that is separate from a brain, not to break up with iran but to change iran. a number of other groups, the arabs, the kurds are really having an active full scale insurgency going on. we don't hear too much about in the press. we don't hear too much about from an unofficial but we insurgencies were iranian soldiers when they go into the populated areas, are seriously under threat. i welcome and thank you for being one of the only members of congress and u.s. officials that is trying to integrate iran and south caucasus policy. again within a think about it even of the national security council, we have the caucasus together covered with the balkans. two regions are completely different. the dynamics are completely different because the dominant power in the balkans. where in the south caucasus where the region that with huge influx with turkey, russia, all competing. this region is vitally important for the outcomes of russia, iran, iran and turkey. so thank you for calling attention to these two policies. as part of that integration i think u.s.-iran policy c

i really believe neither israel use existing threat for iran or iran existential threat to israel we had just global disease or summit conference here and i told the conference that even today israel is the are always using the wrong issue justifying the nuclear bomb saying iran is existential threat for israel but the fact is israel is that israel produced nuclear bomb before islamic revolution where the shah of iran was that a lot of is rape. israeli nuclear bomb has nothing to do with iraq because it was massed produced before of evolution now they are using islamic revolution in order to justify which i would not why this argument iran has really been stigmatized in the public domain for the past few years what can their own do to persuade the west that it's not building a nuclear weapon i believe. iran has been ready for cooperation with the i.a.e.a. to remove the ambiguity. during all time you'll remember in two thousand and three to talk to two thousand and five we implemented additional protocol we implemented a subsidy arrangement called three point one we have been suspende

and they seek to demin eyes iran. let me give you an example if a child refuses to be parents may tell their child that a monster will come and eat them but they say this just to intimidate the child in reality there is no monster western countries and especially the united states seek to demo nizer in order to intimidate other countries and make them by their weapons this is merely propaganda. scourge of the skies it's a backward case. comes under attack everybody understands that iran will years all means available to protect itself against aggression so if there is a military conflict. can the iranian nuclear program be adjusted to be used for military purposes. when there was a conflict between iran and saddam hussein many countries supported in intelligence services and many countries supported him and of course international media all worked for saddam. certain arab nations in our region made unlimited financial resources available to saddam hussein and he also received military hardware from the us and other co

iran. i would just read very briefly from the report that the u.p. report filed for the u.n.gen assembly when it was highlight, quote, pattern of systemic violations of human rights. iran has refused access to the united nations for several years, and the ug general assembly submitted a report in which he said he was, quote, deeply troubled by increased numbers of executions. a pew addition, arbitrary arrests and detention, unfair trials, torture, and ill treatment, and crackdown on human rights activityist, lawyers, journalist, and opposition activists, and to draw an example from the week's news theres actually what i gas what qualifies in iran for a slight bit of goodness. a well-known human rights lawyer ended her 49-day hunger strike on december 4th. her name is nasarn, and she has in prison since 2010, and the regime imposed a travel ban on her husband and her daughter so she was on a hunger strike for 49 days, and has actually stopped the hunger strike amid word the regime is going t

monitors in iran for several years and while the international observers are known to have accused iran of not letting them see everything they want while the iran has been saying that it can't satisfy all their demands who's right it depends iran is a member of safeguard. they are asking iran to implement additional protocol implementing additional protocol is not mandated for the nations for the cultures today seventy countries they do not implemented the protocol therefore this would be a guess shows a good read from iran to implement additional protocol but i. is even requiring requesting iran to give back to the i is beyond additional protocol no mation in this war has given access to the i.a.e.a. beyond that the shop i believe iran is ready if they recognize the rights of iran for the richmond like any other member. of n.p.t. and if they are prepared all to make clear to lift the sanctions to start lifting the sanctions gradually at the end the state to lift all sanctions if the west and the five plus one are ready and these two issue i believe iran will show good will to accept a

and its partners assurance that iran is not moving towards a nuclear weapon and gives iran it's in title meant to domestic enrichment but wasn't this sort of the process before and. and why isn't this something that can be working this is something to be working if we're actually if we're actually having these negotiations and i think there's a lack of clarity about what is our end goal can we arrive at a point where inspections are robust enough that we can be assured that there isn't a problem here we can actually put this issue to rest certainly lots to consider and some interesting new developments here policy director for the national iranian american council thanks so much as well new york city has always been chock full of things to stimulate your senses from the crowds of people the sounds of st performances the smells and of course the various signs posted all around the city when new york artist has just been arrested for a series of posters he designed and then posted posters they look like this and are critical of police surveillance the artist now identified as it's not a te

kind of drago between iran. you. want black. south and this life which is the. blast that killed one serious husband was seduced shown that the clock in the living room stopped at the time of his death both the west and iran are equally failing to move forward iran has long insisted on its right to develop a peaceful nuclear program but suspicion in the west has led to more and more severe sanctions the more iran resists the more the pressure builds and both sides show little sign of giving up and while the west sees only dangerous intentions people here in iran believe it's all down to pride and prejudice or if nationality from tehran. arrival here to discuss the presence in iran is political analyst chris bambery who is live from london for us sir thanks for joining us joining us on the program now this parchin facility i mean if the inspectors actually were gained access to it do you think that this would somehow bring the international community closer to ending this standoff over iran's nuclear program. yes i think you would think it's something that is qui

and as the you want to tomic watchdog resumes talks with iran and we look at why many iranians consider acquiring nuclear energy as not just a matter of necessity but of national pride. good evening you're watching r t with me lucy catherine of let's get straight to our top story now where ukrainian journalist kidnapped by syrian rebels is facing execution on thursday unless a fifty million dollar ransom is paid. has been working in syria during the conflict helping international media outlets including our t.v. now the european federation of journalists has strongly condemned the targeting of reporters our middle east correspondent paula slayer is following those developments for us. journalists on hot coach never was taken hostage in october and no homes the free syrian army has held her for nearly two months they've accused her of being both a russian and a syrian spy she has a kid into you tube videos that were released by the. free syrian army and in one of those she appealed to the embassies of ukraine and russia as well as to the syrian government to meet the demands of the kidna

that hurt the most it hurts iran by. and what about some of these other countries who would be penalize for doing business with iran i mean what what are you hearing is there a reaction i think there's concern about these measures that every time we've seen this in the past there's been this concern for instance you know these sanctions are really going to hit potentially turkey pretty hard because turkey depends on iran for its gas right now they've worked out some arrangements where they're essentially bartering through the use of gold for iran to continue to sell gas to turkey if this gets cut off it's unclear what what turkey can do and so i think my sense is that with the administration would like is for more waivers in these sanctions to give them at the very least some flexibility with our allies to say you know we are actually partners in this we're not you know we're not going into an economic war with you well an example right now a way of i think it is you know china obviously does business with iran and the u

this devaluation of iran's national currency is putting stress on iran's economy.based on their public comments, we believe is putting significant stress on iran's leadership. days after the president issued the executive order this summer, he signed legislation that expands even further the range of existing sanctions on iran. i want to highlight one key provision from that law that together with this summer's executive order represents perhaps the most dramatic escalation of financial pressure to date. under the new law, as of february 6, 2013, any bank in any country that has received a significant reduction determination that is conducting a transaction with the central bank of iran or a transaction involving the sale of iranian oil to avoid sanctions risk only if it makes its payments into an account at a bank within the country that is purchasing the iranian oil, and only if those funds are used to facilitate non section of all bilateral trade between that country and iran. let me repeat this. even with the reduced sanctions exposure provided by a significant

of iran. because if i could not do it will be the first question. but before iran, let's speak about iraq. in the early 80s, decided to attack a nuclear reactor in iraq. it wasn't popular here in the u.s., but we did it and we were condemned by the u.s., the state department. we were condemned by the u.n. years later, people appreciated the grave issue he took was for the benefit of the american people. because then you invade iraq come you are able to go into iraq without the risk of the iraqi nuclear. thus go back to 1973. i'm sure some jewish people and the audience and for us, the jewish people yom kippur is the holiest day of the year, where we go to the shore, we pray 1973 turn yom kippur. even though i thought i knew everything before i wrote the book. when i was doing the research i learned myself a lot. i found out 1973 congress by surprise, were almost an appointment would've lost the war. in the middle of the war, we can go to the sea. it's not the war in vietnam or afghanistan. it

to engage with iran? there's always been a con accept issue -- there is a group of -- one point of view success that the agenda should be kept narrow because otherwise it gives the iranians the opportunity to diverse, talk about afghanistan, bahrain, syria, talk about this, that, and so the agenda has to be narrow as a need of focusing on the issue of the principle concern. that's one. that's con accept issue, as far as i can tell was never resolved. when an issue remains unresolved, the status quo revails. i suspect, given the fact the issue of a bilateral conversation is a last ditch effort, likely to remain focused. should it be considered a last ditch effort? i don't think so. you talk about years of decision, the year of that, the year of that. we have more time on this issue. it's a paradoxical one. think about it as not having the time, yet, there's always more time. you know, everybody, so this is in 2008, 2009, somehow this issue seems to have within its urgency a degree of time flexibility. i do

in the current issue has become like iran after. all what if any. kind of rago. iran. even you. want. but how was it that. the blocks that killed monstrous husband was seduced shown that the clock in the living room stopped at the time of his death both the west and iran are equally failing to move forward iran has law insisted on its right to develop a peaceful nuclear program but suspicion in the west has led to more and more severe sanctions the more iran resists the more the pressure builds and both sides show little sign of giving up and while the west says only dangerous intentions people here in iran believe it's all down to pride and prejudice rife nationality from to her around. tehran university professor citing mohammad marandi told me earlier that the assassinations of nuclear scientists are partly to blame for iran's reluctance to give inspectors access to the parchin site. the iranians don't believe that the international atomic energy agency really has any fear about the party in sight and that it is basically american pressure that forces the agency to take such

kind of a struggle between iran. even. want blood pumping blood cells and their life which is preventing the blast that killed them and serious husband was seduced shown that the clock in the living room stopped at the time of his death both the west and iran are equally failing to move forward iran has long insisted on its rights to develop a peaceful nuclear program but suspicion in the west has led to more and more severe sanctions the more iran resists the more the pressure builds and both sides show little sign of giving up and while the west says only dangerous intentions people here in iran believe it's all down to pride and prejudice. in our tea from teheran israel is using iran as a convenient bogeyman to justify its own nuclear weapons program this is according to iran's former top diplomat in an interview with our team that's coming up in full next hour but here's a preview even today israel is the are always using your own issue. to justifying the nuclear bomb. saying iran is existential threat for israel but t

kind of drago between iran. even you. want to come out of the face which is that the. blast that killed one serious husband was seduced shown that the clock in the living room stopped at the time of his death both the west and iran are equally failing to move forward iran has long insisted on its right to develop a peaceful nuclear program but suspicion in the west has led to more and more severe sanctions the more iran resists the more the pressure builds and both sides show little sign of giving up and while the west says only dangerous intentions people here in iran believe it's all down to pride and prejudice. in our tea from tehran. professor sayed mohammad marandi from tehran university told me earlier that things like the assassinations of nuclear scientists as one of the reasons that iran and denies the u.n. inspectors access to the parchin site. but iranians don't believe the international atomic energy agency really has any fear about the party in sight and that it is basically american pressure that forces the agency to take such steps because it's very west

from iran. syrian leaders claim terrorist groups are behind the deadly shelling in northern syria opposition activists said the attack that killed twenty people with at least eight thought to be children was carried out by government forces it happened in a province that seen fighting escalate in recent months the latest now from our middle east correspondent. what we hearing at least eight children have been killed over that number could be as high as twenty the videos and pictures of the witnessing have been posted to you too but of course it's almost impossible to verify the authenticity the claims are being made by the syrian observatory for human rights the organization known as the age of the gaelic needs to be said that it has given misinformation in the past back in may when there was the houla massacre became was that some one hundred people had been killed but later a lot of the massacre looked for to round it were found to have been false the russian foreign ministry has warned agains

he was to a certain extent standing up to iran and so i would not agree with the. you know saying that the shiites in iraq are somewhat more shiite than they are arabs because as we know you know they do have a history of being having fought you know the main rank and file of the iraqi army during the the the war with iran was basically a shiite army and this is also true today so while there is a certain affinity towards iran in iraq today. iraqis were to a certain extent more willing to compromise with the americans and with the worst but this this policy by the u.s. has effectively caused the shiites and throughout the middle east to become alienated and to join the certain axis of resistance to western interests and what do you think about that axis against western interests. when blame the united states for the sectarian divisions they have existed in the middle east for hundreds of years and they were exacerbated by the iranian revolution you have. a theocracy in iran that has tried to shape the region according to its own interests and a lot of the sunni sta

atomic experts are back in iran to try. to make headway over tensions surrounding a controversial nuclear program is the first visit since talks had a deadlock in august and the i.a.e.a. team is hoping to get some access to some of the sites suspected of carrying out nuclear activities but they're not likely to get inside one area that's the parchin military facility to iran insists that it is a non nuclear site saying that inspectors have no right to access it iran has denied that its uranium enrichment military has military aims but despite the lack of evidence pro proving otherwise israel has repeatedly threatened military action if the policy fails as artie's only if a notional reports of mutual distrust between iran and the international community has already claimed victims. three decades of pride followed by three years of morning when i met her future husband a young physicist she immediately knew he'd come a long way indeed he went on to become one of iran's leading nuclear scientists and to it all ended one sunny

from iran. activists claim a shelling in northern syria has killed twenty people least eight of them said to be true in the province where the allege attack happened has seen fighting between the rebels and troops escalating recent months the u.n. arab league envoy who's been in syria trying to resolve the conflict is to hold talks in moscow this weekend a middle east correspondent his latest. hearing at least eight children have been killed over that number could be as high as twenty the videos and pictures that you're witnessing have been posted to you too but of course it's almost impossible to verify the authenticity the claims are being made by the syrian observatory for human rights the organization known as the age in the gaelic needs to be said that it has given misinformation in the past back in may when there was the houla massacre it came was that some one hundred people had been killed but later a lot of the massacre looked water around it were found to have been false the russian fo

well no it's not going to work because by alienating iran from this equation they're making a lot of problems for themselves precisely in iraq because as you know key previously was much more willing to compromise with the americans than he is now so now the strategy by the us continuing to alienate the shiites in the middle east which was one of the main policies of the of the bush administration this policy of alienating the shiites in the middle east has effectively led to a certain radicalization of the shiites in iraq. as we know nobody in maliki was to a certain extent standing up to iran and so i would not agree with the. you know saying that the shiites in iraq are somewhat more shiite than they are arabs because as we know you know there is they do have a history of being having fought you know the main rank and file of the iraqi army during the the the war with iran was basically a shiite army and this is also true today so while we have there is a certain affinity towards iran in iraq today. iraqis were to a certain extent more willing to compromise with the americans and

from iran. now there's a warning to israel about its settlement expansion is a threat to peace and the two state solution with the palestinians israel's most recent announcement of twelve hundred more homes in east jerusalem brings a total number of housing units planned in the past few weeks to five hundred thousand a middle east correspondent explains the repercussions. what we're witnessing is that israel is continuing with its expansion of settlements and this new announcement is that it has approved the building of some one thousand two hundred new secure homes in globe which is a neighborhood in east jerusalem across the green line it comes in less than a month after israel's controversial statement that it was planning to build in the one corridor all which links jerusalem to the west bank and this is a real line for many states and so be we've witnessed that kind of criticism and condemnation from the international community since the palestinians went to the united nations several weeks

iran is preparing to go on. naval drills in the gas fields of the strait of hormuz in the persian gulf war ships submarines and missile defense systems will be tested iran says it's a peaceful demonstration of iran's defensive capabilities promising it won't violate international law or will respect the maritime border neighboring countries . with the new year and the hair r.t. is taking stock of the events which shape twenty twelve today we look at the coverage of the u.s. presidential debates and the struggle for those candidates who didn't have multibillion dollar campaigns to get a voice. we have been running the election of food series for more than two weeks before the election every single day there was a story by a correspondent running wild guests on the show is so outrageous that truck so given the voice through the third parties was exactly what we needed to get the full picture. we are just a couple hours away now from the third party debate as you can see our production crew is busy transforming our

economy for example iran has been a top foreign policy issue for all u.s. administrations since nine hundred seventy nine. if not topic number one definitely iran has been always between top three foreign policy issues of the united states that's why i believe even in the second term of president obama iran would be if not the most important between top three important issues well now definitely president obama is less constrained before the elections do you think that could mean that he is more likely to get involved in something like a war with iran i believe obama came to office with. engagement polar sea. he himself words since years and he had the good intention he failed to deliver gauge need to feel down due to pressure from congress a pac israeli prime ministers. and very tough policies of europeans because during president bush europeans they had engagement policy but on fortunately engagement policy of president obama europeans they had hawkish policies. i agree with you president obama should have less constrain in the second term. therefore we c

policy towards iran and could get the u.s. into a very dangerous position as far as potentially going to war with iraq iranian officials second that saying and became a place similar role that america back to position forces played in regime change in libya and in the current conflict in syria the main supporters of beasts terrorist groups or counters because they use from that truce to access through political means. new yorker reporter in his article called our men in iran reveals how members of any case were trained by america's joint special operations command in a camp in nevada one one this is part of an anteroom policy sanctions on iran a strong but they don't seem to work very well america started using inside agents to destabilize the country and they're using terrorism as a tool and out of those question the ties between israel and iran according to america's n.b.c. network unnamed u.s. officials confirmed and b.k. was involved in the assassination of a number of iranian nuclear scientists backed by israeli intellige

from iran. to other news now candlelit vigils have been held across india in remembrance of a girl who died after being gang raped on a bus in the capital prosecutors have laid murder charges against the six people accused of her death the twenty three year old was raped beaten before being thrown out of the moving vehicle her body has been flown back to new delhi from singapore where she was being treated. the french constitutional council has struck down plans to impose a seventy five percent income tax rate on rich people it's a claim the proposal was an equal as it was to be applied to individuals and not to households the government has promised to rework the bill as increasing tax for wealthy people has been central to present a long economic policy. france is not alone in trying to raise more cash to fend off the economic crisis facing europe now we bring you the personal side of the story we've been reporting throughout two thousand and twelve which we look back at events. it came to the

is an attack on iran necessary or is there a way to deal with the nuclear armed iran as well as dealing with the proliferation of nuclear weapons more broadly over the coming decades? >> two things. first of all, i would not give up on trying to reach a deal with iran. i don't think that we can make a deal that keeps them from having a nuclear power program. a nuclear energy program. but i wouldn't give up on a deal that keeps them from having a nuclear weapon. that keeps them a certain distance away from having a nuclear weapon. say having some 5% enriched uranium which would still require a substantial and effort taking significant time for them to get a nuclear weapon. now under those circumstances, there have to be enough inspection continued inspection, to provide assurance that that's all that they had. i don't know whether we can reach such an agreement. i don't know what we would have to give. i don't know what else they might have to give in order to reach it. but i think that's worth a real effort to try to achieve. failing that it is possible by an attack, an air attack, to s

produced nuclear bomb before islamic revolution the case of iran's nuclear where the shah of iran was the ally of israel the same is true he's israeli nuclear bomb has nothing to do with iraq right here because it was mastered produced before it would lucian now they are using islamic revolution in order to justify which i would not be so argument. amid growing global financial uncertainty field by europe's debt troubles the leaders of two of the world's key fast growing economies are meeting in moscow on friday brazilian president dilma rousseff is on a visit to the russian capital more on the dogs for martys yeah. well brazil and russia may be on the opposite sides of the planet but the two have more in common than in they seem vast natural resources how rapid economic growth will neither brazil russia were hit as hard by the economic crisis as the united states where the economy's been unstable we've seen the way offshore the european union where there is the debt crisis the eurozone crisis various austerity measures and so on russia and brazil are also members of the alliance of g

from iran. and now to some other news from around the world a plane carrying high ranking concert military personnel has crashed in southern kazakhstan killing all twenty seven people on board the military aircraft was on route from the capital austin island came down twenty kilometers from its destination near the city of kent local media reports the pilots were trying to make an emergency landing and restoration into the crash has been launched. at least seventeen people have reportedly been killed in fighting and all pipeline in east and yemen the violence broke out when the army bands by as tribes attempted to secure the oil route and repair the damage caused by local militants last month the country's pipelines are often subatomic why is the mystery why it is causing fuel shortages on slashing export earnings. for the rebels claim to have seized a small town near the turkish border government forces surrendered after weeks of heavy fighting opposition fighters now control large parts of the

the west is basically blaming iran saying that because iran's pursuing nuclear ambitions there's no proof of any to the weapons programs as such they're blaming iran for a possible nuclear arms race in the region that's a quote from david cameron only days ago so you can circumvent of iran it's certainly not a geo political you know number one priority and i think they've achieved that militarily but you know the question is. is this going to be a real military standoff or we looking at it a cold war situation were we just posturing militarily geo politically looking for some bigger conflict down the road perhaps in a few years well the prospect of military confrontation with iran doesn't seem to be fading anytime soon and want to tehran's closest allies announced that it will not be staying out of the fray. i want to look at how the lebanese militant group hezbollah or spawns two a possible attack on iran later this hour on our team. in britain this christmas there's a bleak choice for many elderly people skyrocketing household bills uncurbed pensions mean that some are frankly forced to

iran rolls out the big guns for new exercises in the vital all routes in the strait of hormuz saying it wants to show it can defend itself while pressure piles up over its nuclear program. plus the pricey parish christmas lights while the crowds but for millions of french in poverty there are dark days ahead. hello good to have you company you are watching r.t. with me and. looking to rejuvenate the un's peace plan for syria international envoy lakhdar brahimi is visiting moscow after american talks in the middle east the push for a truce comes as the wall reaches fever pitch with terrorist attacks and street battles taking a heavy toll on the syrian people are going off as the story. one of our breaking news coming to moscow after meeting with president assad earlier this week in damascus feel little details have been released about its outcome but brahimi himself has been saying that he had a positive feeling and good things were happening there was speculation that they were discussing a peaceful transition of power involving the creation of a transitional government which could i

atomic watchdog resumes talks with iran we look at why many iranians consider acquiring nuclear energy is not just a matter of the city but of national pride. its national news and comment twenty four hours a day this is r.t. . but ukrainian journalists kidnapped by syrian rebels faces execution on thursday and this fifty million dollar ransom is paid cochon of them had been working in syria during the conflict helping international media including r.t. the european federation of journalists strongly condemned targeting reporters for making outrageous demands a middle east correspondent is following developments. the journalist and her coach never was taken hostage in october and holmes the free syrian army has held her for nearly two months they've accused her of being both a russian and a syrian spy she has appeared in two you tube videos that were released earlier by the free syrian army and in one of those she appealed to the embassies ukraine and russia as well as to the syrian government to meet the demands of the kidnappers it's very difficult to say whether in fact these demand

to war justifying the nuclear bomb saying iran is existential threat for easily but the fact is israel is that israel produced nuclear bomb before islamic revolution because of iran's nuclear where the shah of iran was that i live easily the same is true israeli nuclear bomb has nothing to do with iraq because it was massed produced before of evolution now they are using islamic revolution in order to justify which i would not be so human. this is artsy a british inquest review looking at the death of former russian intelligence officer alexander litvinenko is already uncovering new details it's now being revealed that litvinenko was on the payroll of both the u.k. and spanish secret services when he was poisoned six years ago a court in london also hold evidence apparently implicating the russian state in his murder more on this now from marty's laura's. this is not just about the sort of salacious details of spying on the world there is there are wider implications to this and of course there has been the major stumbling block in the u.k. russian relations for the last six years sinc

kay has renounced violence wants peaceful regime change in iran refresh the looks of the organizations record of his from some rainy i'm so aware of legitimizing it mohammed shows me his box of handmade treasures earrings pendants all made from stone the only material he could find in the prison yard big ambition like this is how we killed time and the pain from torture and hunger i still get headaches when i remember this terrible admission valley iranian soldier mohammed spent eighteen years in an iraqi jail during the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. iran iraq war he says he would have been freed earlier if he joined the ek image he didn't help to realize the militant revolutionary group was fighting iran in authority on the side of saddam hussein and recruiting new members a month reasoners but mohamed refused by them they were terrorists killing innocent people i couldn't have anything to do with them i betray my country then the group indeed had a very gory history in the one nine hundred sixty s. it started a bombing campaign against iran's shar and his allies they were linke

iran. i think the administration frankly has lagged far behind the house. we have been far ahead in pressuring iran. a lot of that is because of reuel. we have been united in the house in our effort to do that. i think that congressional pressure frankly is building, building quickly in light of recent events. i am looking forward of course to the conference report that we are going to see now from the national authorization act where we are going to have another chance to tighten the noose. and i want to say that the amendment that would shut down most business with key sectors in the iranian economy, with energy and shipbuilding and shipping and ports, this amendment that would shut down businesses that are involved in sectors which fund the proliferation activities of iran, of that regime, is crucial. in addition, the amendment is going to prohibit business with all designated persons connected to the iranian government. it bans trade and commodities used, it is designed to stop iran fro

produce nuclear bomb before islamic revolution because of iran's nuclear where the shah of iran what are the easily the same is true he's israeli nuclear bomb has nothing to do with the wrong road because he too was a master produced before of evolution now they are using islamic revolution in order to justify which i would not be so you. are not from the category of bizarre many people love their pets but it's the scale of the love which is up for debate in germany parliaments bringing in anti beach geology laws to put the country in line with much of europe but that's caused outrage among the country's large amounts of proud zoo files or he's put all of a found out if it's a quest for morality or a victory for animal rights activists. well i know mom's best friend and sometimes more than that. i need an animal to be happy if i did not have it there would be something missing there are some levels of relationship with an animal that you can fall in love with your animal and then the sexual relationship is not out of the question it's about these people make up some of the estimated

the west and iran are equally failing to move forward iran has long insisted on its rights to develop a peaceful nuclear program but suspicion in the west has led to more and more severe sanctions the more iran resists the more the pressure builds and both sides show little sign of giving up and while the west sees only dangerous intentions people here in iran believe it's all down to pride and prejudice. nationality from tehran. when another country that's no stranger to international isolation has recently seen condemnations soar even higher north korea's successful rocket launchers concerns among its neighbors on the u.n. we ask an expert whether there's a real danger of military confrontation. small britons are in work but joy over the drop in jobless numbers could prove short lived more on that and other international stories after the break. the san bernardino california police force was to shrink by eighty officers this year to cover their budget deficit during a local meeting the chief of police laid out the city's problems the sea is facing waves of gang violence theft drug t

new yorker reporter in his article called our men in iran reveals how members of m.b. k. were trained by america's joint special operations command in a camp in nevada when one this is part of an anteroom policy sanctions on iran a strong but they don't seem to work very well america started using inside agents to destabilize the country and the using terrorism as a tool and out of those question about ties between israel and iran according to america's n.b.c. network and named u.s. officials confirmed and weak a was involved in the assassination of a number of iranian nuclear scientists backed by israeli intelligence service my son by israel secret service this quaint tehran is named after interrogate him an iranian nuclear scientist killed in his own car this area known as been jock is a very popular and vibrant place many people pass through here while heading to the mountains resort outside to hear on an ideal location to remind people about something that shouldn't be forgotten or forgiven. mohammad says and make a recognized as a democratic alternative to reign in a

nuclear watchdog or news talks with iran hoping to examine facilities they believe how secret up comic development might the evidence to back this is pushing this. it's not me i'm here in moscow are you watching our team with me to bomb what's a washington's decision to brand a leading rebel group in syria as a terrorist organization spock's of course of all drage among others who enjoy america's overwhelming support the key rebel coalition recognized by the u.s. as the sole representative of all the syrian people has thrown its weight behind al qaeda linked to al nusra front archies gannett you can experience it's clear that washington is trying to distance itself from extremists in syria they have designated the front a terrorist organization it's thought to be one of the most aggressive and ruthless groups currently involved in the conflict washington's decision to call them terrorists this in as more of a symbolic move because many other fighters in syria possibly most of them welcome the efforts of those that ignited terrorist efforts that include suicide bombings and killing a pe

it lyons is the united states is hoping to bring it down and wants a regime change in syria and iran and wants to get rid of his mullah so it has politicized to a large extent a sunni shiite struggle with saudi arabia and turkey being the two pillars that increasingly egypt the pillars of a sunni arab world against against increasingly iran and iraq ok move it what do you think about that and is it a good strategy is it going to work. well no it's not going to work because by alienating iran from this equation they're making a lot of problems for themselves precisely in iraq because as you know. previously was much more willing to compromise with the americans than he is now so now the strategy by the us continuing to alienate the shiites in the middle east which was one of the main policy of the of the bush administration this policy of alienating the shiites in the middle east has effectively led to a certain radicalization of the shiites in iraq. as we know nobody in maliki was to a certain extent standing up to iran and so i would not agree with the. you know saying that the shii

so if israel targets iran even by itself that if. america will be held accountable for this death. israel's november battle with gaza was seen as a test for a possible confrontation with iran israeli airstrikes rained on gaza in exchange came a barrage of long range mortars and rockets most were held by israel's anti-missile shield the bunch of fun a rocket threat from gaza the war may have showcased newly acquired weapons by palestinian militant factions but hezbollah's arsenal is thought to be of higher quality and quantity and experts say that it could launch four times as many walk its per day as hamas the details of hezbollah stop all are secret but the group's willingness to use it is not. israel was shaken by a few fragile five missiles which could be counted on the fingers of one's hand i want to be able to withstand the thousands of missiles that will land on television and else way if it attacks the flow. was israel and hezbollah came face to face was in two thousand and six since then. hizbullah has now it collated around forty five thousand missiles off various ranges.

programs as such they're blaming iran for a possible nuclear arms race in the region that's a quote from david cameron only days ago so the encirclement of iran is certainly not a geo political scale number one priority and i think they've achieved that militarily but you know the question is. is this going to be a real military standoff or we looking at it a cold war situation were we just posturing militarily geopolitically looking for some bigger conflict down the road perhaps in a few years. well with iran all but surrounded in the middle east is certainly taking sides the lebanese group a militant group of law has joined the fray selling to rain missiles on israel and american bases at the to attack iran over its nuclear program. well for many at this time of the year it seems that it's the size of your wallet that actually dictates just how much festa fun you can afford to enjoy while the shops are reaping the benefits of a commercial boost elderly people in the u.k. surviving on just their pensions are left priced out of the christmas spirit artie's polly boycott takes up the

really looks like it could be used against iran and other vital issue concerning syria's its stockpile of chemical weapons going to russia's jeep diplomats or outside players seem to acknowledge that it's the responsibility of syrian afterwards to keep it safe and that it would be unacceptable if the rebels got their hands on it but then it makes very little sense of why some states in the west continue persuading the rebels to continue fighting by giving the moral political and financial support. of course we'll bring you more highlights from sergey lavrov exclusive interview later today but if you want to check it out right now it's available for you on our website that's our team dot com. almost three billion dollars worth of defense megadeals have been signed between russia and india president putin is on a visit to new delhi in order to cement ties with the fast growing economies as they continue to try and boost their global influence artie's maria often otieno reports on how their improved world standing could be a worrying some in the west. russia and india have signed around t