middle east policy never made any sense in the first place. now as i said, the most powerful part of the lobby by far is the oil lobby, the saw the lead part of a lobby and i cover a lot of this and the board going back 70 years. we can't go through all of that tonight so on want to focus on a couple things. when you think about saudi arabia today, you say of the saudis have a tremendous wealth and the greatest oil reserves. of course we are going to be willing to take their interests into account but the remarkable thing i found in doing research for this book is we had the same attitude of letting the saudis, worse us 70 years ago when they were just discovering oil. they hadn't pumped a barrel yet. we didn't need any of their oil and they were essentially bankrupt. they carried their wealth around in a treasure chest in the desert and when the king got through handing out money to different tribes to keep them loyal. he turned to the oil companies to say i need money. then the oil companies would turn to the u.s. government and say the king

policy in the middle east today with our. sweet and clean. salty and very useful. radioactive and dangerous. and even dead and desolate. they only keep their unique secrets and their bottoms unique lakes on our t.v. wealthy british style holds it is not on the title. that it is not about the. markets why not scandal to find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on . the and he says. the it's difficult to keep the. welcome back to rostock prime peter lavelle tree mind you were talking about the peace process in the middle east the at the peak of the system. but first let's see what russians think about this issue. the middle east policies of president obama may well prove the most detrimental in history the us government is now seen to be openly and publicly complicit in all the israeli violations of international law and possible resolutions we while the for a child made this peace process is merely contingent on settlement building washington has offered israel twenty brain will strike fighter planes three million dollar worth

he whether president obama is leading middle east peace into a dead end. he can. still. be. alone and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle playing the blame game and where to go from here the u.s. led drive to find a final peace settlement among the palestinians and israelis has faltered badly even after the perceived bribe offered to israel by the obama administration is the ball in israel's corner now. can. you discuss the middle east peace process i'm joined by gideon levy in tel aviv he is a herat columnist and author of the recent book the punishment of gaza and in boston we have alan dershowitz professor at harvard law school and bestselling author and another member of our cross talk team yelena hunger getting if i go to you first in tel aviv. the word bribery is being used a lot right now almost across the board and the deal is that israel to commit to another ninety day one off moratorium on settlement building in occupied the occupied west bank in jerusalem they've been given a three billion dollar military deal lots of jets there and if there were any kind of r

policy in the middle east stay with our. sweet and clean. salty and very useful. radioactive and dangerous. and even dead and desolate. they all keep their unique secrets their bottoms unique lakes on our t.v. . seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand desert of beach front wheel several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. you see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course is the very most appropriate city signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only garbage but to a chair way where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. return to terra what julian cooper story on our t.v. . and. say. welcome back to cross talk prime people about tree mind you were talking about the peace process in the middle east. and you can. see it. but first let's see what russians think about this issue. the middle east policies of president obama will prove the most detrimental in history the us government is now seen to b

was the thing to do to the middle east where we did to europe after world war ii. that is another one of my favorites as though somehow you can take a template from one area and put it in another. >> guest: the reason that kind of thinking is there is only because we don't see them as just like us. we understand we lost 3,000 people in 9/11 and that will be with fosse long, long time and off to remained with us and people who don't remember that americans lost and are still afraid and concerned, etc., and angry about what happened, will pay the price for not knowing that. but when i rockies lost 100,000, when the lebanese lost 1400 a country of only 3 million people mean, and the palestinians lost the same number in gaza, and there will be a killing on the west bank and they will write an article that will say after a period of time and that period of time when the tide 100 palestinians, and we just don't think of their lives as equal to or alone if they just don't understand that they lived with this and they feel this hurt and if we sold them as people like us i

was in the middle east scholar? >> guest: maybe he has inoculated himself immune from it, the problem was people obviously were afraid and believe it, and the campaign reached a level of hysteria. the poor woman, an extraordinary woman who was the person who was put in charge of the school had been at an event where students were wearing a shirt that had the word in sada -- -- new york and the students meant it literally, on econ as a coming out, peeling off of the younger generation rising up in new york and doing great things. but "the new york post" pleaded as a call for the insurrection and violence, etc., and she wanted to define the word "literally," which only infuriated pipes and company more, and by the end of the accord, major bloomberg and others in new york were saying to hurt you got to step down and leave the job. and by then, it was over. they had tainted the public discourse about the school that by the time it opened, it was no longer in arabic school. it was longer, you know, meeting of the very sp

middle east institute and the like, i think, are doing wonderful work.ithin the jewish community there's a tremendous new development in the way organizations that are advancing jewish/arab communications and dialogues all across the country. i mean, the reception that the book is getting is wonderful and indicative of the fact the people are wanting to reach out. at the same time, there is on another level, i think, a hardening of attitudes here. and it's the same in the arab world. you know, i look in the book at corporations that are doing marvelous work of being good citizens, projecting america in the middle east. i think our state department has reached a better approach, come to a better approach to doing the work that they do in the region. we certainly are way beyond where we were in the charlotte bierce era. but at the same time, you know, there's stuff going on in the arab world that's just horrible. and so, yeah, i mean, but, you know, it's kind of an uneven development where there's good stuff and then there's really bad tough. on balance i

policy in the middle east stay with r.t. . if you. want. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images kobolds seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand days. of beach front battlefields several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. you see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course is very most appropriate signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only garbage but to accumulate where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. returned to terra while julian cooper story on our t.v. . welcome back to cross car crime people about to remind you we're talking about the peace process in the middle east. but first let's see what russians think about this issue. the middle east policies of president obama may well prove the most detrimental in history the us government is now seen to be openly

policy in the middle east stay with our. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on the. wealthy british scientists and. it's not time to. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cons a report on r g. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dead is a battlefield several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. you see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course is the very most appropriate signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only garbage but to accumulate where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. return to tara what julian cooper story on our t.v. . series. welcome back to cross talk prime people about to remind you we're talking about the peace process in the middle east. but first let's see what

strivinghrough the eyes of those in the middle east.ople of israel, let my people go, he did so, and in doing so, showed that liberty is not something passive. it is something active. when i spoke earlier about my speech, i said, would he like me to speak about? he said i do not know, but make it short. [laughter] i will give you just a few minutes, my seventh lessons of liberty. the first is that every milestone on the road to liberty marks a struggle. liberty is not required by accident. it is won by endeavour. no people, no country, no nation has ever won their liberty except by striving. in creating liberty, there is opposition. there is even defeat, and occasionally despair along the way. liberty is about the overcoming. the second lesson is it comes from people who lead. my office in london is in john thes' old house, which is first campus -- ambassador to the u.s. through the court of st. james and the president. he was -- believed in god as creator but put aside religious dogma. he and the work of others and the beliefs of other

discuss the middle east peace process i'm joined by gideon levy in tel aviv he is a herat columnist and author of the recent book the punishment of gaza and in boston we have alan dershowitz professor at harvard law school and bestselling author and another member of our cross talk team you know in the hunger again if i can go to you first in tel aviv. the word bribery is being used a lot right now almost across the board and the deal is that israel to commit to another ninety day one off moratorium on settlement building in occupied the occupied west bank in jerusalem they've been given a three billion dollar military deal lots of jets there and if there were any kind of resolution coming from the world at large wanting to recognize the palestinian state. beyond these negotiations and netanyahu and his government who are still thinking about it maybe maybe looking for more of a deal i mean how weak is the united states in and pushing its strong ally in the middle east to commit to the peace process because there is a lot of depression about the process right now go ahead. i'm not sure

and the middle east department working on the history zionism and at that time a book appeared to draw on peter's book from time immemorial which was receiving an enormous praise everywhere under it's a lot of reviews the greatest thing since chocolate ice cream. the poll was completely preposterous and worthless the book said that there were no palestinians in palestine until the zionists came along and made the desert bloom and then the palestinians began to arrive to palestine it was the book that was a no value whatsoever it simply recycled very old and stale israeli propaganda but it was the book that american jews want to have because it completely whitewashed israel. and the book was a huge success and received every accolade in america until norman finkelstein wrote a longer view article in which he exposed the spurious scholarship behind that book and i send out my findings to like twenty five people tied them up. and then once are they morning i got a quote from professor chomsky you know this is noam chomsky and he said i read your writings in the base on the right to me i m

look at china, look at the middle east itself because it has enormous economic growth in the middle east is the second largest in terms of the demand than india or asia, latin america. on the other hand, the old world, oecd, we have the problem of the demand in part because of the population growth we no longer have population growth in europe and japan is actually declining. the united states is still going but finally, both mr. bush and mr. obama we have initiated a once and for all changes from building the the least efficient in the world to just as efficient princeton asia. now changing patterns are going to be very important. china and india together, 2.5 billion people, have 20 billion barrels of oil compared to the 28 billion in the united states and 12 billion in europe. add these giants of the industrial world and the giants china together and compare that with the gcc to read the gcc alone holds up to 5 billion barrels and plus iraq and iran some 750 barrels. what ever we have is a tiny fraction of what he would find in the middle east. between the countries i just mentioned,

peace in the middle east in possible. all i thought it was.gory is the author of how to make in the people of middle east and six months or less. he believes he can be done because and that's what he wanted. >> can you explain the premises? >> i was by the shouting matches about the middle east. everyone. i decided to get rid of an analyst the but i will to make peace and in the middle east. not right how to do it but it does here. it would be nice to help them without being a side benefit. i was doing it so i could stop hearing about it. >> gregory was a speechwriter for it to is really private ministers and so he does have experience in this he went ahead and wrote a book about how he became a speechwriter which is an unbelievable story. like he knew nothing about it. so in principle about that. >> if you put things out there but the middle east to get bombarded with the males, phone calls people showing up talking about the penalties to some more grounded and others were fringes on the right or left and the irritated me. >> you set out with

this allows the middle east to interact with the rest of the world. this also ends the conceptions about people in the middle east. >> this is a grandiose ambition. this tiny country has a huge sense of itself. >> coming up for you on "the bbc world news," from a right to revolutions, more than two centuries since the storming of the best deal. they are now giving up their secrets. -- two centuries since the storming of the bastille. -- may carry some important lessons for a future queen. >> no one knows better how to combine the elements of being royal than she does. at once so familiar but sometimes rather distance. there are some hints for a perspective granddaughter in launch on joining the ranks of loyalty. first, keep smiling. there were men waving camel sticks and girls tossing their hair. keep a sharp eye on your husband. they had been known to wander off and put their foot on it. the head, keep a tight hold of your hat. the queens was tied on with a gold head scarf. prepare yourself for a lifetime of these, new buildings to be studied intentl

i think to do with the conflicts going on in the middle east the only thing that it does is it adds to the tension on campus he made his entire career is based on was me let me see. we're going to respect i'm an old timer i know how deeply frustrating it can be when you're sitting in the audience and somebody goes on for an hour and a half saying things that you find obviously utterly loathed some repulsive and also you think factually incorrect and. i think i think people should have more than sixty seconds as i said i'll leave it to the patience of the audience when you feel it's going on too long you know how they express your disapproval otherwise they should be allowed to go on. joining your speech you made a lot of references to jewish people as well as certain people in your audience not just people in general but certain people especially in your audience to nazis you know that is extremely offensive when certain people. and they're also extremely offensive to people who actually suffered the nazi world i don't respect that anymore i really don't i don't like and i don't respec

special report about american academic norman a token steen an ardent critic of israeli and us middle east policy he's a man who's turns around reaction strong reactions with some calling him a self hating jew while others see him as a beacon of inspiration stay with us for an up close for trade next year on our city. you know the famous joke a journalist goes around them asks a russian of oh and it's really the same question he first goes to the russian excuse me what's your opinion of the meat shortage the russian says what's in the pinion. the reporter then goes to the poll excuse me what's your opinion of the meat shortage the pogos what meat. you gave goes to the israeli excuse me what's your opinion of the meat shortage is really replies what's excuse me. norman finkelstein speaks for no one but himself and a handful of people who have such hatred for america. famous in the first tragic events should that if a person walked in the streets of london going to treat people he could probably be killed before he met. her through her every single member of my family on both sides was exter

and this is something tony's still working on, obviously, representing the quartet in the middle east. but we've got to paint a picture of what this is like at the end of the road, and they have to know someone will be there to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks. because, believe me, if they made an agreement day around tomorrow, we'd have two or three years that'd be pretty rough sailing, i think. >> yeah. i think one thing that the president was just saying there that was really important is the parties have to want it. i, obviously, reflect a lot about this now being out with the middle east peace process, and last night i was actually in jerusalem. and here's the thing that i think's quite interesting about conflict resolution, and i know this may sound an odd thing to say, but sometimes they want it, but it's not very obvious that they do. and sometimes they believe that they want it but are absolutely certain that the other side doesn't. you know, one of the things that i do constantly now when i'm talking as i was yesterday with prime minister netanyahu in israel and

>> iran has influence in the middle east. i think the danger lies in not really achieving a comprehensive peace. what has israel done with the initiative? leaving this peace talks going like they are going today, we're heading towards disaster. >> this bomb attack in beirut in 2005 forced him into a political career. it killed his father, the former prime minister, along with many others. a special tribunal established by the u.n. has been investigating what happened and it is expected to issue an indictment before the end of the year. >> the leader of hezbollah has reacted furiously to reports that members of his movement which is the most powerful military and political force in lebanon, could be indicted for the killing. all lebanese should cut ties with the tribunal, he said. >> did you give 100% backing? >> yes. >> you're not cutting links with it as hezbollah demanded? >> no. >> it is not dangerous for lebanon or the stability of the country? >> i think much -- more dangerous is not to dialogue about the issues that are

director of the middle east economic and political analysis company thank you. but reports suggest china's top foreign affairs diplomat could be sent to north korea as early as monday all of this as part of attempts to ease tensions on the peninsula beijing wants emergency meeting of the six nations involved in north korea disarmament talks south korea says it's just not interested in formally resuming talks on the subject at this time tensions have been stoked by the u.s. and south korea holding four day joint military exercises in the yellow sea near the disputed maritime border has reportedly put its surface to surface missiles on alert and it comes just days after the north claiming it was provoked fired artillery on an island belonging to the south and that killed four people pepe escobar brazil based correspondent for the asia times says the naval exercise is a deliberate provocation by washington. the way washington has been spinning all this they say look we had these exercises with south korea more or less organized months ago so they were scheduled to

about american partners major partners in most course of the world including central leisure in the middle east russia and europe as well the united nations to some documents suggesting that the united states were planning to spy on some of the united nations top officials including secretary general the spying included listening to their conversations while collecting data of their personal data including on their bank cards and are following them around as well some information on. this incident when a group of american diplomats walked out during the statement of the speech of the president of iran at the united nations general assembly and this until the document suggests that the walk out procedure was one some very humiliating political make claims are also revealed in this document which are used by american diplomats according to wiki leaks in their conversations between each other. the presidential runs for example was called the naked king of the presidents of iran was referred to as simply hitler. the town then between the russian prime minister and the russian president he's a man w

>> it does send a message of what the middle east is going to be. but there are fundamental issues with iran. one is the nuclear program but another is the nature of that regime. the unhappiness many people in iran are showing. >> do you think the sanctions are helping a lot? >> there may be comments from people here, but i have been surprised and pleased with how well the administration did getting the people around the table to impose sanctions. they did better than i expected they would and i expect a lot of other folks. i need to talk to people to get a better feel for it, but the theory of sanctions is you are putting a lot of pressure on business class is that middle- class is to in turn put pressure on their regime. the iranian president and a date regime is putting pressure on the middle-class. that's the center of the opposition and i wonder if we don't have a perverse alliance between our sanctions activity and a regime policy, everybody squeezing the middle-class. so i worry about that. sanctions are right and i worry they are not going t

lebanon's prime minister's praise russia's important role in mediating peace talks in the middle east and promoting stability saad hariri is on a two day official visit to moscow here and caught up with him ahead of his trip you can watch the full interview in an hour from now but in the meantime here is a brief preview. i think russia could play a very important role it has many friends in the arab world we need to use our relations with russia in order to communicate the arab stance on things to the international community because it's very unnerving to see the injustice done by israel to palestinians as well as to lebanon and syria we can no longer ignore this political relations with russia very important to us we would like these relations to be economically beneficial as well and we would also like to find out how russia could assist lebanon and equipping our army and security forces in this respect we're going to propose some ideas for russian friends. investigators say they can prove a russian accountant who died in prison was part of a massive embezzlement scheme so to get ma

america is taking a new approach in its efforts to build peace in the middle east it's offering israel twenty of the most advanced warplanes of a build in exchange once a temporary freeze on building in the occupied palestinian territories washington's put still fighter jets with three billion dollars on the table and a pledge to fight any international resolutions against israel in exchange america wants israel to pause construction in the west bank for three months promises not to request another freeze when that deadline is up on the stand ins are criticizing the plan angry that the proposal will not apply to east jerusalem patricia de janeiro a political families from new york university told me earlier that the u.s. proposal is a poor solution which could undermine any further u.n. discussions. it's not justifiable at all in fact it's astounding that we're even talking about freezing settlements are giving israel more you know more reasons to freeze settlements they should be frozen and we should know that they're committed to this two state solution and this action is not what is

>> it does send a message of what the middle east is going to be. but there are fundamental issues with iran. one is the nuclear program but another is the nature of that regime. the unhappiness many people in iran are showing. >> do you think the sanctions are helping a lot? >> there may be comments from people here, but i have been surprised and pleased with how well the administration did getting the people around the table to impose sanctions. they did better than i expected they would and i expect a lot of other folks. i need to talk to people to get a better feel for it, but the theory of sanctions is you are putting a lot of pressure on business class is that middle- class is to in turn put pressure on their regime. the iranian president and a date regime is putting pressure on the middle-class. that's the center of the opposition and i wonder if we don't have a perverse alliance between our sanctions activity and a regime policy, everybody squeezing the middle-class. so i worry about that. sanctions are right and i worry they are not going t

there is a surprising bid from the middle east. we have a report from qatar. >> qatar is so small, so low in the football rankings, so hot. temperatures here cannot on 50 degrees. this is the answer. banks of solar panels which will help to power fully air- conditioned stadiums. football not just be feasible, it will be carbon neutral. >> we have an abundance of solar energy. we are harvesting that energy and using this sensibly. bring it on. how much energy do you need? >> how much money do you want might be the next question. on this night, qatar puzzlers argentina and brazil to play the game. what this is all about qatar this plane in a big fashion that they are already a player. they will close two of the world's biggest teams and all of their rivals to make this seem routine. the message is that bringing the world cup to the middle east might be novel but this is not unimaginable. these days, this is not just about what you will do during the tournament, they are also about what is left behind. qatar has brought in high-level

so maybe it's also possible in the middle east.maybe the regimes which are really rotten -- and the israeli occupation is rotten really big time as we say in hebrew -- [laughter] maybe such things fall by themselves. the problem is that neither soviet russia nor around the berlin wall there were 500,000 settlers, and this makes it much, much more complicated. but to give you a scenario with seeing the light in front of us which will not be the light of the trail which is coming in front of us is right now almost an impossible job. even the west which let's talk about europe a moment which is more progressive if i can say so, at least the public opinions. look what happens there. the governments are collaborating with the siege on the hamas, the governments are collaborating with the siege on gaza, the boycott on hamas. you know, the west wanted democracy in palestine. israel wanted democracy in palestine. they almost forced those elections on the palestinians. those stupid palestinians didn't understand that democracy means to vote

while the us is desperately trying to revive the stoled of middle east peace talks by enticing israel to extend its construction more moratorium in occupied palestinian territories washington's put twenty stealth fighter jets worth three billion dollars on the table and a pledge to fight any international resolutions against israel in exchange it wants israel to halt construction in the west bank for three months with the u.s. promise not to ask it to prolong it any further palestinians are criticizing the plan saying their proposed freeze will not apply to east jerusalem the recent round of u.s. brokered peace talks became stuck three weeks ago after they began and that was after israel reaffirmed its commitment to continue building settlements in palestinian areas let's not discuss this with eve from the u.s. or council in jerusalem which actually represents the jewish settlements hello to you so the u.s. back talks have stalled now for weeks and now it looks like it's trying washington is trying to buy off israel to get it to make a move we're talking a bribe or e in effect here no

and as we've said, that's when you then had the boundaries of the modern middle east drawn. c-span: in the iraq area, and all those surrounding countries -- how many folks over there are sunnis, and how many are shiites? >> guest: the vast majority are sunni. and the sunnis are the orthodox muslims. there's probably about 10 percent shia -- well, probably not that much in the arab world. overall, about 10 percent of muslims are shia. c-span: so then iraq is unusual? >> guest: very unusual. there is a concentration of arab shia in southern lebanon. there are some settlements of shia on the eastern coast of saudi arabia, in bahrain. all of those countries on the persian gulf have some shia population. but the great shia population is non-arab. and that, of course, is in iran. c-span: so what about the infrastructure of saddam hussein's government; made up of how many sunni versus how many shia -- the leadership, the military? >> guest: well, you know, it's very hard to know what goes on. because, as i say, things are so -- are so tight. but what saddam hussein did after the gu

afghanistan, iran, middle east peace, global economic challenges. this does not help any of those. >> the communiques are particularly harsh about the german foreign minister. western well -- he is more concerned about the political consequences. >> is the national security effected? is the security of our allies affected? >> the staff will examine the extensive documents, as other governments re doing. the publication may have ended the widespread feeling of goodwill towards wikileaks. >> this practice of revealing state secrets is taking on its own life and is just serving public craving for sensationalism. >> above all, the leak of the u.s. data means that politicians the world over are reassessing how will handle secret information in the future. >> will take an in-depth look at this story after the break later in this program. walmart gaddafi has called on the west to provide 5 billion year rose four libyan efforts to combat illegal immigration into europe. he has threatened suspend operations if it is not provided. he made his appeal at the o

that's what my book's basically about, trying to humanize the middle east. not to justify terrorism, but to explain what the context is. >> host: how is it that you hooked up with him in riyadh? >> guest: as usual, these things are quite random. i had a friend who gave me a contact, and at a certain point you're driving out to the outskirts of town, and suddenly someone's introduced. and i was lucky. my colleague, i was with "the wall street journal." just a few months later danny pearl did something that was a little bit more like an ambush but still not much different from that, and poor danny had his head cut off, so i feel very lucky that i got away to sell the story. >> host: and what did you learn from your contact? >> guest: i think i learned that the way, the reason that he wanted to kill me at the site of the interview was that he believed that i wanted to kill him. and that is the key thing. you've got to remember that in most conflicts when you cross, it always feels much more when you receive the prods than when you give it, and i think that's th

it sends a message to iran about -- about what the direction of -- of the middle east peace -- the middle east sgoling to be. but you know this are more -- fundamental issues with iran. one is the nuke here program, one is the nature of the regime. the unhappiness many people within iran are showing with that. >> do you think sanctions are helping a lot? >> you know, it is it is interesting and this may be comments from people here on sanctions. i have been surprised and pleased at how well the administration d-did -- did in materials of getting people around the table. they did better than i expected they would. it was through effort of a lot of folks. ones of the things that occurred to me the other day and i need to talk feem to get a better feel for it, you know, the -- the theory of sanctions is you're putting a lot of pressure particularly on business classes and middle classes to in turn put pressure on the regime. you know, it is interesting, ahmadinejad and the regime is also putting fresh yournt middle class because that of course is the center of the opposition to the regime an

most important in the middle east carter brokered a durable peace agreement between the egyptians and the israelis that lasted over three decades and with no other president has been able to replicate. when push came to shove carter could play politics quite well on foreign policy and domestic policy to build senate support for the ratification of the panama canal treaty in 1978. carter send senators to panama so they could be there by military leaders, local residents and business leaders on the importance of the treaty. he addressed audiences in key states and local communities to build pressure on senators using state of the art town hall meeting technology and remote telephone connections and exploited division among conservatives on this issue. is easy to forget carter scored big victories in his first two years after his first 1 hundred days. he had approval ratings approaching 69%. washington post columnist joseph pratt noted republicans and independents like him as well as the democrats do. the biggest problem for carter is he didn't enjoy being a party leader. this is a major

peace and the middle east is going to be. but there are more fundamental issues with iran. one is the nuclear program, and one is the nature of that regime, the unhappiness many people within iran are showing -- >> do you think sanctions are helping iran? >> it is interesting, and there may be comments from people here. i have been surprised and pleased by how well the administration did in tens of getting people around the table -- did in getting people on the table to support sanctions. one of the things that occurred to me the other day, and i need to talk to people to get a better feel for it, but the theory of sanctions is you are putting a lot of pressure particularly on business classes and middle-class is to in turn put pressure on the regime. but it is not in the machine is also putting pressure on the medical -- but ahmadinejad and the regime is also putting pressure on the middle class. i wonder if we have a perverse alliance between section activities and the regime policy, everybody squeezing the middle-class. i

secretary of state hillary clinton is is launching a diplomatic tour going to the middle east possibly to the far east do you think she will have some questions to answer here. i think there's some embarrassment in in relations people aren't going to be keen in host governments that things they said before in private have become public so yes had to be clinton undoubtedly has a great deal of egg on her face as she travels around the world all right former british diplomat live from london craig mari thank you. and in just a few minutes here on r.t. keeping tensions high some. with regional joint naval exercises with the u.s. it comes only a week after a deadly artillery exchange in the region we talk to experts about reasons for such military escalation also. if you really. are not moving from this area in poverty stricken residents the indian government are gripped in a deadlock keeping plans for airport expansion ground. a senior iranian nuclear scientist has been killed and another one wounded in two separate bomb attacks in tehran wives of the physicists have also been injured the

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