a meeting. president mahmoud ahmadinejad will address the meeting, with blistering words. >> you have been condemnedongly in america for a comment you are said to have made that you wanted israel to be wiped off the map. wiped off the face of the earth. there would be many different interpretations of what you said. you have disputed the meaning that was then translated from the original farsi. let me give you this opportunity to say exactly what you did say, and to say exactly what you did mean. >> we have been condemned in the united states for many things. for having deposed a dictator with the revolution. for having sought freedom and free elections. for not allowing our oil and national treasure to leave our country freely. in -- for having stood up to very dangerous terrorists in the region. for having stood up against saddam hussein who enjoyed the back of many, we stood up against him. we have been condemned for a great many things because we said justice for all. the rule of law for all. the right of peaceful nuclear energy for all. >> but do you want -- mr. president, do you want -- >> all

a meeting. president mahmoud ahmadinejad will address the meeting, with blistering words. >> you have been condemnedgly in america for a comment you are said to have made that you wanted israel to be wiped off the map. wiped off the face of the earth. there would be many different interpretations of what you said. you have disputed the meaning that was then translated from the original farsi. let me give you this opportunity to say exactly what you did say, and to say exactly what you did mean. >> we have been condemned in the united states for many things. for having deposed a dictator with the revolution. for having sought freedom and free elections. for not allowing our oil and national treasure to leave our country freely. in -- for having stood up to very dangerous terrorists in the region. for having stood up against saddam hussein who enjoyed the back of many, we stood up against him. we have been condemned for a great many things because we said justice for all. the rule of law for all. the right of peaceful nuclear energy for all. >> but do you want -- mr. president, do you want -- >> allow

around there wasn't a ground operation in june twenty thirty in iran will be holding a presidential election mahmoud ahmadinejad won't be running having served the maximum two terms in the side from that there's no certainty as to who will take over at a tense time when iran's nuclear program continues to be a thorn in some western nations side journalist afshin rattansi who is often shared his thoughts with us doesn't think the new leader will bend to foreign will. i think whoever we people of iran elects policy foreign policy terms things are going to be much the same terminology of western corporate media on this or a bizarre image of the islamic extremists in all sorts of different morning because the point is iran is there to stay in terms of forging a very different type of developing nation economy because it has all that oil it has all those resources and it's not going to suddenly start changing things the way the i.m.f. or the way washington wants it to be. now in europe people are making their new year wishes and plenty of them have their fingers crossed that things will be a little less

very tense to input saeed as well as the situation in egypt really descends into a bit of a crisis president mahmoud morsi counseled his travel plans yesterday and met with his national defense council to discuss the deepening crisis across the country one of the upshot of this meeting was that they may consider an emergency status we don't know the details of what that would actually mean but of course here in egypt they lived under state of emergency for thirty years in a bar which led to protests being banned and censorship being legalized something people would really be very angry with and want to avoid to get to see if this situation continues on the streets of cairo and put saeed and we see further deaths and they may resort to emergency status but here we don't actually know what's going on quite yet of course a lot of i'm going towards the president this started just at the end of last year when he pushed through what was very seen as an unpopular constitution drafted by an islamist dominated constituent assembly people also say that he has not made any of the changes that were called for d

a few of our characters in it. it was taking place during mohamed mahmoud, a time there was extreme police brutality and attacks by the army. what happens during this time is padilla, who i think you had on the show before, and after, but comes from a family who has been fighting for political change and reform in the country for a long time, starts an organization or he gets cameras out to people. his wife, who is one of our teammates on shooting the film, films the drafting of a body across the square, which was sent up loaded and picked up by larger television stations. you could see the power of social media because people just came flooding down to the square. and that is what happened. people are using their cameras and that is bringing people down. >> one of the people who worked on the square is sanaa el seif, now 19 years old, "democracy now!" sharif abdel kouddous interviewed her in 2011 about a month after the revolution. she helped to publish a newspaper in defiance of laws requiring government permission when she was 17 years old, in the square. i bumped into her in sundance as part of your team and a

iran chooses a new president in june mahmoud ahmadinejad has served his maximum two terms and if there's a little clue as to who will replace him to tackle the almost inexhaustible tension with the west over tehran's nuclear program journalist afshin rattansi who's often shared his insights on iran with r t doesn't expect the new leader to bend to four and will. i think we people of iran elect see foreign policy things are going to be much the same people are already talking about the mayor of tehran at the moment i was in a job himself present in a job as the mayor of tehran for the new mayor of tehran ghalibaf and people are talking about him. perhaps winning in june because it's too early and is notoriously difficult to predict iranian elections as to whether they will be as hardline and again the tone in the terminology of western corporate media on this or bizarre and they just get islamic extremists in all sorts of different morning because the point is iran is that stay in terms of forging a very different type of developing nation and economy because it has all that oil and has a

president mahmoud c.-a issued the state of emergency yesterday in three cities and susan is the latest in the worst violence in the last three days he also employees a curfew between nine pm and six am to have already been calls for protests to break this curfew starting at eight pm tonight they say in defiance of the president's what this will mean on the ground is that likely to be several street battles between security forces and protesters as they remain on the streets also according to egyptian emergency law security forces are now able to wrest citizens and detain them probably thirty days without charges to likely to see a wave of arrests across these three cities as people of violent because and clashed with police but the violence continues here in the capital as well as security forces are firing tear gas and government protests as they have been all night quite dramatic scenes taken out of taking going to hold it down from cairo leaving many to question whether the president may actually resort

leadership the palestinians need in these are the steps that will work you were a former advisor to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas did you quit because you lost faith in the goetia asians absolutely absolutely it was a. i went through a very deep crisis of faith when i began to see that the only strategy that was being adopted was one of negotiations in the face of countless countless. announcements of settlement expansion in the face of israel's construction of the wall. and the only position that the palestinian authority continued to adopt was to go back to more and more negotiations without any visions without without any sort of idea of what would happen if those negotiations failed i couldn't be part of that process any longer what the terms for peace be different now than they were when you were negotiating back in two thousand two thousand and five no they're precisely the same and one of the problems that we faced during the negotiations was that israel was unwilling to recognize the pluck ability of international law meaning that all of the territory that it occupied in one nine hundred sixty seve

in a televised address, the palestinian president, mahmoud abbas, said palestinian unification was antant step on the way to ending israeli occupation. >> we should work together in unity. there is no better choice than unity to reach our national goals and achieve victory. >> hamas gave permission for the rally after the deadlock in peace talks between baasbbas' administration and israel narrowed the distance between factions. >> the holiday season may be over for many humans, but for some zoo animals, christmas began on friday. elephants in the berlin's zoo were served as mistry's for lunch -- elephants in berlin's zoo were served christmas trees for lunch. zookeepers say they relish the treat. that concludes our review of the week'

with israel despite the heavy cost fattah who's claiming victory after its president mahmoud abbas successfully upgrade a palestinian state has at the united nations as her mustn't fattah move closer together the irony is that they're getting help from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in his right wing policies and rhetoric are winning the palestinian support and sympathy on the international stage it was on that on yahoo's watching that as the recent united nations palestinian statehood bid demonstrated european unfailing support for israel has floundered it was also on it on yahoo's watch that u.s. is revelations reached their lowest ebb and now it's on his watch again that palestinian unity seems plausible. for her it's a long term interest of of for us i think it's a cooperate again because otherwise they're running the risk. that the west bank will be and probably part of the same political structure which de facto right now is the case leaders from both sides have a new day calls for reconsideration if you left with them you know you think that of course. between some of them for the catas

sites like this we live in a city correct as many americans. president mahmoud abbas has officially changed the name of the palestinian administration to the state of palestine the move follows a successful u.n. bid to raise the palestinian status to a nonmember observer state but despite this the nation is still a long way from unity as artie's paul asli reports thousands of families are torn apart by barriers put up by israel. this is the arrows crossing one of five land crossings between israel and gaza getting through here is tough you need the right permission and papers but this crossing does not just separate israel from gaza it also divides families who are trapped on either side of the border these are the tears of a boy who hasn't seen his father in three years mohammed al qaeda run left gaza in search of a bit of a life for his family but what he found on the other side of the border was loneliness and despair and what he left behind destress and fear is i miss my father a lot and i want to see him i'm afraid a lot my father must come back here we mus

other stories around chooses a new president in june mahmoud ahmadinejad served his maximum two terms and there's little clue as to who's going to replace him to tackle the almost inexorable tension with the west over iran's nuclear program just as should return as he was often shed is inside with the said he doesn't expect the new leader is going to bed for well i think whoever we people of iran elect policy foreign policy terms things are going to be much the same people are already talking about the mayor of tehran at the moment i was injured himself as normal in a job as the mayor of tehran the new mayor of tehran ghalibaf and people are talking about him. perhaps winning in june because it's too early in his new tour. as to whether they will be as hardline in again the terms in the terminology of western corporate media on this or a bizarre image of the islamic extremists in all sorts of different morning because the point is iran is there to stay in terms of forging a very different type of developing nation economy because it has all that oil and has all those resources and it'

hold to its position that there is no partner on the palestinian side that the leadership of mahmoud abbas is not a leadership which wants peace in the eyes of the israeli government and therefore the israeli government will attempt to keep the status quo in place which has been rather comfortable for israel we have had no real terrorism there's no uprising taking place in the palestinian territories the separation of the west bank and gaza has played into israel's interest and i think that the government of israel will seek to preserve the status quo for as long as possible the question is whether or not the international community will move beyond words in its isolation policies of israel if there will be economic sanctions or other political sanctions that we've yet to seen but i think that an increasingly hardline israeli government will push the international community toward more isolationist policies toward israel. well one of the most pressing and divisive issues is this election's been settlement's a theme that the writers campaigned on tirelessly indeed but what my own perspective to the

hold to its position that there is no partner on the palestinian side that the leadership of mahmoud abbas is not a leadership which wants peace in the eyes of the israeli government and therefore the israeli government will attempt to keep the status quo in place which has been rather comfortable for israel we have had no real terrorism there's no uprising taking place in the palestinian territories the separation of the west bank and gaza has played into israel's interest and i think that the government of israel will seek to preserve the status quo for as long as possible the question is how long is it possible for that to continue. i want to talk a little bit more about jewish helmets one of the parties that is being predicted to win relatively big during an election like you said it's still early but it's an ultra right pro settler party how large is the support for settlements among israelis in general. well this party is expected in the polls this morning to get about fifteen seats out of the hundred twenty so together with supporters from the likud we probably have twenty five percent of th

a lot of conversations since then. >> host: you write in your book, and you're quoting benod mahmoud, a columbia university class mate of the president: to be honest, he never had many black friends. in >> guest: beenu mahmood was one of a group of pakistani friends that obama had. he made friends with several pakistanis who came to occidental, and today shared with him sort of an internationalist perspective which he had because he'd live inside end please ya, and his mother was there, and he was neither black nor white in some sense, and he was searching for himself, and he was comfortable with these guys. and so when he got to new york, some of his pakistani friends had moved there, some of their friends were already there, beenu was already there, he was at columbia law school and very astute guy. and it's true, i mean, obama moved to new york ostensibly to be closer to harlem and to find his blackness, but it didn't happen there. and president obama when i interviewed him in the oval office acknowledged he made no lasting african-american friends during his four years in new york. but he was starting to make tha

mahmoud ahmadinejad is not allowed to stand for a third term. his lead to mass protests and a deadly crackdown. the economic crisis could be the driving force of change. he believed the promise of economic prosperity. that was in 2009. he never delivered. >> i don't earn enough to live. we had a better life for years ago. we see rents go up every year. the price of food rises but our income does not. even well off people are not happy and complain about the economy. >> high inflation means bread costs three times as much as it did. timesl is out to seven more expensive. international sanctions to curb nuclear ambitions have had an effect. the real blame lies elsewhere. >> we are a country with rich national resources. i do not think that is the main reason. it is because of the government's mismanagement. >> iran's president is limited to two terms. his use of force to silence opposition will be a factor in this election. leaders are under house arrest and recent changes to the electoral law give the supreme leader of more influence over who can

wishful thinking, american elites focused on former prime minister mousse a veef's campaign to unseat incumbent president mahmoud ahmadinejad in that year's iranian presidential election and on the green movement that emerged out of mousse a i have's campaign as the key to solving america's strategic problems in the middle east. american and other western elites widely anticipated a victory when in june 2009 ahmadinejad won, those same elites almost universeally condemned the outcome as a fraud. they did so even though every method logically-sound poll conducted in iran before or after the election including polls conducted by western polling groups -- 14 polls in all -- show that ahmadinejad's re-election with roughly two-thirds of the vote which is what the official results show that he got was eminently plausible, and americans embraced a narrative of election fraud even though neither mousevi or anyone else ever presented any evidence of how the election was stolen. this never-demonstrated but fervently-espoused narrative conditioned american western elites from -- [inaudible] of the green movement, widely p

a day men's 50+. >>> americans consider mahmoud ahmadinejad public enemy number one. in the interview, his answers were infuriating and fascinating. i asked him what he thinks of israel then i asked other world leaders what they think about him. >> looking live at new york, home of the united nations. world leaders from 193 countries are gathering for the annual meeting of the general assembly. president ahmadinejmahmoud ahma will address the meeting. you have been condemned for vociferously in america for a comment that you are said to have made that you want israel to be wiped off the map. wiped off the face of the earth. there have been many interpretations of what you said. you disputed the meaning that was then translate from the original farsi. let me give you the opportunity to say exactly what you did say and say exactly what you did mean. >> translator: we have been condemned in the united states for many things. for having deposed a dictator with a revolution. very having sought free elections. for not allowing our oil and national treasure to leave our coun

a veterans in twenty thirteen. and french quarter is waiting to hear evidence that might support claims that nicolas sarkozy accepted fifty million euros from mahmoud gadhafi to finance his presidential election campaign more than eight. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard bargain with the big picture. download the official application yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television well it just doesn't matter about what your mobile device is you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. this is the welcome back a french quarter is waiting to hear evidence that former president nicolas sarkozy received fifty million euros in campaign finance from the lately been need mama khadafi years before helping to topple him that occasions were made by lebanese born businessman while on trial in a separate money laundering case christophe head to toe french were clearly express that while the allegations are being tak

coverage, last year they plastered times square with missing posers, around the time mahmoud ahmadinejad was there for a meeting. he hinted that levlevinson may e been in iranian custody. >> i remember that last year american and intelligence groups had a meeting, but i have not followed up on it. i thought they had come to some type of agreement. >> the u.s. officials believe that he is held somewhere in south asia, but have not said where. christina levinson said she believes it is in south iran, i spoke to her. why do you choose to release these photos now. >> >> what i want people to know is there is still a hostage in iran, and that is my husband, bob levinson. >> you have no doubt he is held in iran? >> i do not. >> what makes you so sure? >> bob went to the island for a 24-hour visit, and he has not been seen since he left there. >> that is iranian territory. >> that is a month -- >> right. >> and less than a month after that, after he went missing on march 9th, there was an article in an iranian-sanctioned newspaper, "press tv," that said that bob was in custody and he would be released in a cou