how can that be, ambassador, when mahmoud ahmadinejad -- i see you laughing -- mahmoud ahmadinejad ising 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 h

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

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

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. that'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 it equality 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 matt drudge the founder of the infamous conservative news site the drudge report is no stranger to promoting far right conspiracy theories but now he's thrown his

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.

and credit suisse isn't isn't the possibility of the mahmoud ahmadinejad or or somebody else you know saudi princes i mean saudi princes are big have been historically big funders of and they were you know one of them in particular was a big donor to george w. bush isn't there a problem with money corrupting our politics particularly international money well first of all you say that is if their laws have been changed then it's ok for terrorists or other kinds of illegals to participate in our legal system and our political says what it is that's not true that that those restrictions have been lifted they still exist the only question you're raising is what further steps ought to be made to make sure that what we say is the law is actually happening but there's no as i just want to know is that ok jacques santini giving the money to karl rove cajuns it's illegal it's perfectly legal that's why if it's a five a one c. for the he is one of them and it made it terrorist list if he's not allow to him him explicitly well you know and so so let's say that somebody who's out on the terrorist

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 run country th

mahmoud ahmadinejad went on state television and called the sanctions political warfare.there to discourage warfare and nuclear weapons. >>> and there was quite a scare last night. the jet just started to take off when the pilot suddenly slammed on the breaks which shook up the passengers. -- shook up the passengers. they are still not clear what caused the problem. they were put on a backup plane which landed on fso hours later. if you are just joining us, big problem on 880. >>> and on hegenberger, we have some good news for you, traffic seems to be unwinding southbound 880 as you drive to the coliseum, since this is not search heavy, we are getting a lot of relief and it is still slow, more your way if we go another 10 or 15 minutes, you should be in pretty good shape. there was a crash blocking the two left lanes and it's congested -- congested but we are getting better. nothing major getting into the city. we are also washing 280 and 880 going to highway 17. >>> two hours ago it was hardly any fog at all and there is a lost low clouds, many are beginning to move in a

mahmoud ahmadinejad went on television and called sanctions political warfare. effort to discourage them from nuclear weapons and they say the program is for peaceful purposes only. >>> mitt romney wraps up his overseas trip in poland. this is mitt romney laying a wreathe at the tomb of the unknown in warsaw. he spoke at the university of warsaw and congratulated poland on its economic success and managed to work in his own economy success as well. >> they are describing how this nation empowered the individual lifted the heftsly hand of -- heavy hand of government... in israel he offended palestinians saying israel's culture allows it to be more economically beneficial than palestinians. >>> and set of trisays there is strong evidence to suggest president barack obama is the 11th grandson of a man who lived in the 1600s. that link is not through the president's father but through his white mother. >>> and the power outages are happening right now in india. more than 600 people are now in the dark. that is about half of india's population. it was caused by the g

iran stamped out own uprising in 2009 after the disputed re-election of president mahmoud ahmadinejad activists say syrian troops are preparing for a major battle in the rebel strong hold. the chief fox report correspondent jonathan hunt is with us. jonathan, how significant is this alepo stand? that is a massive city. >> that's why the battle is so significant. largest city in syria. population wise. it's in the north of the country not too far from the turkish border. that's an area where the rebels are strongest. and they have clearly decided to take a stand in aleppo. from president assad's point of view he cannot lose control of such a syrian city. that's why he is amassing his forces there. u.s. forces think a blood bath is inevitable, listen. >> aleppo again as you said has been bombarded by syrian fighter jets. latest desperate effort of the assad regime to hold on to control and there are credible reports of columns of tanks prepared to attack the city. >>ness nuland said it appears inevitable within days possibly within hours we will be talking about another massacre. >> ano

. >> kroft: iran's president, mahmoud ahmadinejad, shown here at natanz in 2008, blamed the cyber attackownplayed the damage. both the u.s. and israel maintain that it set back the iranian program by several years. what's impossible to know is how much damage the attackers might have inflicted if the virus had gone undetected and not been exposed by computer security companies trying to protect their customers. >> langner: they planned to stay in that plant for many years, and to do the whole attack in a completely covert manner. that anytime a centrifuge would break, the operators would think, "this is, again, a technical problem that we have experienced, for example, because of poor quality of these centrifuges that we are using." >> Ó murchú: we had a good idea that this was a blown operation, something that was never meant to be seen. it was never meant to come to the public's attention. >> kroft: you say blown, meaning? >> Ó murchú: if you're running an operation like this to sabotage a uranium-enrichment facility, you don't want the code uncovered, you want it kept secret. and you