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

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

some people are saying that karl rove is ten million dollar anonymous donation came from iran mahmoud ahmadinejad a strongly as shia muslim who's president of one of the few shia run states in the middle east some people are saying that ahmadinejad's a huge admirer of karl rove and a big supporter of the republican party after all george w. bush decided to bomb sunni iraq not shia iran giving shia ahmadinejad a heck of a lot more influence in the middle east and taking out sunni saddam hussein iran's biggest enemy against whom they fought a multi year war that cost them both billions of dollars and killed over a million people so some people are saying that the ten million dollar gift to rove is payback from shia iran for all the great things rove and bush did for them against the sunni muslims in addition some people are saying that the ten million dollar donation to karl rove has some strings attached that if romney wins or the republicans take the senate then all those sanctions president obama put on shia iran would immediately be lifted and we might even go after another sunni ru

president mahmoud -- that's mohammed morsi opened saturday in defiance of the order. the supreme constitutional court had earlier ruled the results of egypt's first democratic election were nonconstitutional and not all candidates were provided with an equal opportunity. the muslim brotherhood, morsi's power base, came out on top on the election. lawmakers were told to seek another court's ruling on whether the parliament is legally valid. it insists it still has the power to make laws and approve budgets in the absence of a parliament. >>> people in neighboring libya are waiting to find out who will be sitting in their parliament in the future. officials are busy counting ballots from the country's first free election in decades. voters went to the polls over the weekend, less than a year after the fall of gadhafi's dictatorship. the choices they made could have an impact on the region and the legacy of last year's arab spring. nhk world reports. >> reporter: more than 3,000 people ran for libya's assembly. marwa hegaggi is 25 years old. she's the country's youngest

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

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

morsi hosted mahmoud abbas in cairo for their first summit.e became egypt's first democ t democratically elected president last month. many experts believe morsi will be more supportive of the palestinians than was hosni mubarak. the ousted president favored relations with the united states and israel. >> translator: president morsi has promised that egypt will play an important role in solving the palestinian issue. >> abbas wants egypt to pay more attention to the needs of the palestinians and lend a hand in mediating future peace talks with israel. >>> a nazi war criminal will soon face justice for crimes against humanity. prosecutors in budapest detained the 97-year-old hungarian national. laszlo csatary is accused of sending thousands of jews to nazi death camps during world war ii. the simon wisenthal center hunts down nazi war criminals. it says csatary was their most wanted. a british newspaper report heed was living in budapest. he helped deport around 16,000 jews to the auschwitz death camp in poland. he was a police chief of the naz

. >> mahmoud has the same fear of sectarianism. >> unfortunately, they are the supporters of the regime and the people who are fighting now, the syrian people. the syrians will forget that soon. there is going to be retaliation. i have no doubt. >> the end of the regime, he is sure, will not be the end of the struggle, but he does not want to give up fighting. >> winning a medal at the olympics will hang on just a few hundredths of a second, so what is it that is elite athletes the edge they need for success? ahead of the games, we had exclusive access to athletes and world-class scientists and engineers working with them to try to find out if it is the technology around them, there -- their genes or something else. here is our science editor. >> striving to reach the top. we expect our athletes to be almost superhuman, so is it as simple as being the best, or is there more to the performance? what is it that sets them apart? what is it that gives them the edge? mcclaren does not just do cars. at their technology center west of london, a formula one effort is being applied to help brita

. >>> palestinian president mahmoud abbas is looking for answers about the death of his predecessor. he ordered authorities to exhume the body of yasser arafat and carry out an autopsy. a media report suggesting someone may have poisoned arafat with a toxic substance, triggered abbas' decision. al-jazeera release aid documentary based on a nine month. and the tv report, revealed researchers at a swiss institute, found traces of radioactive material on the podium and items falt fat was wearing when he died in 2004. researchers could not conclusively determine the cause of the lay president's death in the preliminary report, because of the material had dekad. officials will exhume arafat's ramallah in the west bank. palestinian thorlt investigators carried out their own probe after arafat died. but they were unable to identify the cause of the death. palestinians have long suspected he was assassinated. >>> representatives of u.n. special envoy kofi anan are looking to in playment an agreement with the president of syria. and he describes his talks with bashar al-assad as constructive

clinton will also meet with mahmoud abbas. >>> scott peterson filed an appeal of his 2004 death sentence. peterson was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife lace i in 2002 and dumping her bod any the san francisco bay. he's always maintained his innocence. peterson's lawyer says the intense publicity surrounding the case prevented peterson from getting a fair trial. >>> a judge set bail at $1 million for george zimmerman. but the man who killed florida teen trayvon martin remains behind bars. his original $150,000 bond was revoked last month when prosecutors said zimmerman lied about how much money he had. the judge questioned zimmerman's honesty and suggested he plotted to flee the country when he was released the first time. >>> you may remember countrywide financial group. the mortgage lenders whose subprime loans started the nation's foreclosure crisis. reports say countrywide had a vip loan program that used discount loans to win influence with congress and other government officials. wyatt andrews reports. >> according to the report, countrywide's vip unit quietly made hundreds

two still here are farmer kaye mahmoud and his two-year-old niece, amina. he told us regime forces executed his brother and burned down his house. how will you explain to your niece what happened here? . >> i will tell her what happened. that the assad army did this to us. we drove south into idlib province, which has seen some of the worst fighting. we met abdellatif al hamoud and his wife, sabriya. three sons have been killed fighting with the rebels. when the revolution started, i provided my sons. they were killed. i still have six. and i pray to god for the others to be martyrs, like their brothers. everyone, it seems, has a story of heartbreak. but rather than weaken them, it has only strengthened their resolve to rid syria of assad. alexander marquardt, abc news, in northern syria. >>> and why the fighting rages and our team reports on it from inside syria, another defection from the syrian regime. syria's diplomat says he can no longer represent a government that has commitmented such violent and the oppressive acts. >>> up next, the olympics. we ha

. >>> palestinian president mahmoud abbas is looking for answers about the death of his predecessor. he's ordered authorities to exhume the body of yasser arafat and carry out an autopsy. a media report suggesting someone may have poisoned arafat with a toxic substance triggered abbas' decision. qatar-based al jazeera released a documentary last week based on a nine-month investigation. they say there were traces of trade radioactive plutonium on him. officials will exhume his body from a mausoleum in the west bank and experts will examine it. palestinian authority investigators carried out their own probe after arafat died but they were unable to identify the cause of the death. palestinians have long suspected he was assassinated. >>> u.n. special envoy kofi annan says he has held a positive and construction discussion with syrian president, bashar al assad on ways to end the violence in syria. >> we discussed the need to end the violence and wayanmes of doing so. we agreed in that approach. >> annan spoke to reporters in the syrian capital damascus on monday after a two-hour meeti

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

a governor's house in may the campaign is targeting alleged gunmen going to palestinian president mahmoud abbas where tom movement around a hundred people have since been relieved for surrendering their weapons. but chairman of britain's the third largest bank has quit its interest rate fixing that saw homeowners and business over charge for loans during the credit crunch micah's ageas is that leaving after regulators slept a four hundred fifty three million dollars fine and barclays for skewing the rate which banks lend to each other other major british banks are also being investigated. they you embargoed of iranian oil has come into effect along with fresh u.s. sanctions against countries dealing with to run the measures i aimed at putting pressure on iran over its nuclear activities but it iran says it's still selling oil thanks to america extending waivers to several countries including china and singapore iran has stockpiled money and imported goods and to reduce the chances of the embargo hitting the oil and banking sectors author and journalist afshin rattansi says the sanctions a

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

in libya's election have now been confirmed an islamic coalition led by water and prime minister mahmoud jibril has won thirty nine out of eighty seats available by the muslim brotherhood gained just seventeen now while the while the west sees the election as broadly liberal journalist patrick hayes believes there's not much for the libyan people to be celebrating. were it not for nato intervention last year i think these elections should really have been something to celebrate the election itself has been administered by the national transitional council which was effectively cherry picked by the west rather that than actually selected by the libyan people it's an unelected body and there have been a lot of disagreements has been a lot of protests over the past nine ten months by the libyan people who are unhappy with the lack of transparency from this government's their own happy with the fact that the transitional council does not represent their views or the people that they want to be in power. and you can watch of the full interview with patrick hayes in just over an hour's time he

because of separate meetings that were held in the past few days between the palestinian president mahmoud abbas the new egypt president dr mohamed morsi of the muslim brotherhood as well as the leader of hamas which controls the gaza strip khaled mashal so this certainly is a gesture of support by the egyptians to the palestinians in a separate and unrelated move israel has just announced that it is demolishing eight palestinian villages in the south hebron hills now the announcement says that the land is needed for training by the israeli defense forces by exercises that they carry out what we understand is that the farmers will still have access to their land to work the land when the soldiers are not there so this would be on the weekend and on jewish holidays but the rest of the time the land will be used by the idea so you are seeing this almost parallel but completely opposing effort by cairo and tell every of on the one hand the egyptians extending a hand of friendship while the israelis further is strange in themselves and isolating themselves not only from the region but from the

governor's house in may the campaign is targeting alleged gunmen linked to palestinian president mahmoud abbas meant around a hundred people have since been released so rendering their weapons. i made a bridge in the third largest bank has quit after it became embroiled in an interest rate fixing scandal marcuse agius is going off the american and british regulators slept four hundred thirty three million dollars fine and barclays askew in the rate which banks are lent to each other at the height of the credit crunch other major british banks are also being investigated and mclean said struggling small firms would charge me much to borrow vital cash to stay in business. the e.u. embargo of your runyan oil has come into effect along with fresh u.s. sanctions against countries dealing with tehran the measures aimed at putting pressure on iran over its nuclear activities but a duran says it is still selling oil thanks to america extending waivers just several countries including china and singapore iran has a stockpiled money and imported goods or to reduce the chances of hitting the oil in