start off with some news that cnn has, which is state-run tv and iran says no more crude oil to france or britainte that for me. >> well, first of all, candy, i wouldn't take that announcement to the bank that that's going to be a fact. there's an awful lot of compete statements made by the iranian government. >> pressure from the sanctions? is that the pressure that is on them? world pressure? >> certainly there is isolation that they are feeling and it's beginning to bite. they have to look down the road and see that it's going to get tighter, not looser. >> so does this cutting off the oil threat or just wild statement fall along the same lines as the pictures that we saw this week of ahmadinejad showing us? is this a propaganda war? >> this is not a propaganda war but want to appear to be stronger than they are. it's very difficult to estimate what is going through their minds because they have a lot of controversy in their own society at this point. >> but do we ignore them at our own risk? it just seems to me that the chatter has gotten so loud. we hear there's a column that leon panetta so

and they have said to me look we don't say that france in its title doesn't say the christian state or france or the christian state of britain or the catholic state of germany and so forth and i've said to them that why do you say the islamic republic of iran if you raise the word islamic we will raise the word jewish and they say no that's different why is it different this is the kind of. discussion we have had to put it that way sometimes very very. heated discussion in your opinion would it be good or bad for israel if assad's regime force. let me first say that israel has no way of influencing the results of present. events in syria i believe that assad is going to fall and i think that ultimately will fall in a way which will cause a lot of bloodshed and i think that this bloodshed will have enormous effects on the history of syria and maybe of neighboring countries as well hamas is very likely to have a duty to soon how will this play into israeli palestinian reconciliation efforts if at all personally i'm not sure how most will have a new leader. secondly i don't think the national has been the most extreme of the le

this morning, iran's oil ministry announced it would no longer sell crude to france or great britain. officials in tehran have threatened to cut off any nations supporting sanctions against its nuclear program. uncertainty over iran along with the european debt crisis are among the reasons behind rising oil prices. americans now pay an average of $3.53 for a gallon of gasoline. that's up 25 cents since the start of the year. whitney houston will be buried in new jersey today in a grave next to her father's. the three-hour memorial presided over by singer deonwarwick yesterday, the super star was remembered by the world famous and personal friends alike. houston's ex-husband bobby brown walked out of the service. he blamed problems with seating and said he chose to leave rather than cause a scene. correspondent our correspondent has more on houston's funeral ahead on sunday morning. this morning at the vatican, the catholic church's newest cardinals gathered for a mass in their honor. two americans were among the 22 churchmen elevated by pope benedict yesterday. timothy dole and and ba

despite a surge in prices analysts say you want a decision is more of a symbolic act neither britain or france relies on iranian oil while to iran is dependent on revenues from selling crude to the block. meanwhile iran is turning to water as it offers gold and oil in return for food economic sanctions by the united states and europe make a difficult for iran to pay for imports in euro's of dollars iranian traders are in talks with russia over using a rubles to pay for grain over the past two weeks or on bought more than one million tons of grain from russia a significant increase from last year. by celtic look at the markets currencies first the euro is seeing some gains against the dollar however it's lower to the rubles whereby strong crude the dollar's also losing against the russian courtesy and now on to equities europe is pretty upbeat at the second hour of trade london's first c.n. germany's doubts are gaining around half a percent each. and here in russia the markets are trading in the one o'clock hour of the r.t.s. is up more than one percent of my sex is gaining three quarters of pe

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cutoff of fuel supplies to british and french companies which isn't in itself going to affect britain and france or even iran. the other development is iran has suggested it will expand its uranium enrichment activities as one of its nuclear firlts. in itself doesn't add up to much. clearly what the iranians are saying they're prepared to go forward despite concerns in the west that it may have a military dimension, which they deny, and despite the tight sanctions against its people. >> seems to be leading us to -- we're already in a state of economic war, but shooting war potentially as well, at least if the diplomatic rhetoric is to be believed. >> it's certainly a concern, charles. that's what's the conversation is anti, particularly in israel, should they transcribing against the nuclear facilities or not. what we're also seeing is these international sanctions are an attempt by the international community, led the united states and others, to persuade israel it doesn't need to attack iran's nuclear facilities. that's the hope amongst a lot of people monitoring the situation. the other situatio

is what we heard assad must go because when you say when the united states says when britain says when france says or somebody has to go they have to go don't they internationalizing it bringing in the al qaeda element. helps make that happen. well yes of course i think that's true and i think we saw with what we saw with the un security council china and russia vetoed the resolution and now it seems like it's going to go to the general assembly again it seems like they're going to try to have combinations of assad's britain and france are talking about working together to find ways of helping the free syrian army they're just trying to boycott the process because it didn't work for them it's the same that you see of a lot of kind of global elites where when they don't get their own way they just try and find alternative ways to meddle this thing happening for quite a long time in syria remember the arab league which is not hardly made up of great democratic countries themselves and we have bahrain which at the moment is cracking down on the hospitals for protests the range of protesters is just comp

iran is holding or oil sales to britain and france in response to european union sanctions the e.u. agreed a ban on a rainy and cruel imports from july to pressure to iran to stop enriching uranium but historian webster tarpley says iran is sending a message that it won't be pushed around. economic sanctions are a game that two can play and turnabout is fair play in international affairs the european commission and the relevant powers have been making a big noise over the past couple of weeks about how they are going to embargo and boycott all iranian oil starting on july first well it's pretty obvious the iranians decided not to wait around until july first they decided to to impose their own embargo boycott on the offending powers and they're starting with the the two biggest imperialist bullies on the schoolyard the british and the french who are now so weak that they can only act together they are a kind of imperialist bicycle built for two they haven't had time to carefully arrange the fallback options in the alternative sources of oil so this is a little bit of a surprise to t

japan might threaten china or indochina or korea, but that's much less important than france and britain and places like that. so it was also thought hitler was more ruthless and more powerful. so always the united states was focused on the war in europe and increasingly as 1941 wears on, the first year of roosevelt's third term, united states becomes somewhat involved in the war, at least in the atlantic, trying to protect shipping going to britain. was pretty much uninvolved in events in the far east, except it did something important with respect to japan. what was that? it antagonized the japanese a lot. >> the oil embargo. >> the oil embargo, exactly. embargoes oil and scrap metal and other materials that the japanese thought were essential. i'm obviously not going to get to pearl harbor now. i'm going to conclude. next time we'll finish world war ii. and we'll sum up what that meant for america, the presidency and the world. i'll just conclude by saying that for many commentators, the war came to america through the back door of the attack on pearl harbor, which began a never-endin

there were reviews or at least interactions with technical experts in britain, france, and other countries in the nato alliance and other allies. these concepts and plans were briefed to the most senior russians who had many technical experts present. so the notion that the -- that the ballistic missile defense review report was completely unrelated to any technical input is factually not correct. >> no, you didn't address that question. the fact that you're appealing to different organizations playing a role, i've been in the pentagon, i've watched these charades put on. you go and you talk to a bunch of different people. you select what you want to say and you say it. now, if you have some facts -- are you willing to say, for example, that the current missile defense system is defending the united states right now? do you believe that? >> that is a different point. >> no, no. you can't get into it. talk about appeal to -- >> i'm responding to a couple of the points you made. if you would like to respond to that, you're welcome to. >> respond to the factual points made. >> i'm responding

or some world using before you know this hour the leaders of britain and france plan to discuss an increase in practical help for syrian rebels which could involve giving the military advice david cameron nicolas sarkozy will hold a summit in paris to talk about what more can be done to aid the free syrian army and also sign a major deal which would see the two nations work closely with civil nuclear technology. gunmen from the radical islamists who. are in prison freeing a hundred nineteen inmates one guard was killed in the ensuing gun fight.

or foreign interference in sit in affairs. iran says it has stopped oil exports to france and britain the country's oil ministry says it will sellits crude to new customers this comes as pressure and sanctions are being piled on iran over its nuclear program iran also looks set to expand its controversial nuclear program reports suggest new centrifuges are going to be installed at the underground and richmond facility near the city you can also domestically made nuclear fuel rods were loaded into the research reactor at the same time the islamic republic is accused of being behind bomb attacks on israel israeli diplomats in india georgia and thailand denies involvement the israeli pm however has called around the greatest export of terrorism attack iran insists its nuclear work is peaceful and says israel is waging a psychological war that some fear is paving the way for military action. i think what they're really trying to do is trying to up the ante to the americans will do something they aren't capable of taking out around nuclear program they don't have the means to do it best it could mean more as a hit and run and run att

or suspected nuclear sites. there are reportedly plans for new talks between iran and the u.s., britain, france, germany, russia,. but israel has also not ruled out a preemptive strike on iran's nuclear facilities. to talk more about that, i am joined in the studio by a member of the german institute for international and security affairs, the swt. thank you for talking with us. why did iran agree in the first place to meet with these inspectors that it was not willing to meet demands? >> i do believe that iran wants to show its principal willingness to call -- to cooperate with the international committee and international organizations. it wants to show that it is not completely and entirely isolated. it wants to show that it is cooperating with the iaea in the framework for the safeguard agreements it has signed with the iaea. not less, but also not more. it is not obliged to give access to the military site that the iaea wants to visit. >> what happens next? what can the international community do? >> i believe the sanctions that have been adopted by the european union and other western countries go into for

or some other world news in brief for you now this hour the leaders of britain and france plan to discuss an increase of practical help for syrian rebels which could involve military advice david cameron and they will hold a summit in paris to talk about what more can be done to aid the free syrian army also signed a major deal which would see.

or more. prices spiked after iran stopped exporting oil to france and britain in reaction to sanctions from the u.s. and the european union. economists worry soaring gas prices will cut into household budgets and could slow the economic recovery. >>> on wall street the dow rose 46 points and the nasdaq climbed 23. gap continues to struggle. the retailer is reporting a 40% drop in profits because of higher costs and heavy discounting during the holidays. >>> and nba break-out star jeremy lin has filed to trademark the term linsanity. coined to describe his meteoric rise to basketball stardom. the trademark would give the knicks' point guard exclusive rights to put linsanity on a variety of products including clothing, mugs, even action figures. and basketball legend michael jordan is suing a chinese sportswear company. he's accusing the company of using his chinese name and jersey number without his permission. >>> and pepsi is hoping to win back customers. some calorie conscious drinkers don't like the taste of diet soda so they are rolling out pepsi next. a mid calorie drink that's half the ca

be cleared on monday but the range of a leg or a population is still at the forefront of greek society. and it has stopped exporting oil to france and britain all made growing pressure and sanctions over iran's nuclear program but the country's oil ministry says it will still sell its crude to new customers. first some insight into what may be behind the pressure heaped on iran we spoke to brian becker a member of the answer anti-war coalition that interview is up next. thank you for joining us on r.t. thank you but does the united states want from tightening the sanctions i mean there is even beyond tightening the sanctions now indeed it is the united states government has created an artificial crisis that's first and foremost it's a manufactured crisis iran is complying with the i.a.e.a. iran does not have a nuclear weapon iran is not threaten its neighbors iran has not started a war with any of its neighbors israel on the other hand has hundreds of nuclear weapons and unlike iran refuses to sign a nuclear nonproliferation treaty does not allow. inspectors into its country so there's not really a nuclear menace or a nuclear danger from ir

france and italy. portugal and switzerland are small countries. when you went over, did you see a decrease in drug use? increase or decrease? >> a decrease. first of all, yes, portugal is a smaller country than britain. if you break britain up into smaller units and tackle it in a city by city, there is no reason why you shouldn't get the same results as in portugal. what portugal was ten years ago they had a massive drug problem. heroin was rampant and they decided to move drugs from the department of -- from the home office to the health department. and they said to the health department, you are now in charge. nobody will be sent to prison in portugal. not one person has been sent to prison for taking drugs in the last ten years in prison. and they then -- you know, have taken heroin. they set up places where people can get clean needles throughout portugal. they have helped people who have heroin problems get off heroin. the amount of people taking heroin has dropped by 50%. >> federal counselor, you're a politician. the message that goes out if you decriminalize, even to a country like switzerland is pretty stark. doesn't it send the wrong message to the country if you decriminalize it says you

or click today. >>> iran says it is cutting off oil sales to britain and france.t have any problem disposing of the excess oil. the eu has approved a ban of crude from iran. oil provides half of iran's revenue. more than a third go to china and india. >>> pope benedict xvi celebrated mass with cardinals. the 22 new princes of the church as they are known to catholics will be eligible to vote for a new pope when benedict dies. >>> i'm don lemon at the cnn head quarters in atlanta. we are going to leave you tonight with a look back at some of saturday's most poignant moments from the memorial services for whitney houston. ♪ she was found in newark ♪ she was heaven sent. >> we are here to mourn our loss but to celebrate her life, one of our angels, whitney houston. ♪ a long time coming but a change had to come ♪ >> what i know about her is that she loved the lord. if that was a grace that carried her all the way through it was the same grace that carried her home. ♪ but i know she wasn't afraid to die ♪ >> so say whatever you want, god was for her and she is resting