supply, iranian support. and, in fact, the ethnic minorities of iran are located most in the border areas of iran. so it affects a broad relationship with a number of neighboring states, with pakistan, with turkey, with turkmenistan, with iraq because there's co-ethnic on each side of the border for which is meant for the states that iran's neighbors. many of the top leaders of iran actually ethnic azerbaijani. khamenei is from azerbaijan northwest iran. the head of the green movement is also ethnic, and despite the integration of azerbaijani into the leadership of iran, all these done for you minorities are not allowed to use the language in schools that do not allow to use it in court. and the azerbaijani among them a third of the publishing and women going into trust and courts in persian and not understand even what's happening in the courtside. the ethic lenders have a variety towards tehran, towards the state. most of the iranian azerbaijanis i was today seem so the citizens of iran but would like a pla

. >> now, a former iranian political prisoner talks about the abuse she suffered. she is joined bay former obama administration at visor on iran who discusses iran's program. the foundation for the defense of democracies held this event. >> good morning. it's a very interesting panel so i want to get quickly into questions. very quickly set the stage. i don't need to tell anyone who is in this room about the depth of the problem of human rights abuses in 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 w

from owning medicine which is barbaric in the eyes of iranians but the iranians know that attack is carried out on the run their response would be severe and the united states nor israel neither of them would win a war well certainly no military a war perhaps but so far a war of sanctions professor say it mohammad marandi thank you so much the thing that you know the university of tehran. well there is an early christmas present present for britain the jobless rate has shrunk in its biggest quarterly drop in a decade but it's no reason to pop the champagne just yet and sarah first explains why. well some unexpected season would share this week with official statistics showing the u.k.'s unemployment rate has fallen by eighty two thousand people between august and october well the government might have been acting like christmas is coming early but the cold hard reality is that all of course there are going to be a huge number of people right now he simply don't recognize the pictures that they statistics the painting and this one the person is back to work you need to separate out t

hurt ordinary iranians and to silence the iranian people and i think that hurts them more than anyone else because it shows how aggressive western countries are behaving and how irrational and barbaric washington has maintained that it's joe's don't violate iran's borders i mean by any if they do as iran claims what do they look for. well the iranians have already captured a very advanced american drone deep inside iranian airspace and that is a violation of international law they've shown the footage and they've shown the drone last year to foreign reporters so obviously the americans just as they're probably being dishonest now they've. dishonest in the past what is significant is this heightened tensions because this forces iran to behave more aggressively towards the united states and its allies because it sees such actions potential only reason why american drones could be in iranian airspace is for them to carry out surveillance operations against iranian targets professor said mohammad marandi from the university of tehran thank you for your time. it's a good day for spain's ag

want to remind the united states and the europeans that continued threats against the iranian people threats of military attack by saying all options are on the table. will if they are carried out would have a very significant and severe response and any aggressor against the iranian nation would face severe consequences and the same of course is true for the israeli regime i think the place where the. military operations and the maneuvers are being carried out is also significant because the iranians want to remind western regimes that the oil any war or battle in the region would be devastating for the oil and gas market and the world economy with that i mean that's exactly my next point because again as you say iranian officials are often wall that they could ultimately block the shipping through the strait of hormuz which as we understand carries about forty percent of the world's seaborne oil if you really think that option is still on the table do you think iran could indeed try and block the strait and in the wake of israeli and american aggression. i don't think that it's obv

iranian-made and sirenian-made and that inventory of iranian-supplied weapons continues to increase as hezbollah expands its delivery capability. those of us who have seen the consequence of that kind of carnage can only contemplate the consequences if it happens that this terrorist sponsoring, genocide-threatening regime ends up with the world's most destructive weapon. we know that the president has said, not on my watch, but we have to see the administration act with the urgency that this threat demands. we cannot have opposition is to the latest sanctions effort. we can't have business as has been done before. we need sanctions that are going to turn the iranian people against the regime as fast as they can be turned. iran's leadership must feel that their survival is at grave risk if they continue on the nuclear path. and if they don't see it that way and relent with broad sanctions, we have a better chance of bringing about the fundamental type of government change that would better assure a nonnuclear iran in the future. this strategy demands effective communication in farsi. th

atomic watchdog wraps up talks with iran we look at why many iranians consider acquiring nuclear energy as not just a matter of necessity but one of national pride. world is live from our moscow headquarters you're watching r t with me one of the ukrainian journalist kidnapped by syrian rebels faces execution unless a fifteen million dollars ransom is paid. has been working in syria during the conflict helping international news outlets including our t.v. the world's main groups defending the press have strongly condemned the targeting of reporters our middle east correspondent paula slayer is following those developments for us. this coach never was taken hostage in october hones the free syrian army has held her for nearly two months they have accused her of being both a russian and a syrian spy she has a kid into 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 demands will in

now yes, iranians are mostly muslim.but their understanding of this on the severity of understanding. the government of iran is understanding and day for examples do not understand the sharia law. i have to say [inaudible] at that time they had a tribunal that gentleman called [inaudible] also called the hanging judge of iran. he was inducted to kurdistan to take a look at a group of prisoners gathered there. i believe there were 100 quds that there who are committed some vaguely anti-revolutionary, counterrevolutionary activity. the judge did not have time to go throw the cases, so he just said shoot every second of them. when people asked him come assert, some of these people may be innocent. he had a sense of humor. he said he he seek him if they are innocent, they will go to heaven. if they have committed some syndicates the revolution, they receive their punishment. this is how the system is working back then. now it is a different type of system. the revolutionary guard officers presents a new generation of iranian

they had no interesting crippling the iranian economy. frankly that is just what we need to do, you look at that messageing, they were wrong then and i suspect their resistance to dropping the hammer will continue. but i suspect all so that we have a renewed understanding, interest in the importance of moving quickly and intensifying this effort because the stakes couldn't be higher. iran is in violation of its international obligations. from the pace of its nuclear development cited by international atomic energy agency to its refusal to open to inspectors, where it is suspected of conducting weapon as asian tests. i have seen the handiwork of the terrorist sponsoring country of iran. i was there during the war with hezbollah as iranian and syrian made missiles slammed into neighborhoods, slammed into the porch, at one point they even targeted the hospital there. in that hospital i saw 600 civilian victims of these missiles, iranian made and syrian made and that inventory of iranian supplied weapons continues to increase arithmetically a

would look pretty sure by iranian national policy for what you did here. it was. 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 basica

hasn't been buying iranian oil for months now has iran been able to find new markets i believe iranian oil export has decreased fifty percent sixty percent but believe me even if you are in they cannot export one drop of oil they would not give up their rights under the n.p.t. . it really doesn't matter how much you want them exported or not during the war eight years invasion of iraq nine hundred eighty two nine hundred eighty eight we had much more war situation let's move on to syria no how do you think the craft in syria may affect the situation around iran. i believe this would affect more the region the us allies. i believe if they continue like peace syria would go to seed war and civilian war. spreading to iraq so the jordan lebanon and even tortured. iran would be the list to be affected by this spread of civilian war or war from syria. of course iran may lose one friend one partner ashore a set but it doesn't mean. they're radical muslims they are caught they would come to paul where they would be friend of israel or american muslim brother who if they are in power they would

before is a military complex the iranians have a military industry now if. in the past when iran information be passed them on to western countries and eventual we have iranian scientists assassinated because of this information if they've done that in the past why should the iranians trust them to a not pass on this information to the united states. defense capabilities and b. what is the end game. coming out the russian president lashes out at the american presence is down at following a u.s. decision to sanction russian officials alleged rights violations in a high profile corruption case. the city 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 this is facing waves of gang violence. drug trafficking but with all the prisons completely overcrowded many of these criminals go right back out into the street and there's just nobody to put more police out there to fight them the police just really only have one. solution offer a given situat

>> iranians are not on the verge of making a deal.n you actually look at their statement they think they hold the stronger hand of cards. what i do think iranians are trying to do, however, is increase the price of oil because even if they sell it at a discount, if the price of oil goes up, then they get more money to subsidize their economy and their economy isn't a very structured economy. adam: that's the key. their economy is in a shambles, is it not? is that part of why they're essentially what we would say in the vernacular gone ballistic? they're trying to get the world's attention, ahmadinejad, their administration are they not teetering? i don't know if they have protest in the streets because we're not seeing that coverage but the economy is in a shambles. >> the economy is in a shambles but remember this two things. first the revolutionary guard more or less dominates the economy. they dominate the military and also dominate iran's own oil investments. since ahmadinejad came to power in 2005 they have had 35 to $40 billion

apparently has escalating these these drone flights and the iranians have complained to the u.s. that these flights are violating iran's territory the u.s. denies that but we also know that. you know i think was last year or several months ago a spy drone is actually shot down inside of iran we also there have been reports of real cloak and dagger type stuff going on inside of iran where you've had street signs replaced by cameras and and monitoring devices by the u.s. and its intelligence assets inside of iran so there seems to be a pretty thick blanket of surveillance over iran but the problem here is that i mean for one it really doesn't do a whole lot to bolster confidence or trust between the two countries and two there is a need for more oversight and surveillance but it has to be done in a legal fashion and there is a legal basis with which to do that and that's the international the i.a.e.a. the u.n. nuclear monitoring agency and what we should be doing hopefully if we can get these talks started is to work on an end game that involves greater legal inspections by the way

>> yeah, in other words the iranians, one theory is the iranians will mob a few miss. >> missiles into israel and claim they have retaliated and that would be the end of it and maybe hezbollah would launch some scores of missiles of hundreds of missiles into israel and then a few days later it would all be over. personally i don't believe that. i believe that the iranians are not the iraqis who did nothing after the attack on their reactor in 1981, or the syrians who did nothing after the attack on their reactor in 2007. i think the iranians will respond. >> rose: and they could play havoc with the world economy. >> they could play havoc with the world economy. i think you would see a wave of terror across the region, potentially even here at home. i don't think, just for your personal, as per personal opinion, i don't think they would try to block the persian gulf because that would cut their own throats, but i would not be surprised to see them attack the oil facilities of other countries on the periphery of the gulf. and to do other things that would drive the price of oil through t

but the iranians claim they brought down what's known as a scan eagle drone, after it violated iranian air space. it's right now in an iranian studio. it's a small surveillance drone. u.s. navy captains used them to watch their own ships. this is not an armed drone. if the iranians brought it down, the u.s. will see that as a very aggressive action. last month, the iranians tried to shoot down a u.s. drone in the same place. almost exactly a year ago, the iranians brought down a high-tech drone, one used by the cia. that was inside iranian territory. as you said, this will raise tensions in a very sensitive area. u.s. has thousands of service members in the gulf, just a few miles from iran. and the u.s. continues to accuse iran of trying to develop a nuclear weapon. ron? paula? >> nick schifrin with the latest from london. thank you, nick. we'll see you in just a moment. >>> also from london, kate middleton, the duchess of cambridge, is hospitalized there, for a second day. doctors are keeping a close eye on the 30-year-old future queen of england, whose pregnancy was announced just ye

i think the iranian opposition is a key ally of the us leader of the opposition and the terrorist members of the opposition have close ties with foreign embassies in bahrain we can leak some of the old many documents proving that if this is true then washington sitting comfortably it can quickly switch sides if for instance my mom refuses to accommodate the american fleet any further but for now the opposition in bahrain is left to wonder as to why calls to support democracy from some are less worthy of attention than others. r.t. reporting from the kingdom of bahrain. the chief is. syria's military police has abandoned the regime and fled to turkey in the latest high profile defection of the conflict this comes as the syrian government blames terrorists to killing dozens of civilians in the country's north on wednesday the opposition earlier claimed the death resulted from shelling by a sad loyalist artie's paul a slayer has more. one of the main groups to come to the fore is a u.k. based activist group known as the syrian observateur for human rights the pictures are currently witnessin

iranian prisons. the world did not hear about them. we were thinking this cannot be real. 90% of us were under the age of 20 and we were waiting for the world to say something and news does commit to the prison. nobody said anything. the world did not care. the world did not know. i don't know what was warm with the world but there was something definitely wrong. that is why i am here. i am here to make sure that the story of the iranian political prisoners including the ones who are now in prison is heard and my heart goes out to everyone of them. if you are interested in helping them, please come and see me afterwards. thank you. [applause] >> ally, i'd like to ask you -- in the last few years, those of us who write about iranian sanctions policy have heard a lot about the increasing power and ubiquity of the islamic revolutionary guard corps and hillary clinton, a couple of years ago, said that iran was edging closer to being a military dictatorship. when marina talks about the long history of abus

so once iranian terrorist organization gets backing from washington a report from tehran on why many believe little has really changed within the group . and defying international objections israel continues to push for widespread settlement expansion in east jerusalem and occupied territories retaliation for the palestinians recent u.n. status upgrade. around the world and around the mrs kerry just. now the sale season is underway in the u.k. where millions of people are still indulging themselves to some festive holiday shopping but little do they know that much of the money they thought they were spending on iconic british products actually goes straight into the pocket so foreigners. has the story. proud to be british brits interests alike often pay for their quintessentially british experience says unaware that they're run by foreign companies harrods the dorchester hotel and even the queen's grocer fortnum and mason keeping the fortnum and mason is a british store. is it not. it's been here for ages so i assumed it was wholly owned by british people. never mind everything's ok

tear on the ones that the country is making a dangerous move by following washington taking in the iranian militant group the terrorist. and syrian activists claim a government shelling has killed twenty including children in the north rebel fighters attack areas close to the turkish border. are you watching r.t. on carried austin now whether you prefer to hit the high street for the best deals or stop offers online this is a day to do it britain's boxing day bargain hunters are out in force and although they're keeping you cased hills ringing you might be surprised to know whose pockets are being lined. has been finding out. proud to be british brits interests alike often pay for their quintessentially british experience says unaware that they're run by foreign companies harrods the dorchester hotel and even the queen's grocer fortnum and mason keeping the fortnum and mason is a british store. it's been here for ages so i assumed it was wholly owned by british people no never mind everything's blown out you know the reason that things are getting. almost half the companies in the u.k. and

america's goal is to change the iranian leadership's calculus. we have worked with the p-5 plus 1 to put a credible offer on the table. if there is a viable diplomatic deal to be had, we will pursue it. and should iran finally be ready to engage in serious negotiations, we are ready. when iran is prepared to take confidence-building measures that are verifiable, we are prepared to reciprocate. what we will not do is talk indefinitely. the window for negotiation will not stay open forever. president obama has made that clear, and by now i think it should be clear this is a president who does not bluff. he says what he means, and he means what he says. the second shared goal i want to discuss is this -- now that rocket fire from gaza has stopped, america and israel have to work together with partners in the region to turn the ceasefire into a lasting calm. now, we have no illusions about those who launched the rockets. they had every intention of hiding behind civilians in gaza and killing civilians in israel. and they would have killed more of eac

so i think that there's a great deal of urgency with the iranian issue. i think america has to, is going to have to work as the middleman , one side relationship, basically, of restraint preventing israel from going off half cocked on a mission that will drag us into something that we will all regret and at the same time dealing with the arabs who respect coming to us -- aren't coming to us, looking to us for leadership in solving the iranian crisis. i sense a lack of urgency in the white house more than urgency in the sense of scaling back. we don't know what secret circuits and back channel circuits that are active in communicating to the iranians that the outlines of various kinds of compromises on their nuclear program. and so i don't see it as an issue that can, that can pull the two sides together by somehow shunting the palestinian issue to the side. >> right here in the blue. >> my name's katherine -- [inaudible] i was wondering about the op-ed that owe si bay lin published in "the new york times" on monday saying that the united states should sup

landed on iranian territory.r way the new drone is said to be far less sophisticated. the pentagon points out several countries used the scan eagle so theoretically it could be almost anybody's. david lee miller is live in jerusalem. david lee? >> that's right, shepard, the u.s. navy says two of iran's neighbors the uae the united arab emirates as well as kuwait have scan eagle drones. it's very possible the drone that iran is claiming to have in its possession could have come from somewhere in the neighborhood. so, as of now at this hour, there is still a mystery as to where this drone came from. the u.s. says that all its drones in the region have been accounted for. in the past year they have been lost in the water. it happened as early as october. it came apart on impact as it is designed to do it sank. even if iran has the boeing made drone it is not a big security concern. this particular drone was developed originally to keep an eye on fishing boat to make sure they were capturing tuna and not dolphins. it

made a dangerous move by taking on a taurus iranian militant group off its terrorist kind of there is a following a similar move by the u.s. in accepting that the any way has renounced violence and wants peaceful regime change in iran if a national looks at the organizations record and it has from some iranians who are wary of the digital izing it muhammad shows me his box of handmade treasures earrings attendance all made from stone the only material he could find in the prison yard. michel martin this is how we killed time and the pain from the torture and hunger i still get headaches when i remember this talking about the sham valley iranian soldier mohammad spent eighteen years in an iraqi jail during the nineteen eighties iran iraq war he says he would have been freed earlier if he joined the ek image he didn't help he 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. they were terrorists killing innocent people i couldn't have anything to do with them i betray my

to get to the highway that she had some very bad and head injuries and both her legs were broken iranians were hurting from the jet fuel that had come out but she was in a really bad shape still conscious. the same thing. she can saying that your eyes and legs were hurting and in the exhaust you to be put on the ground she was in the shock and disoriented they were only four or five people who volunteered to help. others were too scared to go near the planes as the engine was in fire and they couldn't put a turn for twenty minutes so we were the only ones to give some help. well as we mentioned of the crash has now claimed the lives of five people who were on board the other three are still in critical condition now investigators are trying to fathom why the two block two or four careened off the runway is a relatively new type of aircraft which had never before been involved in a deadly crash. outlines how the tragedy happened step by step and denial this summer the last working day of two thousand and twelve in russia. business is closed off till the next year families. jump into their

threat of a decade and also a place for regime change in the country and maria explains why some iranians are wary of. mohammed shows me his box of handmade treasures earrings pendens all made from stone the only material he could find in the prison yard. michel martin this is how we killed time and the pain from torture and hunger i still get headaches when i remember this time from valley iranian soldier mohammad spent eighteen years in an iraqi jail during the nineteen eighties iran iraq war he says he would have been freed earlier if he joined the ek the mujahideen it helped to realize the militant revolutionary group was fighting iran in authority on the side of saddam hussein and recruiting new members a month prisoners but mohamed refused. 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 linked to the killing of american citizens and welcomed the u.s. embassy siege in tehran

but the united states says hang on, iran, so what is this thing the iranians are showing on iranian state tv? that is ahead. [ female announcer ] the humana walmart-preferred rx plan p-d-p gives you a low $18.50 monthly plan premium... and select generic hypertension drugs available for only a penny... so you can focus on what really matters. call humana at 1-800-808-4003. we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day afr day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] e pill eachmorning. 24 hours. zero heartbur >>shepard: officials are denying claims that iran has captured another american drone. the denial is after iranian state television aired images of this. it appears to be a boeing eagle drone. iranian commanders claim it entered their airspace the past few days but the navy says all this, all of the unmanned airline vehicles are accounted for, thank you. it points out that several gulf nations use the same types of unmanned surveillance

service massage and by israel secret service this quaint tehran is named after terrorists a man iranian nuclear scientist killed in his own car this area known as written job is a very poor 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. mohamed says make a recognized as a democratic alternative to run in authorities feel surreal to him that. nothing's changed they are terrorist tactics may be changed but still the west uses it to get information to get what they want. and the terrorists he says is likely to keep his brutal ways to. from iran. divisive election campaign is looming over egypt with a new parliamentary vote now due to take place within the next two months it comes after president morsi signed and packed the country's first post in a bar constitution party or to stage a referendum the yes vote was confirmed on trees day after an official probe into allegations of vote rigging turned up nothing but a reaction here as opposition

from the torture and hunger i still get headaches when i remember this talk about the sham 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. 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 shah and his allies they were linked to the killing of american citizens and welcomed the u.s. embassy siege in tehran openly calling for the execution of the hostages the terror continued after islamic revolution with the association of the country's president prime minister along with many politicians and clerics generous support from hussein it fought hard in iran as well as saddam's enemies in

hello welcome back one iranian militant group is no longer considered a terrorist organization by canada the us also remains the enemy carry from its own watchlist duran has already warned off her that it's a dangerous move which could turn the country into a haven for militants. has more. mohamed shows me his box of handmade treasures earrings pendants all made from stone the only material he could find in the prison yard. michel martin and this is how we killed time and the pain from torture and hunger and i still get headaches when i remember this time around valley iranian soldier mohammad 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'd 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 among prisoners but mohamed refused 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 his

on board, both iranians and foreigners, in the past 30 years, iranian plane crashes have killed more than 1700 people. iran has one of the world's worst air safety records. that is difficult to win approved despite their industry standards. the country has been under u.s. sanctions since the 1979 islamic revolution. last year, the west street them those directed at the aviation industry, specifically iran air. they say it is not only civilian but provide services to the armed forces. but they say that is politics, and the crash victims are civilians. that is why the captain and his supporters do not want politics mixed up with their police -- mixed up with airplanes. >>> sweden leads the way and keeping their waste out of landfill sites. what can be recycled is and what cannot is burned to provide power for a quarter of a million homes. the only problem is they are not throwing away enough rubbish to feed the incinerators. sweden once your trash. >> warning that all rubbish is not rubbish, they know that recycling is an important part of life in sweden. >> now i have a big family. i

george king idea the perceived fear is that the iranian regime can't be trusted with a nuclear capacity but even those who wanted to to change of leadership say should be non-negotiable for the country i did not really sure was harmed by iranian national policy or maybe even yes i was. kind of a struggle between iran. even you. want to watch something but south device which is preventing. 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 and while the west is only dangerous intentions people here in iran believe it's all down to pride and prejudice rife nationality from to her around. up next in just a few minutes we'll focus on the extremist movement in europe i'm a big huge inflow in a quiet stand. on the edge of human capability. struggling with a dream to. play out to become the first. force pulled in the. do we speak your language anything about the war not advance. the music programs and documentaries and spanish matters to you breaking news a lit

sectarian divisions in syria there are key and the iranian government. position the guardian of what has happening in syria has alienated there are key sunni population even more so i think what happened last week which sparked all of this was a very small event just a few bodyguards of one of the sunni lawmaker whatever stood and then it sparked this huge unprecedented wave of anger along sectarian lines and today some demonstrators suggested they want to bring down the government i coring the slogan and popular votes that are completed elsewhere in the our world our we're likely to see the arab spring reaches rock. there are attempts and i think it is a different case because the same parties including iraq coalition wordless in the. politicians who whose bodyguards were arrested belongs to these are partners in the government so they are. iraqi government is not just shia government or a government run by mr maliki they are growing very strong partner that you see prime minister is from and there are clear. and many of the ministers like mr elise . wh

on iran is something that they would contemplate if they could but i think on the other hand the iranians believe that western countries are much weaker today than they ever were before the defeat in iraq and afghanistan the setbacks in. that israel had in lebanon and gaza make as well as the economic crisis in europe in north america make it highly unlikely but the iranians have prepared themselves and i think that itself has been a deterrent to war so the i think in general the iranians feel that a military assault on iran aggression would be highly unlikely. still ahead for you this hour here on washington's financial stability it's well it's right on the edge as the united states moves closer to the fiscal cliff with congress and the president still struggling to find common ground. dives deeper into conflict we take a look at the key developments in the civil war over the last year that's. a bit later this hour. for a growing number of wealthy britons plan to wave goodbye to the u.k. over the next two years and move their lives and money elsewhere more than a fifth of the country's m

divisions that 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 states resigned and of course the united states is allied with a lot of them including saudi arabia and you can achieve stability boys supporting . the saudi arabia which is the main trouble maker in the region which was caused balkan strong to be become such you know a haven for extremists and this is also the case in syria where because of sold the funding and precisely because of so do support you have all of these judges pouring into syria. the u.k. government has given the green light to a controversial gas drilling technique known as fracking it's heavily criticized for its destructive environmental impacts including causing massive water pollution political has more. driller is the only company with a license to conduct fracking in the u.k. but that's all set to change now that the government has given its blessing for the controversial method of ext

iranian officials claim it was spying in iranian airspace. u.s. officials have not confirmed this report. they say all their drones are accounted for. u.s. officials saying if iran has a drone, it's not one of theirs and not actively operating. >> iran did capture a u.s. drone last december, and last month iran fired at a u.s. drone that it said invaded its airspace. will this just escalate tensions between the united states and iran? >> i don't think it will escalate things, but it certainly won't help tensions. you can take a few things away from this. the u.s. continues to be very active with its drones in the region doing spy work. it certainly doesn't help the tensions. iran and the u.s. keep going back and forth. iran is going to use this to bolster its position that it is the u.s. meddling in affairs of foreign countries, and the u.s. is the bully in the region, and back and forth they go. i don't think this will escalate things between them. >> resa sayah, thank you very much. >>> up next, fiscal cliff futility. in 28 days, crippling tax h

psychological warfare against the iranians they shut down the iranian central bank at preventing iran from even importing medicine some people have died because of a shortage of medicine in iran because of the sanctions that the e.u. and the united states have imposed on the country that hurt them more than anyone else because it shows how aggressive western countries are behaving and how irrational and barbaric. eurozone finance ministers are breathing life into spain's beleaguered of banks by approving a forty billion euro rescue package for them back in june the same minister says they were ready to provide aid of up to one hundred billion euro race despite the recession madrid is trying at all costs to avoid all skinful a save in bailout the salvation of spain's for nationalized banks comes as brussels discusses the very future of the whole european banking system dutch politician to one mendoza says the spanish government has brought the crisis on itself there is a fundamental flaw within the banking system which is there so the government has basically taken over the banks the g

the drone, now being shown on iranian television. on tv behind the aircraft is a map of the persian gulf with the words, quote "we shall trample on the u.s.." the united states says all of its drones in the middle east have been accounted for. the drone iran says it has is a scan eagle, made by boeing, being used more by the u.s. navy. reza sayah joins us now from cairo. good morning, reza. >> reporter: good morning, carol. first off, we should point out it's not clear what, if anything, iran has captured. we're getting very two different stories from tehran and washington. washington denying iran has done anything. iran with a very different story and they're already using this to say that they've score d a bg intelligence victory over the u.s. the reports in state media in iran started early, according to iran captures a u.s. drone after it flew into iranian air space, southern iran. iran describing this drone as a scan eagle, about a ten-foot wing span that can go about 24 hours without refueling. iran already boasting a win, putt

george king idea the perceived fear is that the iranian regime can't be trusted with a nuclear capacity but even those who want a total change of leadership say it should be non-negotiable for the country i cannot tell you she has come like iranian national policy for many years and yet i have come to find out the struggle between iran. even here that wants life from the south and the rise which is preventing. the blocks that killed them and serious husband was so strong 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 and while the west is only dangerous intentions people here in iran believe it's all down to pride and prejudice rife nationality from to her around. stay tuned for a lively discussion and peta about cross-talk in just a couple of minutes telling us. to me speak your language. programs in documentaries in arabic in school here on all t.v. reporting from the world's hot spots to be ip interviews intriguing stories for you here. in trying. to find out more visit our big teeth dot com. you know how