moderate cleric hassen rowhani takes almost fifty one percent of the vote to become iran's new president the question now for the outside world is whether he'll change the country's nuclear ambitions. syria calls u.s. claims that used chemical weapons fabricated russia which is also unconvinced condemns washington's decision to arm rebels as an undermining of peace efforts. and turkish medics are threatened with their licenses for treating injured protesters in a stumbles gezi park as the prime minister says force will be used if demonstrators that don't go home.

will come along to r.t. coming to you live from moscow it is nine pm in the russian capital moderate cleric rouhani is iran's new president the reformist backed former secretary of the supremum national security council nucular negotiator one fifty one percent of the vote in an election to avoid a runoff he will inherit a country with an economy by western sanctions aimed at tehran's nuclear program. was following the vote and reports from the capital. people have taken to the streets of tehran to celebrate their victory all of us on the money that is there right now. that's a hot victory has provoked mixed feelings a man iran's mistaken said is known as a reformist and carries the hope of many specially in terms of greater freedoms boiron and surrounds diplomatic isolation the country has been on the top section

spoke. over its controversial nuclear program during his campaign. has promised to prepare charter response the economy and improve the broken relations with the west he plays a back to his good side that was many times making remarks that cost the country and predictability but at the same time a little bit of you here and there on realize that what the iranians system works with major power held by the supreme leader of the president can do little to change things dramatically the supreme leader has the final say on big issues like terence disputed nuclear problem oh syria for example. say that the next president can at least trains this time out of runs dealings with the outside world the moment chief nuclear negotiator is never off his consulting approach he's

a target instead of close to saying. look we have a new president but. it turns off the chance maybe the hockey is among the least some conservatives and they could be the party comes to new iraq. well the west will now be hoping that a reformist president in iran could change the nation's approach to its nuclear program former u.s. national security council and state department officials flynt and hillary mann leverett shared their predictions with my colleague sean thomas there's a constraint in washington not not in terror on that at this point many of the saying sions have been written into u.s. law and president obama even if iran did everything the u.s. wants it to do on the nuclear issue he's not able to lift many of the sanctions now and last he also was able to certify that congress that iran is cut off all ties to

groups that the u.s. government insists on calling terrorist organizations and is basically become a secular liberal state obama and the united states are now him then on sanctions and so even if iran offered up some concessions which is hillary said i don't think it's going to do it's not really clear iran would get much in return a new round of u.s. sanctions are coming into order on july first how do you see the next leader handling this long standing issue each of the candidates that have been put before the iranian public each of them has expressed concern about the sanctions each of them has expressed real concern about the economy and as such has come up with various plans to address the economic points on iran's agenda whoever is the next president is going to put the economy very close to the top of their list and to addressing the sanctions but it would be a mistake to believe that the next president even if it is someone that would be more to washington's liking that next president is going to make any substantially

different concessions on the nuclear issue chip it appears washington to ease the sanctions. still ahead for you this hour on our say who owes who world leaders can expect a welcome as anti capitalist protesters in the u.k. come together head of a g. eight meeting to claim banks and corporations are responsible for the country's debt and should be paying up. the reports on how the man who blew the whistle on american government espionage against their own citizens is getting a lot of public support. syria's government has condemned claims by washington that it used chemical weapons as a caravan of lies based on the fabricated information damascus also accused the white house of double standards in dealing with terrorism after it announced it would send weapons to rebels the u.s. could also impose a no fly zone over parts of syria artie's gun each account has more details. the

white house says it's the session to arm syrian rebels is based on intelligence that the assad government has used chemical weapons the mask denies the allegations washington cites its own intelligence community as well as french and british intelligence a u.s. official who declined to be identified told the media here that according to a cia report the u.s. has acquired blood urine and hair samples from two syrian rebels one dead and one wounded and according to the cia report those two rebels were exposed to nerve agent sarin brian becker he is here with me today to talk about thank you what the administration tries to present as definitive evidence that the assad government has used chemical weapons we don't know much about the evidence that they have but this report about two rebels do you think that could be enough for the cia to come up with definitive conclusions well no the evidence is dubious it's very scant in fact but it's really not about the evidence it's not even about weapons of mass

destruction it's not about sarah nerve gas there's been an acknowledgement in washington that if you want to take this country to war either by bombing another country or intervening or occupying raise the specter of weapons of mass destruction and that's the ticket in order to get massive media coverage justifying an escalation and that's what's going on there's been a decision taken by the white house to escalate this is just a red herring not a red line the phrase that we often hear in washington these days is we need to tip the balance seen the other direction meaning in the direction of the rebels but behind that technical sounding phrase tipping the balance is a lot of killing that would have to be done to achieve that goal right to what lengths do you think the u.s. is ready to go to achieve a desired outcome in syria tipping the balance is just a euphemism and in fact bizarre and ridiculous the fact of the matter is this civil war which is taking ninety three thousand. according to the united nations was

fueled by outside forces got their turkey saudi arabia who are they are the proxies or allies of the united states and britain and france nato powers they've been funneling arms into syria creating the conditions for civil war in fact promoting civil war i would say they have a lot of blood on their hands senator mccain is a very active supporter of of an aggressive u.s. intervention in syria and he's everywhere now on all news channels applauding the administration's decision to arm the rebels in one of the interviews he suggested that he'd talk all the way to extremists taking over syria because they would not be allied with iran and it's not just him who constantly mentions iran in the context of these discussions how much of this is about in your opinion well john mccain's comments are very interesting but but not unusual if you look back at the last thirty years the united states has made the my enemy's enemy is my friend the theme of its foreign policy is. being against the afghan government because it was

a socialist government and aligned with the soviet union mccain is a cheerleader for war but what is the real goal yes iran is the target iran ultimately because of its alliance with syria its alliance with hezbollah in lebanon ultimately the u.s. wants to destroy it. weaken hezbollah and finally destroy the islamic republic of iran not because it wants a more democratic iran but because it wants a puppet government or proxy like they used to have when they have the shah. the fear is that the message that the rebels will receive with the weapons is not go sit down and talk the message will be go fight and kill which kind of kills the chances of a political solution doesn't it brian becker anti-war activist in washington i'm going to. well russia is also unconvinced by america's chemical weapons findings saying it would make no sense for assad to deploy a toxic foreign minister sergey lavrov also slammed washington's decision to the rebels saying it undermined peace efforts. he has more on moscow's response. the

russian foreign minister revealed that it was very regrettable that when the allegations of rebel syrian rebels using chemical weapons at the town of aleppo were made public by the syrian government it's time to ask the u.n. commission to investigate and nothing was eventually done but only when the allegations of the syrian government using the chemical weapon of weapons appeared to them experts thought it was conduct a certain investigation on this matter also revealed that for some time his partners in the west and israel have been saying all along that the syrian government would only use chemical weapons if it's backed against the wall. of the syrian regime hasn't been pushed into the corner the regime according to the rebels is advancing on the ground what's the point of the regime using chemical weapons and in such small amounts to set itself up. with the chemical weapons usage by the syrian government the alleged chemical weapons usage now being hotly debated

across the atlantic as well as the calls to arm the syrian rebels a lover of said that he didn't believe that the red line the so-called red line was actually crossed first of all because what the united states believes to be the proof of assad using chemical weapons is not a substantial proof at all mainly because the prove gathering process itself was not made in accordance with international regulations. just. there are certain rules of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which suggest that samples of blood urine and clothes and soils can be classed as evidence only if these samples were collected by the organizations experts and if these experts controlled the samples and rude to the board tories are u.s. colleagues failed to assurance that these procedures were here to lever off also reminded that recently allegedly its wealth people from the front of syrian rebels

were detained in turkey carrying chemical weapons also unconfirmed reports of chemical weapons being produced in iraq for the syrian rebels of love rauf found it's very regrettable as well that these reports even despite being unconfirmed did not cause any concerns in the west well today we'll be keeping you fully up to date with the chemical weapons allegations involving both sides of the syrian conflict among other things our website looks at the un commission report from a month ago the revealed suspicions of the opposition not the government was behind the use of sarin gas in syria it's a dot com for that and much more. the turkish prime minister has issued yet another warning to protesters saying security forces will intervene if they don't clear istanbul's taksim square by sunday to one address tens of thousands of his supporters in an anker a suburb in an attempt to counter anti-government demonstrations he labeled the

protesters traitors and vandals accusing them of being in the pay of foreign forces meanwhile volunteer doctors have become the latest target of turkish authorities the health ministry has demanded the names of all medics who treated protesters in gezi park where the trouble was centered they could now have their license is suspended despite insisting it's their humanitarian g.t. to treat the injured caesar in a glasgow has more from istanbul. medical professionals have been out on taksim square and gezi park since day one helping out those who have been injured in clashes with police and just those who have needed medical attention while camping out here in the park for almost book for two weeks at this point but the problem is now they are under fire from the turkish government that is largely the reason why we're standing here and not inside the medical tent itself because the people who are working there all of the medical professionals all of them working in other hospitals and clinics all over istanbul and practically all over turkey at this point they are doing so they're working here rather illegally they're doing so

without the permit from the ministry of health and just recently information has come to the surface which says the minister of health care has issued several letters of warning so to speak to the doctors who are working here they have numerous questions to the medical professionals as to how many people where the helping who are those people what kind of injuries have been occurring basically a lot of questions all of which need to be documented and forwarded to the ministry of health if this isn't done so the ministry of health says it will suspend the doctors or medical professionals licenses so this is why the people inside these tents and inside gezi park do not want their faces on camera their representative has agreed to talk to us and told us exactly what is happening in the gezi park. recently we were inspected by the ministry of health he said that what we are doing here is wrong but there could be no punishment for those who are helping people there is no such religion or all the could discriminate against us they made a big mistake by dispersing the crowds and now they should think twice before

making any decisions doctors are not the only ones who have come under fire from the turkish government in recent weeks just the beginning of this week more than fifty lawyers have been arrested in their connection with the protests rather they were arrested for protesting outside of taksim square not too far away from here expressing their opposition to the fact that the mass beatings and brutal force was used by. stumbled police in dispersing the protesters again on tuesday and just to give you an idea more than eleven hundred people just from begins the park alone have turned for medical attention in the gezi park after tuesday's clashes with police the lawyers were expressing their discontent with the situation the country and with the brutal force used by police now some of the people that we have spoken to are saying that the turkish government has already cracked down on journalists essentially stifling freedom of speech and of media in the country they have also

put their thumb down on the lawyers and now it looks like they're after a medical professionals so there is sort of a joke going around the gezi park because they're trying to figure out which profession will come under fire from prime minister erdogan after this in istanbul r.t. well austin mackell a specialist on the middle east who's covered under arrest in the region says the protestors have little chance of getting their message across unless they unified. what we see here is it isn't been a primarily phenomena and from secular western face it's the kind who used to having a very in a lobster roll in politics in china having allowed the place a more powerful voice than that presence in the country and the think the the rise to power of the islamists was upset it's now and then you know this is a really positive element to the protests and the sort of the young kids in just part of who you know we in the west and elsewhere around the world can identify

with that yearning to be greater freedoms but there's a real danger that is that if the jersey kids don't get their act together sort of state that they what they're going to do is end mainly benefiting the generals and the old school secular authorities and. i think the first impulse off and on was pretty much the same as the first impulse of assad that is to suppress the mr sarkozy was it was a dictator he acted like a dictator mr other one has been elected to and he's acting in a wrong way but good but don't come with this comparison which with syria it doesn't fly.

you're watching i'll tell you let's continue with the world headlines a mass rally has been held in belfast to challenge the policies and priorities of

world leaders due to meet the g eight summit in northern ireland on monday over a thousand people marched against big corporations accused of dodging the payment of huge huge sums of toxic follows protest in london where riot police moved against demonstrators to disperse them after an hour's long standoff alton's police boyko has the details. and here austerity campaigners and environmentalist have gathered here in what they call the penthouse suite of global capitalism otherwise known as canary wharf london's business district home to a number of banks such as j.p. morgan and barclays now it's an event called they owe us and their day in the title is aimed squarely at g. eight leaders who are set to meet for the start of the g eight summit hosted by britain in northern ireland on monday the protesters gathered here come from a number of different organizations but they all say that they're concerned with one thing and that's the concentration of wealth and power that the g eight summit

represents so next week at the g eight david cameron is going to be saying that he's saving the world he's come out with all these great policies that make things better for you know that's just not true he's making decisions and all those leads in fact making decisions that are in the interests of the financing to haitians of these large corporations and the interests of normal people we've got the banks out so. according to me we've got the banks out of means they're in debt to us you know we're doing that so that the simple stuff earlier this week anti capitalist protesters clashed with riot police in central london and around sixty arrests were made what was on the lips of many of the protesters are expected to today's inequalities while this business district is home to a number of investment banks separate the god of territory norm one of the. in the forest areas where for as of ten children have been focusing on. spending cuts and purchases him pointing the finger of blame at the banks and the politicians reporting from canary wharf in london. well there's plenty more stories on our

website including a strong pirate frenchman sentenced to life for illegal downloading is the first time ever in the country's history that a person. from the internet. and across the atlantic about half a million homes are left in the dark about software stormfront almost four hundred kilometers wide caused mass blackouts in the u.s. we've got footage. the standoff between the u.s. and china has taken a new twist amid revelations of potentially wholesale industrial espionage by washington the same system that spies on millions of americans is alleged to be stealing the communications of countless chinese the idea of being spied on is not

to displays of anger outside capitol hill although even protesting is proving a challenge. you know it's only your industry without a permit. there's really little we are entitled to because you're right there what do you think about it children have said that we're not more than twenty people in the group because apparently more than twenty people are angry you can't have a demonstration without a permit so we're going to come over into the park maybe we'll just have a press conference we're supposed to have the ability to congregate to address grievances to our government this is the one of the biggest scandals ever and we're not. to do that what does that say protestors here voiced their support for edward snowden the man who admitted to being the source of leaking classified documents to the guardian he exposed widespread government surveillance being conducted by the n.s.a.

amid these revelations protesters here voiced their concern about unchecked government powers i think these discussions about snowden are really a distraction what we need to be focusing on isn't whether or not what he did was lawful it's whether or not what the agency did was lawful what we do or don't do as a society about this massive accumulation of power through the controlling. information about people's personal lives as well as there's. information gathered every. gadget. while protesters here celebrate snowden's actions calling him a whistleblower some calling him a hero government officials have condemned his actions including some members of congress snowden is believed to be in hong kong right now. here at the capital is wall r.t. . and in hong kong hundreds have also taken to the streets in support of edward snowden demonstrators urged their government not to extradite the n.s.a.

whistleblower lashing out at the u.s. sweeping surveillance program he exposed they also handed over a letter to the u.s. consulate accusing washington of allegedly conducting cyber warfare against hong kong violating the rights of people there and around the world. turning to some other international news now and starting to stammer at least fourteen people have been killed by a bus bomb at a university for women in the city of quiet or another blast was then reported at the hospital where the injured were being treated followed by a fierce gunfight in which at least four security officers and four attackers were killed and in a separate attack three rocket propelled grenades hit the former residence of pakistan's founder hammad ali jinnah. this morning rest in libya's city of benghazi where special forces have clashed with armed gangs outside a military base in the east of the city six soldiers have been confirmed dead so far earlier on friday a group of men forced their way into

a different on the compound to steal weapons tension between the population and the military has been on the rise in benghazi says the ousting of colonel gadhafi two years ago. a blast at a second a chemical plant in louisiana and as many days as killed at least one person and injured seven others the accident happened as explosive nitrogen was being moved but pin from the international action center told us companies and politicians often accuse of turning a blind eye to a disaster when profits are at risk. louisiana is what's called a right to work state in the united states right to work being you know euphemism for being that workers are not allowed the form of close shop contract and so there's hostile anti-union legislation that makes it very difficult for workers to organize them to form unions so as a result of that it's much more likely that that the working conditions in such

factories where that are non-unionized in states where there's a culture of anti-union politics it's much more likely that they would they would have these kinds of accidents really you know industry is organized to make profits for a small group of people and the needs of the workers are last in the lives of the workers and their safety is last in the financial calculation the infrastructure of the united states is largely it's largely lacking and it's falling apart in many places. coming up in our program prime interest solar powered money myself and break a one off thing. you know when i was in school they would tell us stories about that other goofy economic system in the eastern bloc and about why it was doomed to fail they tell

us how terrified communist bureaucrats would work very hard to give the illusion of a fish and see when their bosses were in town a century out of fear they would try to convince the state that everything was just fine they promise of a fresh coat of paint on some stuff bump up their numbers in the books and get employees to put a smile on for the cameras so they wouldn't lose their jobs yeah this our teachers told us was a sign of true doomed economics rolling the clock forward twenty or thirty years the bosses of the current global economic system are in town and many locations around the upcoming g eight summit in northern ireland are doing their best to hide their economic downturn from the media according to our t.v. news the government of northern ireland has spent two million pounds dealing with derelict buildings some of these buildings have simply been knocked out but some have been spruced up like butcher shops with images of meat stuck over the windows to hide their barren interiors or the now famous local office supply store which contains no office supplies at all but it sure does look nice and i guess that's what counts spending two million pounds to hype economic downturn from the g eight

and other eyes whether than spending it actually you know improving the local economy seems like doomed economic practices to me but that's just my opinion. and good afternoon and welcome to prime and it's coming to you live from washington d.c. i'm carrie and boy let's get to today's top story. now prices are rising according to the latest consumer price inflation statistic released this morning both headline and core up two percent year over year and monthly price inflation

was up zero point seven percent after no change in january no need to worry because the fed defines these prices as stable and speaking of the fad of burning q b f after john hilson rabb came to the markets rescued yesterday causing a late day rally to wall street journal correspondent said that we've taken the fed's recent tapering comment too harshly so just peter you know the fed has one thing in the markets go down in the us james does another in the market go up anyway the latest episode of dancing with the fad of fate that features the bernanke and you won't want to miss the amusing episode next wednesday when the f o m c attempts to correct current market expectations. finally do you remember the independent foreclosure review which broke the phone reserve and the o.c.c. signed off on well the ten thousand displaced homeowners who got pennies on the dollar for their trouble still do senator elizabeth the.