health workers tasked with looking after them the british prime minister david cameron officially apologized for the suffering caused by the issue only looks to be growing or he's probably boyko reports from the center of the controversy stafford hospital. my wife stop at hospital in september of two thousand and eight it was just a disaster is total chaos when you walk through the doors of the world you can

smell it. you cry and you know start from very little. to those who was left and to reach. the shoes and. she's great with going. to be. for you see. maybe carry. the death of john's wife is just one of the many horror stories turn merge from the now notorious stafford hospital before sandy would have been described to another state. song. in the most horrible circumstances. she should have to go through what she went through julie baby's mother died at stafford in what she calls appalling circumstances but when she blew the whistle on the hospital's practice says she was faced with a cover up all the evidence was there that the hospital mid staffs was failing and

the that was never shared with the public and i believe the same as in all the hospitals it's emerged that a string of senior officials failed to take seriously data which showed the hospital significantly higher than average death rates relatives of over a thousand people never got to see them discharged from the hospital patients died needlessly off the suffering a catalogue of neglect left in their own excrement dehydrated and without painkillers it's the biggest scandal to hit the national health service in recent years but with budgets being slashed and red tape preoccupying hospital manages a person's health secretary is warning that there are little bits of stuff that dotted all across the u.k.'s health system the results of the public inquiry into the hospital's failings are expected to issue a damning verdict on the way the whole of the n.h.s. functions it's got to be made safe to monitor because people can't continue to

suffer the hospital's chief executive has said west sorry that despite the progress that has been made there are still some instances of care which fall below that which we want to provide sorry might be too. late but the tide of public anger swelling campaign is saying it's time for westminster to overhaul. health service before any more lives and needlessly lost. stuff in it and of course we've got more stories for you online including a no from washington officials on building a death star well it doesn't stop persistent star wars fans fund raising a website kickstarter now allows you to personally finance the creation of the ultimate weapon of destruction more than three hundred fifty thousand dollars has already been raised. french police find themselves in a tricky situation within the suspect accused of committing a serious criminal offense a twin now a complicated d.n.a.

test to reveal which one of the brothers is guilty may cost one point three million dollars to carry out the full story on our website. a new federal agency a lie detector policy is being discussed by president obama's administration in the wake of allegations that authorities went beyond their legal limits during the screening of thousands of job applicants and employees of the federal government. takes a closer look at whether american security officials are overstepping their boundaries by making people disclose unnecessary personal information. for more than three decades john sullivan worked as a polygraph examiner for america's central intelligence agency today the retired cia employee is offering some strong opinions about the nation's lie detector policy too many honest people are too many people who should be passing their tests aren't and there's no there's no accountability for that.

last year more than seventy three thousand americans were reportedly required to undergo polygraph tests in order to get or keep jobs with the federal government according to an investigation by mcclatchy newspapers a growing number of u.s. agencies are asking employees and applicants intimate questions that extend way beyond the realm of national security probing matters such as sexual conduct financial matters and past personal relationships a woman was pressured to talk about her experience being molested as a child and when the polar bear for said that he refused to go on with the interrogation he alleges that he was pressured to go back and continue interrogating our scientists found that polygraphs aren't reliable enough to prevent innocent people from failing and deceptive candidates from passing i think it's important that the polygraph is not just. for screening it's an

interrogation tool lisa ribicoff is an independent polygraph examiner and investigator who uses the polygraph program designed by homeland security she contends that it's ninety eight percent accurate i do think that there are some questions pertaining to some emotional aspects and personal situations should not be included but i do understand why they're included on the basis of that the government needs to see how exactly what their breaking point is however applicants who are denied a coveted position after failing up. holograph are prohibited from accessing the records of their interrogation and are often barred from contesting the results were filing complaints in federal court in two thousand and four the cia veteran who conducted lie detector interrogations for thirty one years failed his own screening there was absolutely no question in my mind that the test was ray you know it's this was a terrible test sullivan lost his security clearance and was denied a job with

a federal contracting agency he claims his examiner falsified the results possible retribution for solving his book detailing america's polygraph system the obama administration is now promising to draft a new national polygraph policy that would prevent agencies from pushing legal or ethical boundaries during screenings but at the moment the program has no oversight or accountability meaning tens of thousands of u.s. citizens will continue getting personally probes in the name of national security bring up or nine r.t. new york. and there are many international issues that russia and the u.s. are often worlds apart on iran and syria among them after the break r.t. talks to russia's on void to the un about what the main points of contention are between moscow and washington and how they hamper progress in resolving the world's conflicts.

some countries want oil but that's kid stuff who needs oil when you could secure the world's largest supply of trucker darrow so-to located exclusively in sweden and he sweden for absolutely no logical reason is a possible you say well supreme commander of the swedish armed forces general severe guru and son must have watched red dawn too many times because he thinks the russians are a common general durance and declared that if invaded by russia sweden wouldn't be able to last a week against the onslaught therefore sweden must immediately join nato he said that currently it is not quite possible to invade sweden but due to the two thousand and eight war with georgia it is possible for russia to somehow push through established european borders bring their forces up to sweden's gates putting the generals country in danger but guess what according to your own council of the european union georgia started the war so by that logic if the two thousand

and one with georgia is the example of the future then don't kill russian peacekeeping troops and you'll have nothing to worry about but general gordon also made the point that president putin is rearming the russian army hinting at a threat of being heavily armed to defend yourself is a bad scary thing then joining up with nato seems to be pretty hypocritical if the people of sweden want to join nato well that is their choice but they shouldn't be tricked into having their taxpayers pay for their sons to die in afghanistan based on totally bogus arguments that make no sense but that's just my opinion. wealthy british style it's time to. market this weiner scandal. find out what's really happening to the global

economy is a report on r g. i'm very pleased to introduce russia's envoy to the united nations with the only choking that's a trick and thank you very much for making yourself available for this interview thank you let me begin with iran russia is about to sit down yet again for talks with five other world powers on iran's nuclear program the negotiations are due at the end of february the u.s. vice president joe biden said that the u.s. was ready for direct negotiations with the with iran do you see it as a breakthrough as a serious push for diplomacy on the part of washington well hopefully of course so

we're looking forward to or the resumption of the talks of the six. in late february and we have always welcomed the possibility of direct contacts between the united states and iran unfortunately over the years there's been some back and forth some positive statement. we're met by negative statements on the other side this time i understand there has been a strong negative statement from high level from tehran which which was saying that those talks were impossible the iranians are notoriously difficult to negotiators and of course the subject matter is very complex so on each particular issue there are always very difficult discussions it is. quite a challenge to make headway but there we believe that there has been some headway on the substance of those discussions and we hope that there is a good point from which the negotiators can proceed with making some progress just

speaking more generally when when talking about progress in relations with russia i heard many times the administration officials and members of the obama administration say well we've got russia quote unquote on board to put more pressure on iran in what context in what way do you see russia on board with the united states and i want our american colleagues have an interesting way of describing the situation they very often take to talk as as you try to call them in terms of their american positions and others coming over to those positions this is not the case at all this is not the way we see it when we enter into some discussions with the united states and other partners in various situations will try to find a common position so sometimes they move towards us sometimes it's a compromise where we have to do to come together midway this is the way we we sort of find a compromise we are prepared to continue working together within the format of the six even though we make no secret of the fact that i would think that some of the

things which are being done by some members of the six a counter productive because in addition to security council sanctions they piled up all sorts of unilateral sanctions which we believe are not necessary and needed as a mother of principle because. as once we're going to work together once we develop a certain system based on security council resolutions to add anything on top of that is sort of the wrong thing to do in our view this is creating some humanitarian problems in iran which should not be there it's creating some bad blood in the talks with iran which which is not really necessary if they and i mean the u.s. and israel together or separately were about to make the decision to strike iran is there anything that could stop them you know i hope for common sense and good reason will stop them because this will be the worst thing to do well first of all of the opportunities for.