the president out of iraq iran iraq. you know it name metadata jaffery thought. us a presidential election looming ahead we set out on to the streets of new york to find out how much americans know about the building blocks their country's policies at home and abroad. britain is reportedly working on an emergency plan to shore up its economic defenses case of the euro doomsday u.k. treasury said to want to avoid an influx of economic refugees plans include evacuating british ex-pats from affected countries who find themselves unable to withdraw cash or financial analyst robert awls says attempts by european leaders to avoid the worst case scenario only making it more difficult. leaders are trying to shore up the eurozone by having greater degrees of centralization and more having countries like france and germany have the final say in a sense over the budgets of those e.u. member states that have excessive budget deficit but that really isn't the answer to the problems what's really needed is either a massive injection of cash into countries like greece and italy

what america wants from iraq is not what iran wants from iraq.he balance of power is shifting with the end of u.s. forces in iraq. >> there is a u.s.-iran dimension, no doubt. and there is -- although both u.s. and iran wanted saddam out, beyond that, more than power, there are significant differences between the united states and iran with regards to iraq. we would have liked to maintain a military presence beyond the end of this year. the iranians are very much opposed and they used their influence quite cleverly to preclude such a presence. but now we can adapt by using intelligence as a means with u.s. intelligence with iraq. >> when you were ambassador to baghdad and you envision the day that american forces would leave the country, are the leading the country to a better off or worse off than you had imagined back then? >> i think it is better off. the dark days of the 2006-2007, when the country was threatened to fragment along sectarian lines. the institutions of iraq have grown since then. but i did not think, frankly, that we would be c

is not iraq iran is much much stronger militarily. and they have many many cards to play i think the americans do that very well they want to pressure these countries. the edge of the t.v. playing that kind of game as far as possible settling of invasion in order to to have more kids concessions by iran i doubt whether this policy will succeed because the americans are very very well known in the region there is no credibility for the americans american interest now is the care they want is they do anything. country in the they want israel is the only nuclear power in the agent is the military american base and they have now the americans i saw fond of establishing bases in the region almost only a few countries in the region don't have american military base including turkey which is a very very country of seventy million the biggest one of the biggest military bases in turkey they were considered to be is a spearhead against the soviet union at that time and i think the same duty is now but the name is not soviet union now than it w

that we had in the case of iraq and now having case of iran on the other hand we must remember that in case of iraq they talked about. weapons that in fact did not exists. today they are talking about iranian intentions of may or may or may not exist. but the difference is that iran certainly has a lot of nuclear installations iraq did not have that but in your own opinion is iran of any imminent threat to any nation at this point i don't think so really. the it is true that you are merely dad has come out in the very a very bad language about israel wiping israel off the map of the world but i think most people would think that he is really talking to the arab street he has wanted to destabilize arab states that have supported the united states. iraq iran does not have a track record of aggression in fact there was iraq that attacked iran so i don't see an immediate threat from iran but i can understand that israelis are nervous but the u.s. and israel maintain the latest i ate a report provides very strong evidence that iran is seeking any clear weapon. here's the question do you thi

it is clear that what america wants from iraq is not what iran wants from iraq. you have this balance of power between america and iran which is shifting with the end of u.s. forces in iraq. >> there is a u.s.-iran dimension, no doubt, and there is a difference of attitude, although the u.s. and iran both wanted saddam out. but beyond that, beyond the establishment of a temperaturic iraq in which the shiah majority was empowered, there are significant differences between iraq and iran. we would like to maintain military presence beyond the end of this year, and the iranians are opposed. they used their influence cleverly to preclude such a presence. but now we can adapt by using intelligence as a means and some of the other military relationships with iraq. turkey willles be very important. that is the other key player. >> when you were the ambassador to baghdad, and you envisioned the day that american forces would be leaving the country, are they leaving the country better off or worse off than you had imagined back then? >> well, i think it is better off than t

iraq iran does not have a track record of aggression and in fact there was iraq that attacked iran so i don't see an immediate threat from iran but i can understand that israelis are nervous but the u.s. and israel maintain the latest i report provides very strong evidence that iran seeking a nuclear weapon. here's the question do you think iran has a nuclear weapon. no i think in nobody really thinks they have a nuclear weapon and i think one must read that report rather carefully what they say is that they see some evidence that could explain could be explained if they were dealing with a weapon or a mere weapon and that there seems on the other evidence that is very hard to explain unless they were working towards a weapon but they have not said that they established that iraq or actually intends to do it they might stop short of their weapons well judging from your experience how should this intelligence be treated and how far can actually i.a.e.a. go in checking the credibility of such intelligence. well they do it on not the average see here in the iran and it's a big country an