bush decided to bomb sunni iraq not shia iran giving shia ahmadinejad a heck of a lot more influence in the middle east and taking out sunni saddam hussein iran's biggest enemy against whom they fought a multi year war that cost them both billions of dollars and killed over a million people so some people are saying that the ten million dollar gift to rove is payback from shia iran for all the great things rove and bush did for them against the sunni muslims in addition some people are saying that the ten million dollar donation to karl rove has some strings attached that if romney wins or the republicans take the senate then all those sanctions president obama put on shia iran would immediately be lifted and we might even go after another sunni run country that iran doesn't like just like bush took out sunni run a rack and flipped it over to shia rule and some people are saying that all the aggressive bomb iran talk coming from mitt romney is just a show and the behind closed doors mitt and mahmoud are best friends here we have ten or even twenty million dollars anonymously handed o

he wanted to reach out to ahmadinejad. i actually think the president has a pretty good record here that's one the american public at this point is pretty comfortable with. number one, he used covert action to try to boly up the nuclear program in essence. he organized international community to the extent that president bush could not on tougher and tougher sanctions some of which will take place in the next couple months. this has actually brought iran back to the negotiating table on this issue and i don't think the american public while it wants leaders to say military action is never off the table, i really don't think that americans are anxious or eager to get engaged in the third land war in the middle east in this decade. ironically, i think republicans thought they would be able to use iran to fit their paradigm, i think it fits the obama paradigm pretty well. we're asserting leadership. we're working in conjunction with our partners. we're keeping the idea of force on the table. we're using diplomacy. we're using

how can that be, ambassador, when mahmoud ahmadinejad -- i see you laughing -- mahmoud ahmadinejad ising that the nation should stop the syrian crack down, because, they are protecting the, quote, occupying regime. meaning, israel. explain. please. >> here's how i'd involve iran in the syrian matter. i would favor regime change in tehran, as the most effective way to facilitate regime change in syria. it is just ludicrous to think that you can bring people together with completely opposing interests, and get them to agree on something that only one side agrees on, it is not going to happen and, as i say, this continuation of the negotiations allows western decisionmakers to avoid very hard choices. i think if anything, the continued progress of the annan mission will simply make matters worse inside syria, raising the risks of more civilian casualties. nothing is going to change here until we detach russia, china and iran from support for assad through one mechanism or another. >> eric: with all of the experience being the secretary-general, years at the united nations, do you think h

they are vulnerable to advertisers advertising where they're starting to sleuth active applied to ahmadinejad if he is funding romney as you said i want to see. that would have would apply directly to him but let's remember the reason we passed our very first the lobbying and campaign disclosure law in america for an agent registration act was because of foreign influence that has happened in american history is an important issue but that's not what the support is just one of the last twenty seconds just a real quick one though reset the ends of this two billion dollars that you identified brian are going to be the corporate media mostly television could that be why this conversation that we're having right now is not happening on american television why do you fill a twenty four hour news cycle if you don't have commercials to show and analyze is the only argument in favor of shutting down these is that i think we're all already getting sick and tired of seeing among t.v.'s ok thanks so much for being with us tonight great to have you with with us over the next several months stories of the

palestinian authority and ahmadinejad don't. if you are a liberal, this split should make you question which side you should be on. when someone like lek endorses you for president that's like jeff gordon saying you are a great driver or eric bolling complimenting your tan. like dana perino calling you perky. if the eastern european father of free market believes in mitt that is big. you have to wonder which world leader will endorse obama now. oh, yeah, the p pico pineapple, hugo chavez. he thinks obama is a good guy. maybe he could speak at the convention. bob -- >> dana: can i interrupt? are you on a first bas name bass with world leaders and not nascar drivers? what is the problem. >> greg: i can't pronounce his last name. it's walesnka and it could be rulalenska. i don't know how to say his name. they use a letter not in our alphabet. >> bob: have you ever been to polish neighborhood in america? same problem. >> greg: is it? haven't been in polish neighborhood. but i love sausage. some say i love it too much. cokie roberts

obama is a week, he is not willing to use force, he is willing to reach out to ahmadinejad. the president has a pretty good record here. it is one that the american public is pretty comfortable with. he has used covert action to try to box up the nuclear program would cyber warfare. he has organized international community's to the extent that president bush could not. tougher and tougher sanctions come up some of which will take place in the next couple of months. this has brought iran back to the negotiating table on this issue. i do not think the american public are eager to get engaged in a third war in the middle east in this decade. ironically, where republicans thought they would be able to use iran to fit their paradigm, i think it fits the obama paradigm pretty well. returning leadership, working in conjunction with our partners, keeping the idea of force on the table, but using diplomacy, using diplomatic sanctions to try to achieve our objectives. i think it is beginning to show roots in iran. the public is going to support that approach. that leaves us with the t

palestinian authority and ahmadinejad don't.are a liberal, this split should make you question which side you should be on. when someone like lek endorses you for president that's like jeff gordon saying you are a great driver or eric bolling complimenting your tan. like dana perino calling you perky. if the eastern european father of free market believes in mitt that is big. you have to wonder which world leader will endorse obama now. oh, yeah, the p pico pineapple, hugo chavez. he thinks obama is a good guy. maybe he could speak at the convention. bob -- >> dana: can i interrupt? are you on a first bas name bass with world leaders and not nascar drivers?

and i'm really glad today that we're not talking about an arms race between iran's mahmoud ahmadinejad for a nuclear weapon and saddam hussein's iraq for a nuclear weapon. >> bill: but the blood and treasure we expended a trillion dollars and all the people that were killed and maimed over there, it seems to me that t wasn't worth it in the sense that our military performed heroically but right now iraq could dissend into chaos easily. >> saddam hussein in the middle of the middle east was a security threat. we have been to war against him a couple times. still shooting at our aircraft every day as a result of that. >> bill: could have handled him differently though. >> we tried to strang gill him. he was breaking out of those constraints. we tried to strangle him. he tried to assassinate. george h.w. bush. he continued to threaten kuwait. yes i wish we had been right or the intelligence agencies had been right about the state of the weapons program. the middle east without saddam hussein and a chance at a more democratic much better place. >> what are you going to say not moms and dad

in april mahmoud ahmadinejad made a visit to the state claimed by both iran and the emirates. that behavior is concernable for the uae. >> translator: we are building the infrastructure so we can continue exporting crude oil which japan and other countries need. >> reporter: while the situation along the gulf is uncertain, they're doing all they can to maintain stable supplies. nhk world. >>> prime minister demetri medvedev says russians won't give in in a territorial dispute with japan. he made the comment over one of the islands claimed also by japan. medvedev made his second visit in two years. >> translator: russia will not concede one inch of the small lands. even a small concession could lead to the division of a nation. >> russian foreign minister says he'll hold talks with his counterpart in the near future. officials with the japanese foreign ministry complained about the visit. they told afanisev they are part of japanese territory. and they said the trip was unacceptable. >> translator: the latest visit runs counter to japan's stance on the issue. it also spoils eff

president ahmadinejad has assured the foreign minister of syria that iran will stand by syria. the americans, iran's strategic adversaries, but believe the aleppo -- >> as they continue this kind of tragic attack on their own people in aleppo, i think it will ultimately be a nail in assad's coffin. he is just assuring that the assad regime will come to an end. >> neither regime has to win back aleppo if it has to survive. if it loses, the rebels will control the north and damascus will surely be next. >> this is "bbc world news." still ahead -- pakistan's big hopes for a medal at the olympics. can the hockey team recover from a period of turmoil? more from our series looking back at past olympics when the games came to melvyn. the australian was tipped for glory. she has been described as one of australia's greatest champions and also one of the most unlucky. >> people say it must have been wonderful. it was a bittersweet occasion for me. i had a reputation of being quite a slow starter. this time, it didn't click. when i got to about the 50 meter mark -- yeah, i thought -- i w

summit of the past year has been attended by mahmoud ahmadinejad who is an odds with the us which is up at the i'm not going to ask you if this was a deliberate demonstration off some anti western movement although it clearly have to place but i'm sure you will definitely denied it but. i will tell you the truth or at least the way i see it because in the first time mr i've been injured it is your meeting iran has been an observer with the organization for a long time for this reason. the second part in the summit in beijing or to me if it would still. break send asio and what distinguishes these two organizations is that the u.s. . there's not a member while russia and china are with well the u.s. just can't be everywhere russia is also missing in some organizations where the us is a member. but . only in the. us. when i was talking about russia's in china stand on international issues i deliberately used words like similar orienting in this case i would see where in tune with each other there is no disagreement with regard to the logic of the future su enlargement. there are certai

where financial interests write legislation to govern this country and all this talk of fearing ahmadinejad out of every closet or coming up from underneath everybody's bed is nothing more than a fear tactic so we can enrich a very few people on this planet. you're watching live from moscow and still ahead the white house quiet south of the pressure on iran with a fresh round of sanctions and these top military presence we hear the fears that washington is provoking a full scale conflict plus. john again he would never get elected. today with his lifestyle but womanizing in almost yeah absolutely i'm still in that a good thing that politicians go there or is it better we just don't know it's very don't know so political mudslinging the name of the game or slimy is trying to gerry adams actual time they were residents trying to house. the deep public anger in spain over cuts and shows no sign of abating with further clashes in the capital and riot police try to keep the pundits of people incensed by yet no belt tightening approved by the government on friday the wage cuts and tax hikes are i

where financial interests write legislation that govern this country and all this talk of fearing ahmadinejad out of every closet or coming up from underneath everybody's bed is nothing more than a fear tactic so we can enrich a very few people on this planet well the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has arrived in egypt for her very first talks with the country's newly elected islamised president mohamed morsi now she says that she is there to push for a completion of post revolution change in the country and for economic restoration the middle east expert and independent journalist larry everest says that this illustrates america's eagerness to retain influence in that country. hillary clinton is claims she's there to help the egyptian people themselves determine their future but that's not what's going on line hillary clinton and the rest of the u.s. establishment are working out a very fraught situation to make sure the military the military with which they have deep and long standing ties remains the dominant force in the egyptian state as it remains today and that the egyptian st

financial interests write legislation that govern this country and that all this talk of fearing ahmadinejad out of every closet or coming up from underneath everybody's bed is nothing more than a fear tactic so we can enrich a very few people on this planet but don't forget you can get more on the stories that we're covering here on our air as well as on our web site r t v dot com. you can check out this footage of heavy rains and flooding in japan where almost half a million people may have to leave their homes plus extreme measures extreme measures for the olympics and london as the royal air force as a given permission to shoot down passenger jets in the security crisis. resistance is not a politics but a culture. this couldn't stand. on its own. cultures of resistance. little. worried more about what's to feed but where will the food come from can science provide the answers if you drill under the microscope. we've got the future covered. well welcome back let's take a look at some of the other stories currently making headlines around the world. at least twenty three people were killed

twelve election so now we might all have to wait until twenty fourteen to see how much money mahmoud ahmadinejad threw into helping mitt romney this year. just. that's the good the bad of the very very musa lajon asli ugly the good wife the cork ireland city council last night the cork city council became the first local authority in ireland to officially support marriage equality the council unanimously passed a motion supported michael nugent a member of ireland's sinn fein party and a council member said that marriage equality is an essential part of it equality agenda elso said quote the struggle is ongoing for recognition and equality in society i hope that this is a step in that struggle and similar emotion was passed across the border in belfast northern ireland last week as well government officials across the pond are accepting marriage equality it's about time those in washington and across america did the same thing the bath matt drudge the founder of the infamous conservative news site the drudge report is no stranger to promoting far right conspiracy theories but now he's thrown his

financial interests write legislation that govern this country and that all this talk of fearing ahmadinejad out of every closet or coming up from underneath everybody's bed is nothing more than a fear tactic so we can enrich a very few people on this planet. so as always you can get more details on the stories we've covered by going to our web site r t dot com but a lot more over there for you to check out including this flood of heavy rains and flooding in japan in that country almost half a million people may have to leave their homes. extreme measures for the olympics in london as a royal air force is given permission to shoot down passenger jets in a security crisis. wealthy british style is not. the time to. go. to. market why not. gamble why not what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. welcome back well let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world right now at least twenty three people have been killed after a suicide bomber attacked

where financial interests write legislation to govern this country and all this talk of fearing ahmadinejad out of every closet or coming up from underneath everybody's bed is nothing more than a fear tactic so we can enrich a very few people on this planet. live from moscow still ahead be you ask cranks up the pressure on iran with the trial of sanctions and top military presence here the fear is that washington has been working a full scale conflict plus. kind of kerry would have never got elected. today would his lifestyle a womanising enormous yes absolutely absolutely is that a good thing that politicians go there or is it better we just don't know it's very don't know. political mudslinging been name of the game or a slimy strategy at election time they rest and find out later. the public anger in spain over cuts and debts shows no sign of abating with father clashes in the capital riot police try to keep them out of hundreds of people incensed by yet more belt tightening approved by the government on friday the wage cuts and tax hikes are in exchange for eurozone bailout to save the

where financial interests write legislation to govern this country and all this talk of fearing ahmadinejad out of every closet or coming up from underneath everybody's bed is nothing more than a fear tactic so we can enrich a very few people on this planet. more still wind up for you in the program including spain police are in no mood for protests thousands are left bloody and handcuffed after clashes in madrid that's right officers knocked out of demonstrators furious over the latest austerity cuts also. ideas. to get power was made to the police. yet when power is on the table anything goes right. are brought obama and mitt romney ready for anything to get power the president gets new yorkers opinions about whether to go months. washington's up the ante in its standoff with iran declaring more sanctions against the islamic state over its disputed nuclear intentions these latest measures target companies and banks accused of helping tehran bypass the e.u. and us oil embargo they come after washington announced more military deployments to iran with four aircraft carrier headed to the per

financial interests write legislation that govern this country and that all this talk of fearing ahmadinejad out of every closet or coming up from underneath everybody's bed is nothing more than a fear tactic so we can enrich a very few people on this planet when new protests on the streets of spain over a slew of. new budget cuts intended to reduce the country's national deficit by about sixty billion euros now that's led to a fresh eruption of public anger and protests all across the country rallies during the week quickly turned violent however when police charged and beat demonstrators were also firing rubber bullets more than seventy people were injured in those clashes yesterday cuts driving the trouble include tax hikes as well as the promise of painful pension changes but the protesters say they are the ones being forced to pay for the mistakes of politicians and bankers the measures were demanded by spain's e.u. creditors who have pledged madrid a vital bailed out bailout for crippled spanish banks now according to the leader of the founder of the lira dot com crisis planning organi

we have heard mahmoud abbas will be traveling or has been invited to visit iran by mahmoud ahmadinejad. i don't know why since they have been supporting hamas the rival factions. why would the president go knowing that it would infuriate the israelis the united states and many of the people in the west who wants to sepae -- palestine succeed. >> i don't think -- i think it really is a nonissue. i think israel is trying. they are trying hard to draw u.s. into a confrontation with iran. they are creating a monster is something that cuz not bowed well for everybody not the region or the u.s. and not national security for anybody. it is quite separate. we are trying hard to repair our system as an active democracy. we don't want to be seen as part of any kind of political situation in the region i. saying it is a nonissue if he has been invited does not mean he is going to go. there is no underlying meaning taking place. >> if you would stand by coming up we go back to the berth place of jesus and speak there in bette ham with palestinian prime minister. >> late afternoon gun fire erupted.

that ahmadinejad and khomeini have to deal with. they're in a difficult place.t is in a difficult place. nobody's in a good place on this one. >> eliot: that poll along with the article in "the new york times" suggests there's some greater fragility of what's going on in iran. we think of it as monolithic, one mindset, it is not. and yet there's no question what's going on internationally with the threats to close the gulf, close the shipping lanes they're launching the missiles, we're beefing up our military presence in that region. it is an accretion of factors you worry the spark will generate some sort of explosion. >> it is worth bearing in mind, iran is dangerous but not as dangerous as it says it is. iranian generals say we'll wipe out israel and destroy american bases in the region. they would like to do that. they can't. they say they would like to build a nuclear sub. they say they'll build 20 nuclear power plants. they can't. so the fact that they want to do that makes them a dangerous country and they have to be dealt with. their capacity to do harm

and credit suisse isn't isn't the possibility that mahmoud ahmadinejad or or somebody else you know saudi princes i mean saudi princes are big have been historically big funders of and they were you know one of them in particular was a big donor to george w. bush isn't there a problem with money corrupting our politics particularly international money well first of all you say that is if their laws have been changed and it's ok for terrorists or other kinds of illegals to participate in our legal system and our political says what it is that's not true but that those restrictions have been lifted they still exist the only question you're raising is what further steps ought to be made to make sure that what we say is the law is actually happening but there's no as i just want to know and as. giving the money to karl rove cajuns it's a legal it's perfectly legal that's why if it's a five a one c. for the he is one of them and i think made it terrorist list and he's not allow tell him him explicitly well you know it is so so let's say that somebody was on the terrorist list on or the broader

mahmoud ahmadinejad went on state television and called the sanctions political warfare.there to discourage warfare and nuclear weapons. >>> and there was quite a scare last night. the jet just started to take off when the pilot suddenly slammed on the breaks which shook up the passengers. -- shook up the passengers. they are still not clear what caused the problem. they were put on a backup plane which landed on fso hours later. if you are just joining us, big problem on 880. >>> and on hegenberger, we have some good news for you, traffic seems to be unwinding southbound 880 as you drive to the coliseum, since this is not search heavy, we are getting a lot of relief and it is still slow, more your way if we go another 10 or 15 minutes, you should be in pretty good shape. there was a crash blocking the two left lanes and it's congested -- congested but we are getting better. nothing major getting into the city. we are also washing 280 and 880 going to highway 17. >>> two hours ago it was hardly any fog at all and there is a lost low clouds, many are beginning to move in a

mahmoud ahmadinejad went on television and called sanctions political warfare. effort to discourage them from nuclear weapons and they say the program is for peaceful purposes only. >>> mitt romney wraps up his overseas trip in poland. this is mitt romney laying a wreathe at the tomb of the unknown in warsaw. he spoke at the university of warsaw and congratulated poland on its economic success and managed to work in his own economy success as well. >> they are describing how this nation empowered the individual lifted the heftsly hand of -- heavy hand of government... in israel he offended palestinians saying israel's culture allows it to be more economically beneficial than palestinians. >>> and set of trisays there is strong evidence to suggest president barack obama is the 11th grandson of a man who lived in the 1600s. that link is not through the president's father but through his white mother. >>> and the power outages are happening right now in india. more than 600 people are now in the dark. that is about half of india's population. it was caused by the g

it radical fundamentalist dictators like ahmadinejad, putin or chavez? or terrorism?, america is despiseed for who we are and what we represent. so many hate-filled groups, or should we worry about militaristic threat about government like korea or china? eric allen bell is filmmaker filming mosque in tennessee, he saw something that changed him from hollywood liberal to a very concerned american conservative. >> this is a radical savage religion. the people aren't all radical, thank god, but the religion is the most deadly idea idea in the history of the world. we immediate to make sure we keep a close eye on it in this country. >> eric: what do you think? what is america's biggest threat? >> greg: that hair! go ahead. >> kimberly: not mine. >> greg: his. >> kimberly: thank you. just reading in that introof what you wrote all of those things are considerable, credible threat to the united states. the concerns over the domestic policy and concerns at home we have turned away from what is going on. we lost ground to radical islam. there have been successes along the wa

if you're in iran, ahmadinejad would argue -- i heard him say this.her countries are allowed to have nuclear weapons, why can't i? >> first of all, israel doesn't have a border with iran and they are very far away. and i don't think it's israel has ever threatened iran. iran has been threatening israel, as far as pakistan is concerned. if you see the indian forces, 50% of their army, navy, air force is totally matched on pakistan border. so it's a very, very different situation and environment. we certainly have a threat. we fought two wars. half of our wing in the pakisn back bangladesh because of indian bee lij rents there. >> what do you think about assad in syria? >> i think assad himself ought to realize that this kind of killing of so many civilians and people dying, his own countrymen dying, what is the point in staying? why perpetuate one's self? >> given that he clearly has no intention of leaving, if anything he's escalating the killing. what should be done? lots of people are talking about how awful this is, but people are being reminded. t