karzai and iran's mahmoud ahmadinejad who were invited along what can we expect from these meetings. well the meetings will happen later on in the day right now the delegates have just been arriving but with regard to the meeting with mahmoud ahmadinejad again we expect russian president dmitry medvedev will be talking about the nuclear program as well as possibly comment of views on what is happening in north africa and the middle east with regard to afghanistan aside from the drug situation they do have a number of trade deals that are said keen that definitely on improving its economy seeing this as key to a stabilizing the country hopefully after need so the country so drugs and trade deals are definitely on the table for. me she needs yet of. our attention thanks very much indeed for bringing us the subway will be crossing back to you for more of course as the day progresses. and there's plenty of have for you and the program here in r t including why the u.s. is the biggest secret cia drone things in the persian gulf to fly militants. plus they went to the waters of the arctic

all right so just wednesday's president of iran mahmoud ahmadinejad it was that they sang high cooperation organization in summit in kazakhstan now this is billed as a group to be a secure a rival to nato that was founded in two thousand and one to take a more active role in ensuring regional security as is always the government excuse for such things now i want to show you couple quotes from mahmoud ahmadinejad at that summit from his typical firebrand speech and then you'll know well here we go he said have any of us have any of our countries played a role or played a part in the creation of nine eleven under whose pretext afghanistan and iraq were invaded and more than one million people have been killed or wounded now regardless of what you think happened on nine eleven or whether government or governments played a part in the creation of it clearly the excuse here. of nine eleven to do all these other things kind of cause a little bit of resentment throughout the rest of the world here's another quote. have any of us use an atomic bomb against the defenseless citizens of another count

. >> rose: june 12 marked the second anniversary of president mahmoud ahmadinejad's disputed reelection in iran. claims of fraud sparked the largest popular demonstration since the 1979 islamic revolution. the government responded with a deadly crackdown. mr. zacarias moussaoui was in the... mousavi was placed under house arrest and there appears to be growing divisions between ayatollah hamanahi and ahmadinejad. joining me is doctor ervand abrahamian. welcome. >> ( translated ): thank you very much. >> it's a pleasure to have you here to understand where reform is in iran today. give us an overview of where reform is, where the reform movement is, where the green movement is. >> ( translated ): well, the green movement started after electoral fraud was noticed and there was a period of time duringhich there were a lot of demonstrations, large demonstrations, more than three million people demonstrated in iran, in tehran. after that, there was violence, repression of demonstrators, the government used any possible means they had to suppress the people, to jail the people. they tortured

raised eyebrows members of natori courts i have spoken several times with iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad who they call a peace loving leader. we've publicly praised turkish officials and even traveled to the country last year visiting injured activists following the israeli raid on the gaza flotilla. very often overseas demonstrations against israel have turned violent from london and montreal to the middle east a bloody and bruising backlash has transpired critics have classified tory courted jews as extremists and israel supporters deem them as traitors even here in new york city. the. rabbi weiss is familiar with the dangers and that's around. ready to go live to see it it's very it's not an easy life devoted to their faith even if it means facing contempt every step of the way. archie new york. well a stronger pro israeli lobby in the u.s. is leading some critics to say washington is not a fair broker in the middle east peace process and more that you can check out the columns section on our website. intriguing technique not brown writes about why some u.s. senators are openly opposi

lieutenant augusta, mahmoud ahmadinejad samuel alexander and lance corporal martin gill from 42 commando royal marines and corporal michael pike from fourth battalion. they all showed enormous bravery and courage and our thoughts are with their family and friends. and as the prime minister said, these number of deaths once again demonstrates the bravery of all of our forces in afghanistan and elsewhere around the world. mr. speaker, we read in the newspapers today that the prime minister has torn up the justice secretary's policy on sentencing. has he? >> what we want is tough sentences for serious offenders. this government produced -- we produced a consultation paper a wide consultation paper that had wide consultation and wide support for the proposals it made and in the coming weeks we'll be publishing our legislation. >> ed miliband. >> but, mr. speaker, we read in the newspapers today that the prime time's torn up the justice secretary's proposals because he felt he had to step in and, frankly, i can see why because there is widespread public concern around this country about this

prime minister for foreign minister that is did come out and said that and confirmed that mahmoud ahmadinejad's did confirm to a president medvedev that iran is going is that is in total renouncement of plans to possess nuclear weapons and there you have it the word said that according to mr lavrov had come from my dinner job now this is important because the nuclear powered nonproliferation has been a major topic here at the summit as well as the controversial nuclear program of iran and also discussed at that meeting is the. plan of iran to work with the members the six men. burs here in order to get rid of the u.n. sanctions because the u.s. has really proving to be a hurdle. for membership but aside from president get it also met with. of course the drug situation in the country which is threatening to security russia as well as the potential business deals between the two countries big deals apparently because russia is willing to contribute a lot to the rebuilding of the country. coming from the iranian president. with security one of the region's. chief today. that's right where we actua

shanghai cooperation organization summit russian president dmitri medvedev had sat down with eros mahmoud ahmadinejad in a closed door meeting and according to a foreign minister sergei lavrov an important statement had been made at that meeting. confirming to dmitri medvedev it's total renouncement of clients to assess of nuclear weapons and of course statement to be made at a time when there's a lot of international pressure on iran in this regard now russia had also raised the possibility of a more constructive cooperation between iran and be a five plus one nations referred to the a five permanent members of the u.n. security council plus germany as well as the importance of increasing transparency between iran and the international atomic energy agency now aside from the issue of the new its nuclear program and nuclear nonproliferation iran had also said that it is willing to work with s.d.o. members in it lifting u.n. sanctions now iran is seeking full membership by the c.e.o. and the sanctions against it is proving to be a hurdle so it seems that iran is willing to work on this in order to cle

mahmoud ahmadinejad of iran will be meeting on the sidelines and expectedly to talk about agenda is the controversial nuclear program as well as a bilateral agreements on how to tackle the threats that they face both in terrorism and separatist issues so we're looking forward to a conversation that he agreements called me to come out of also president of will be meeting with afghanistan separately and we expect that the broad topics of being brought up in plenary session will again be brought up drugs topping the agenda as well as the big investments that russia is planning to bring into the country because russia is is keen on helping afghanistan and through the problems that they will be facing continue the efforts of rebuilding the country so. thank you very much. well you are watching r t and are still ahead for you in the program why is it that the u.s. is building a secret cia drone base in the persian gulf to fight militants in yemen. now the jailing of at least seven thousand people by egypt's military rulers will be reviewed by the nation's interim leaders amid allegations of t

along be a meeting between russian president dmitry medvedev and iraq's mahmoud ahmadinejad it was a closed door meeting however afterwards foreign ministers and gay lover all did come out and said that iraq would have a digit it did confirm to president medvedev that iran is in total renouncement of plans to possess nuclear weapons so this is important because the nuclear powered nonproliferation has been a major topic here at the summit as well as the controversial nuclear program of iran and also i discussed at that meeting is the. plan of iran to get rid of the u.n. sanctions because the u.n. sanctions really is a privilege moving to be a hurdle even before membership into d.s.t.o. but aside from iraq's president get it also mansour with the leader of afghanistan and here they had discussed of course the a drug situation in the country which is threatening to security of russia as well as a potential business deals between the two countries big deals apparently because russia is a willing to contribute a lot to the rebuilding of the country to touch on a whole range of important

hours but we can expect at least from a meeting between president dmitry medvedev and eros mahmoud ahmadinejad will touch of expectantly touch on the topic of the nuclear program as well as security in the region possibly common approaches between the two countries a bilateral approach to the situation in north africa and the middle east now with the president hamid karzai of course as we have seen in the past the talks will definitely be dominated by finding a solution to drugs again the countries here had said that they want a nonmilitary military solution to the problems that afghanistan is facing so we expect to hear this as well as trade deals between russia have got to start russia being very willing to invest in afghanistan and help its economy in order to a lift a country out of the problems that it is facing. all right tess thanks for much indeed for bringing us this update from nasa now worth a c.e.o. summit is taking place and of course we'll be crossing back to you thank you. well there's plenty of have for you in the program here in our t.v. including why the u.s. is building a se

would have gone negotiating the protection of this government as negotiated with the president mahmoud ahmadinejad. estimate of the leader of the opposition. >> this question as to the prime minister and i refer the prime minister to the latest version of the report. in particular, where this statement is made australian households will ultimately hear the full cost of a carbon price. let me repeat that mr. speaker, australian households will ultimately bear the full cost of the carbon price. so why ask the prime minister how can she continue to maintain that her tax only makes the polluters pay? >> the prime minister. >> thank you very much, mr. speaker and i think the leader of the opposition for his reference to the review which he gave me earlier today and about which he thinks the national press club has the review in my hand it's the product of seven months and i think we should thank him as an australian parliament and as an australian nation anticipated to agree with every view put forward but that shouldn't stop us actually from thinking him for his work and respecting him and his profess

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mahmoud ahmadinejad and kim jong il or as we refer to them in the situation room -- 2 and half men. [laughter] isn't he cute? a little man. now, attorney general eric holder at my direction will be fighting the alabama controversial immigration bill that is even more extreme than arizona. it states that the police have probable cause to check anyone's immigration status if their complexion is greater than or equal to that of the john "the crybaby" behner. do you want to see my impression of john boehner? [crying] what do you think? i have been working on that for months. i don't know why that man cries so much. let me be clear -- i am against any state interfering with federal immigration law. shortly after arizona passed its bill, i received a letter that said mr. president -- i was born in this country. i get up early every day. i worked extremely hard supported my wife and kids and still the police stop me in question my intentions. i don't think senator mccain should be treated that way. [laughter] or do i? i am proud of all that of listening to the attacks from my opponent and

and selling gasoline to mark mahmoud ahmadinejad is another link. hugo chavez should be staged -- placed on a state sponsor of terrorism list immediately. >> recent venezuela is not a state sponsor of terrorism is because of all the oil that comes from there? >> i think they have a hard time answering that question and i think that is the answer. they don't see the draw you in other sources of oil like canada and wants to send $117 million a day to venezuela. i would say this -- if the state department and the administration failed to act and don't want to act the at miss -- the american people need to stop buying gas from citgo and forth this on the state department because people in america do not want to continue to support terrorist organizations. [inaudible question] >> we have a lot of support for it. in the last four years you have seen a wide broadening support for this idea. we have republicans and democrats working together all recognizing that hugo chavez supports terrorist organizations and should be named a state sponsor of terrorism. >

. >>> today, iran's president, mahmoud ahmadinejad, there he is there, he's at a summit meeting thats of china and russia. in his speech here, the president called for a shakeup of the world order which he said -- i'm wroting now was run by slavers and colinnizeers of the past. >>> according to "the new york times" pakistan's intelligence agency arrested some of the pakistani informants who gave the information to the cia before the u.s. commando raid that killed osama bin laden. knew, according to the times, those a -- now, according to the sometimes, those arrested include a pakistani army major who copied the license plates of cars going into bin laden's compound in the weeks before that raid. another person that was arrested was reportedly the owner of a statehouse the united states used to spy on bin laden's compound. what's gonna happen to those informants is not clear. the arrests of the latest indication of a pretty bad relationship between the u.s. and pakistan. >>> and just within the past five minutes we've found out that another american missile attack has killed five sus

he worked his magic to bring world leaders like tony blair, hugo chavez, benjamin netanyahu, mahmoud ahmadinejady in front of his lens, in some cases he was just inches from their faces. the photographer platon has collected these faces and published them in a new book called "power." he joins us live to tell us the back story on these photo. thank you so much for coming on. the book is amazing, it really is. so interesting to look through. i want to start with what you were hoping to accomplish with taking these photographs. >> it's great to be here. i first got the idea for this project at the beginning of what we now call the great recession. and it occurred to me that there's very few problems we can solve in isolation. in fact, countries are going to have to start working together in a new and unprecedented way. almost forming something like a global administration. and if there was such a thing, who would be at the table? we're always used to seeing our world leaders shrouded by sort of hype marketing and even propaganda. i wanted to show them as human beings up close and very personal. >>

there will be penalties to pay for assisting and accommodating the terrorist iranian regime of mahmoud ahmadinejad. thank you, and i yield back my time. >> we'll now recognize the gentleman from american saw mow ya. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i do want to commend both of you gentlemen for calling this committee meeting this morning. i have listened in interest in be terms of providing sanctions to those countries that violate our laws as well as international laws. i think we've got sanctionitis. just about everything we do, we put sanctions, and i have my own serious questions about the consistency of how we apply our foreign policies when we apply sanctions against countries. i'm not suggesting that we don't put sanctions on venezuela, but there seems to be a whole bunch of contradictions here. we put sanctions, and yet i believe venezuela is one of our biggest suppliers of oil coming to our country, and i'm very curious from our witnesses if you can give us more information on citgo, i believe, currently one of the biggest oil distributers in the our country. as long as there are holes in if b

there will be penalties to pay for assisting and accommodating the terrorist iranian regime of mahmoud ahmadinejad. thank you, and i yield back my time. >> we'll now recognize the gentleman from american saw mow ya. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i do want to commend both of you gentlemen for calling this committee meeting this morning. i have listened in interest in be terms of providing sanctions to those countries that violate our laws as well as international laws. i think we've got sanctionitis. just about everything we do, we put sanctions, and i have my own serious questions about the consistency of how we apply our foreign policies when we apply sanctions against countries. i'm not suggesting that we don't put sanctions on venezuela, but there seems to be a whole bunch of contradictions here. we put sanctions, and yet i believe venezuela is one of our biggest suppliers of oil coming to our country, and i'm very curious from our witnesses if you can give us more information on citgo, i believe, currently one of the biggest oil distributers in the our country. as long as there are holes in if b