witnesses are reporting confrontations between security forces and protesters in tehran. fierce clashes occurred near tehran university. the police used tear gas to disperse the crowd. the demonstrators are protesting against the alleged imprisonment of two opposition leaders. their current whereabouts are not clear. and i government protests have increased across iran in the past few days. -- anti-government protests have increased across iran in the past few days. now the latest from the biggest technology fair. >> the model is work and life with the clout. storing data and software programs online rather than on this computer hardware. numerous products and services are capturing a visitor interest. some of the products will be in your local shop soon and others will take awhile to get there. >> tablet pc's with touchscreens and computing capacity are the attraction. this is the first one to run on the android operating system. the great hope of the rivals of ipad. 1 million tablet pc's are said to be sold in germany alone. the prospect pleases manufacturers and teleco

the conservative mayor of tehran put the number at 3 million. they were held in the same square during the 1979 revolution. the racket way to prevent clashes. the rally from here is the key point, the rally drew all kind of protestors. old and young, professionals and workers and students, women wearing sunglasses and head scarves as well as those in full length clothing. lines of protesters 5 miles long converged on the square. as well as from the working-class southern once. and just one more on that one more quote on that point and another wonderful essay in the book someone nader mentioned called the green bracelet. she says the following. a simple glance of that crowd of iran's prominent student leaders tells you that by and large they are not the children of the citizens of north tehran. but instead they come from provincial working-class families or they are the children of the rule schoolteachers and clerks. the western media cliche of the opposition limited to the urban upper-class the law is the current reality. the future leaders of i

witnesses are reporting confrontations between security forces and protesters in tehran. fierce clashes occurred near tehran university. the police used tear gas to disperse the crowd. the demonstrators are protesting against the alleged imprisonment of two opposition leaders. their current whereabouts are not clear. and i government protests have increased across iran in the past few days. -- anti-government protests have increased across iran in the past few days. now the latest from the biggest technology fair. >> the model is work and life with the clout. storing data and software programs online rather than on this computer hardware. numerous products and services are capturing a visitor interest. some of the products will be in your local shop soon and others will take awhile to get there. >> tablet pc's with touchscreens and computing capacity are the attraction. this is the first one to run on the android operating system. the great hope of the rivals of ipad. 1 million tablet pc's are said to be sold in germany alone. the prospect pleases manufacturers and teleco

so tehran will certainly get a nuclear weapon, but then what?well, my response will be to ask, so what? iran doesn't have the ability to hit the united states with such a weapon. while we certainly can't incinerate persia. and she is will not supply it the sunni extremes will be more likely to use against iran than against the west. but will they not use it against israel, you ask. and i would say only if iranian leaders are the most stupid men and women all ever created. israel possesses a large multifaceted and wholly accounted, unaccounted for arsenal. and it would surely use it if tehran look like is even remotely thinking about a first strike. indeed iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons still leads at a shia island surrounded by hostile sunnis, u.s. military bases, and u.s. and israeli nuclear target years focused squarely on. in other words, with a without a nuclear weapon, iran is contained. it continue to gavel with violence, but it cannot pose a military threat to the united states. before moving to our so-called saudi friends, let me

we just wouldn't come back. >> brown: and so for now it will continue to push the limits of tehran's tolerance from thousands of miles away. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day. security forces in libya broke up new protests in tripoli and threatened two other cities now in rebel hands. moammar qaddafi insisted the libyan people love him. he told abc news, "they will die to protect me-- all my people." governments in bahrain, oman, and yemen faced new protests and demands for reform. and president obama told u.s. governors that public employees should not be "vilified" in a bid to cut state spending. and to hari sreenivasan, for what's on the newshour online. hari. >> sreenivasan: watch more of jeff's interview with "parazit" hosts kambiz hosseini and saman arbabi on art beat. and on the libya story, our site for students and teachers, newshour extra, has a lesson plan on the role of technology in recent uprisings in africa and the middle east. plus on this week's political checklist, political editor david chalian talks with judy about the ongoing debate in wiscons

the conservative mayor of today on put the number -- tehran put the number at three million. the conservative mayor. reminiscent of the rallies held during the 1979 revolution. as in the 1979, the security forces were kept away to prevent crashes. here's the key point: the rally drew all kinds of protesters; old and young, professionals and workers, students, women wearing sunglasses and head scarves as well as those in full-length garb. lines of protesters five miles long converged o -- on the square. from the better off northern districts as well as from the working class southern ones. and just one more on that, one more quote on that point. in another wonderful essay in the book, an essay called "this magic green bracelet." she says the following: a simple glance at the background of iran's prominent student leaders tells you that by and large they are not the children of the affluent citizens of north tehran but, instead, come from provincial working class families or are the children of rural school teachers and clerks. the western media cliche of an opposition limited

the head of the tehran justice department said it will be held on may 11th and will likely take place blind closed doors. they were detained in northern iraq along the irann border two years ago and charged withes responsible espionage. showered shourd was released on bail and has been back in the bay area and plead not guilty in absentia. >> state department spokesman p.j. crowell lee is out of a job. he said the army's treatment of suspected reeker bradley manning was, quote, ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid. manning is being held in solitary con finalment -- confinement and is stripped naked each night before bed. president obama says the treatment is appropriate. crowelley -- crowell lee has committed his resignation to secretary of state hillary clinton. >> leigh: we're going to take you to the high definition mt. tamalpais camera. the wind is up. this band of very heavy rain making its way through marin county, now just about seven, eight miles off the coast, near san francisco. really picking up in intensity. some very strong southwesterly winds accompanying the cell as

. >> they condemned the illegal protest in tehran. >> they are showed executions of two men who opposedsident ahmadinejad. he is showing us the broadcast and competing coverage from dube ai outside of iran. >> are they able to see the alternate version? >> only on the web. >> in staford, iranian expert and author of the book on the shah, is convinced that the current regime will lose. >> internet and social network and facebook and twitter, with satellite technology all of these have made our world a much smaller place . very inhospitable territory for despotism . those who have a monopoly of truth. >> back with us. professor what are you hearing from the other countryall -- about all of the changes. >> we are all looking at very similar sources now. but what is interesting to me, when i watch satellite tv available to me here in pran fran. i watch arabic tv. it is citizen journalism with the main stream journalism. protests are spreading and that the same narrative that began in tunisia and spread to egypt and going to now in libya and bahrain and oman and possibly take place in saudi

casey still are also in the mix of course retired from last year's will this will be better live from tehran. i see time if the fos this though as he gets used to his music can see the pensive current and former champions getting to grips with the machinery of the next of kin . to conform no one there's been good news for red bowl with the defending drivers' champion sebastian vettel extending his contract the german will not stay until twenty four with the austrian team deal funny ending speculation linking the german with ferrari twenty three year old vettel will earn around eight million per season well as teammate of mark webber has yet to be confirmed beyond twenty eleven the f one season starts on march twenty seventh in. our rough weather is coming up in just a second then kevin's here with all the news at the top of the hour. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms. we've got the future covered. yes my name is daniel schmidt this is julian assange we're here to make a short presentation of all that we can fix project. the first step in the fourth estate

the two men and their families were taken to a prison in tehran according to a reformist website. a semiofficial government news agency denied the report. the two had been under house arrest since february 14th. >>> now to new zealand where officials say as many as 240 people may have died in a massive earthquake a week ago. this morning new zealand marked the time the quake hit with a moment of silence. a national state of emergency remains in effect. the quake may have done as much as $15 billion in damage. >>> in this country, some dangerous midwest weather to tell you about. in ohio, all 88 counties are threatened by flooding. heavy rain and high wind soaked the region. in findlay, the water is expected to be 6 1/2 feet above flood level, but that's not all. a tornado touched down south of columbus. >> my son's here and i had the outside lights on and he said, mom, the bins are gone, the barn's gone, the roof's gone, you know. so, yeah. i knew it was bad then. >> tornadoes also hit kentucky, indiana and illinois. now to washington and efforts to overt a government shutdown. th

more dangerous to try to loose these bugs out of the systems that will screw them up or to allow tehran to get a nuclear weapon. in my opinion, a nuclear-armed iran is the worst threat we face. so i'm fully supportive of things like that. whatever we can do. if it comes down to the use of force, that's a bad thing, but it's better than accepting defeat on this issue. if they can do it through some white hat hackers figuring out some code that messes up the islamic regime in tehran, then more power to 'em. >> thank you. the turmoil seems to be worldwide, not just the middle east. we have north korea, etc., and what sort of responsibility do you put on the current administration for the world seeming to be in an upheaval? >> oh. um, i don't know if i could blame the current add manager for everything that's going on. the current administration for everything that's going on. of course, some of the current administration want to take credit for it, they somehow have inspired people for hope and change in the middle east, something like that. we'll see that the outcome is of all of this. if

secretary of state has made a new appeal to tehran for help in the matter but iran has repeatedly denied any knowledge of what happened there. nasa's attempt to launch a rocket carrying its latest earth observation satellite has ended in failure setting off from california the glory satellite met trouble six minutes in when a technical error resulted in the rocket slowing unable to reach orbit it's likely to have crashed into the ocean near the antarctic at a cost of four hundred thirty million dollars the satellites purpose was to gather new data on factors affecting the earth's climate three. meanwhile cosmonauts in russia are hoping to be cleared for an orbital mission to the international space station international a crew of the main and backup flights are undergoing final exams at russia's star city. has more from the training center. examinations will take place over the next two days of the team will have to pick out a special examination ticket in x. out according to the instructions in the ticket and they will be graded not just on their performance in usual circumstances but a

hussein his mehdi karoubi have reportedly been arrested by security forces and taken to a jail in tehran it comes ahead of protests called for by the opposition urging demonstrators to all of the uprisings in egypt and tunisia earlier this month the two men and their wives were under house arrest after staging protests to work killed in the clashes with police while many more were detained. walks across new zealand were flying at half mast as the nation held a two minute memorial silence one week after the massive earthquake hit christchurch and their death toll is currently at one hundred fifty four but authorities warn with dozens still missing it's likely to be much higher rescue work is ongoing but frequent aftershocks are hampering efforts and the cost of rebuilding the city is estimated at fifteen billion u.s. dollars. now scientists could soon be able to predict out to ten days ahead of where and where an earthquake could strike well that's the extra work by a russian british joint project and already has been speaking to one of the experts involved will be for interviews coming u

in italy because the nato planes would basically coming from french and italian bases and of it in tehran which saw all sorts of any kind of consequences are at play and this could get really really messy and this is something that the u.n. and nato to moral i'm not sure they are revealed for all these unintended consequences and we will of course keep our eyes on this as you say this goal of fire had to ask a marginalist and asia times correspondent. gaijin. i want to turn now to another crisis an unprecedented disaster i'm talking of course about the situation in japan at the fukushima daiichi plant so dangerous in fact that our team has actually had to pull its crews out of the area while workers at the power plant and japanese authorities rush against the clock there's another agency that seems to be moving at a snail's pace and talking about the i.a.e.a. international atomic energy agency responsible for keeping tabs on all cases of peaceful use of nuclear power are g.'s arena reports on its role in the crisis which appears now to be pretty minor. i mean support radius levels in the

pretty thick comments when he's on the radio and we already showed you his obama grew up in tehran earlier this week but his latest target wasn't president obama nancy pelosi or harry reid no this time he has issues with actress natalie portman portman there's no hard talk about her winning an oscar last sunday night and being pregnant and unwed doing it. since troubling people see a natalie portman or some other hollywood starlet who broke posters you know were having children were not married but we're having these children are doing just fine but there aren't really a lot single moms out there who are making millions of dollars of your movie and i think you can see distorted image you know it's not everybody. caretakers and nurses most single moms are very poor undereducated can't reach out and if it weren't for government assistance tributes would be starting to help here and the story that we're not seeing and it's unfortunate that we war are and why arise. out of children wedlock. where do we even begin here my first of all i'm pretty damn sure the natalie portman could care less wha

wide rust with tens of thousands marching and fitters across the country and in the rest of city of tehran crowds have been demanding that president bashar last that steps down a ruling baath party headquarters was torched in the southern city of to foss at least twenty three protesters were killed in the city of cheering of violent crackdown on friday. seven civilians including three children have been killed in another nato as strike in southern afghanistan five others were injured across the spectrum of carrying a taliban leader along with other militants will start it it but. next to another vehicle carrying the civilians going to fish oils wouldn't save three insurgents were killed. nine children were killed by nato forces during an air strike sparking a furious reaction from president curbside foreign forces should leave his country . and the number of people killed by a strong earthquake in myanmar has increased to seventy five with more than one hundred injured relief operations are underway after hundreds of houses buddhist monasteries and government buildings were destroyed by th

another due to take off from the country therese on monday and as election year is escapades next for tehran is no stranger to bailing with the nuclear threat facing japan having first hand experience of the world's worst atomic disaster during the soviet era. spare no effort in getting the job done this typical motto for construction projects in the soviet union also applied to the chernobyl nuclear power plant when construction kicked off in the nine hundred seventy s. it was intended to be a dream project for soviet ukraine. the birthrate in prepared was higher than all of ukraine people were given homes and there was a great demand for a work force and you're not so everyone worked and waited. but this happy existence came to an abrupt and on april the twenty six nineteen eighty six with the explosion of the reactor at the power station the very same motto use for building the brands they are no effort was known to be used in the clear up of the world's worst every man made nuclear disasters but blazing reactor was bombarded with sand and led measures which at first seemed very driven wh

if you want to fly from islamabad to new delhi, you can't get there, you got to go to mumbai, tehran, there are almost no direct flights between the two countries. there's less than 1% of the gdp is engaged in trade. that is not normal. this is not natural. engages change in south asia is the big idea that the united states should support. >> could you please comment on pakistan's dilemma in trying to prevent the forces crossing their borders into afghanistan that continues as such a concern to our forces, knowing that the enemy seems to be escaping into pakistan so frequently? >> the forces we are fighting in afghanistan are primarily the afghan taliban, in several different flavors. the pakistani government in the 1990s did not create the afghan taliban. but they were the midwife. the pakistani army believes to this day that the afghan taliban is an asset for them. that sooner or later, the americans are going to leave afghanistan. and there will be a struggle for influence there and their biggest asset is the afghan taliban. up until a year or so ago, they believe victory was in si

you have to go to dubai, katmandu, a tehran, there is almost no direct flights less than 1% of the gdp engaged in trade. this is not normal or natural. encouraging change in south asia is big. >> could you please comment on the pakistan dilemma in trying to prevent the forces crossing their borders into afghanistan that continues as such a concern knowing the enemy seems to be escaping into pakistan so frequently? >> the forces we're fighting in afghanistan are primarily the afghan taliban. the pakistani government in the '90s did not create it but was the midwife. the pakistani army believes to this day that the afghan taliban is an asset to. sooner or later the americans will leave and there will be a struggle for influence and the biggest asset is the afghan taliban. up until one year ago they believed victory was in sight for they were going to win and we would pull out. said over the course over the last decade, the pakistani taliban i'm sorry the afghan taliban has given birth to the pakistani taliban. which targets the government of pakistan so the pakistani military has an extr

nobody is asking for the 10th division to walk through tehran or the streets of tripoli. president of the united states absolutely in this case should have come out with a much more morally clarifying statement and much earlier than he has. and as for the 6,000 americans, what he ended up doing was treating them as if they were already hostages, by backing of off and not doing anything immediately. remember, president reagan called give the mad dog of the middle east. compared to this, president obama is the chihuahua of the west. where is the leadership? >> you think that president speech was measured and appropriate? >> i think the president's speech was measured, appropriate. i agree with both pat and eleanor. i think this might be a first, that totally the president has gotten it right. but i also think that the united states and president obama is mindful of this, cannot go into this alone. one, the united states doesn't have the same length in libya as it did in egypt. and also, again, as pat said, this is a european affair. if anything is going to be done, it's goi

i mean i was in tehran at the time. but plain fact of the matter is that after the suspension of the sanctions in 1999, negotiating with the libyan government for oil concessions was legal and it was in the interest of europe to do that. and that's why everybody did it. while also the united states did it. and the way libya and other countries work whether there's a heavy political element to trading is that on the biggest issues, the heads of government need to get involved. now it's entirely free to all of us to go to our members of parliament and say we don't like life if that's what life requires. so please stop it. don't, david cameron, go around the world with businessmen in training. that's not your job as our representative. if that's how you believe, you've got to use your own democratic system to establish that. >> thank you. i'm going to try to get a few more questions. then i think you had a couple of questions here at front. and yes. we'll take your question there. and then can we get the other microphone t

they did in tehran and cairo and doing so now in the desert of libya and it would be crushing to them, unfair to them but also against our larger sense of our historical role if we were not very quickly forthcoming with unequivocal practical and unambiguous support. >>i agree with leon. jessica's right to focus on the narrative but we have a chance to change the narrative fundamentally. the narrative in the middle east for decades has been against the united states even governments friendly to us whipping up popular support against us in terms of our support for israel. it's been constantly deflected from the real issues of decent governments that proside for their citizens. now we suddenly is a narrative that isn't indigenous narrative led by young people saying it is time to claim our right to join the rest of the world and get decent governments and we the united states have been talking about that for decades and not just before this administration. president obama went to ch cair called for a new beginning of the muslim world and part of that was democracy. secretary clinton talk

was facebook, cameras touching the demonstrators, people being beaten and killed on the streets of tehran. some of the organizers of the demonstrations in tunisia and egypt said that they communicated through facebook with the iranians and learn techniques on how to organize facebook pages and so on to get some of these intifadas started. i had not thought about the realignment in the arab league. it will be interesting to see. this has not been a strong organization for years. it has been a joke. if it has stronger democratic governments, it could mean a more vigorous air bleed. i was surprised that they all agreed on this in libya. that was something. you might not have seen that in the past. in terms of relationships with iran, some people are very worried about egypt. that is possible. egypt let two iranian ships go through the suez canal for the first time. some worry about more smuggling of weapons and the gossip. these are legitimate concerns. and yet we had the saudi intervention in bahrain, said there is no right or wrong influence across the persian gulf. the u.s. is not retreat

iraqi politics is muqtada sadr, the greatest enemy the united states has, who until recently lived in tehran. brian: if somebody wants to read stuff you have written where is the easiest place to go besides these books, the "the godfather doctrine -- a foreign policy parable" and "to begin the world over again"? >> i write regularly for the >> i write regularly for the spectator in london. to for a journal in italy and if anybody bothers writing to me at these things, i write back to everyone who does write to me, which is an onerous but useful task. brian: today we find john c. hulsman in bave aria, soon to be married and has been my guest for the last hour. thank you for joining us. it's my great pleasure. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] . >> for tree transcripts or to give us your comments, visit us on line. tonight on prime minister's questions, british prime minister david cameron talks about the u.k. response to the situation in lickia. then on road to the white house, representative michel balk maup speak

. >> he was born in tehran in 1919 to a colonel in the kosak brigade of rather modest means, within two years his father becomes the power behind the thrown in' 21, he organizes a coup with somebody else. by the time he's seven he's called the crown prince. he is taken away from his mother and put into a palace surrounded by men. he had been surrounded by women until then and given military education. then he's sent to switzerland for some years of training. he comes back withoutinishing high school and then when he's only 21 his father is forced off the throne by the british and the soviets because they suspect him of having nazi sympathy and he becomes a reluctant monarch al at the tenter age of 21 and then begins a political democratic from 1941 to 1951. and oil is the dominant issue. mossad wants to nationalize. the americans keep telling the british behind the scenes that they should give in a little bit because this wave is coming. but the british were intransgent they weren't willing to compromise. so that nationalized the oil and the british immediately decided they want to over

and here to this day on the palace of justice in tehran there is a sculpture of has rah, the just who was the king in iran in the period when this academy was the world center of knowledge. so people were coming from india, from greece, there were christians there and jews and persians all sharing knowledge about the world and sharing, in particular, knowledge of sugar. sugar was also considered a medicine. they actually gave sugar to people to try to heal some of their ills, although they noticed that it wasn't too good for your teeth. the key next step comes this 600s and 700s a.d.. can anyone remember what, the huge change in the spread of knowledge, the spread of information that came in the 600s and 700s a.d.? the big -- the new religion that was spreading all over the world. >> christians. >> no, we had the christians already. yes, sir, in the back row. >> hinduism? >> no, hinduism existed already. >> islamsome. >> islam! islam comes to the fore in the 600s, and as the -- as islam spreads across iran and spreads down -- crash -- into china, into russia, into central asia, into t

and in iran, witnesses said police used tear gas and batons to disperse crowds of protesters in tehran. they were demanding the release of two opposition leaders. activists have reported mir hossein mousavi and mahdi karroubi were jailed in recent days. the unrest in iran and the rest of the middle east pushed the price of oil back up today. it gained more than $2 in new york trading to settle above $99 a barrel. at a u.s. senate hearing, federal reserve chairman ben bernanke said the resulting spike in gas prices has not damaged the economy. >> higher gas prices take income out of the pockets of consumers and reduces their spending and their confidence and so it can also be a problem for recovery. so we have to look at it from both perspectives. my sense is that the increases that we've seen so far are obviously a problem for a lot of people do not yet pose a significant risk either to the recovery or to the maintenance of overall stable inflation. >> sreenivasan: bernanke did suggest the recovery would be hurt if prices stay high over the long term, and that assessment sent wall stre

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i'm in a car on the way to the airport to fly to tehran to do an interview with ahmadinejad, the president. holbrook is on his way to see you. >> yeah. >> rose: at the same time. we have a conversation. i think he mentioned it to you he talked to me. and then-- is coming from france and we're all on the phone. >> he was in libya. >> rose: yes. >> indeed. >> rose: so my point is, what kind of advice were you getting, first of all, what was richard there for, just for support. he didn't have a government position at that time. >> no. but he had predicted that war. actually he wrote an article in "the washington post" where he said anwar would erupt. and he, you know, unless the effort was done by the western powerses to really stop it and there was some effort done but it wasn't enough, obviously. but he was there, actually. >> rose: he was there for moral support for you. >> it was very important. because this is exactly the point that i am trying to say, richard holbrook didn't bring any weapons or tanks. he certainly had no power to declare no flags. we were being bombed by 200 places wit

and the extent to which they are working with the supreme guide of the muslim brother hood was in tehranst week saying that wheaments to see is a -- whapts to see is a comb ainie type regime. that's combactly what the brotherhood has in mind. >> our 15 minutes with our guest, vancouver, canada. caller: you sound almost like a fan. i have a question. i want to give you a -- on libya. i travel to africa in that region. the case of gadhafi has killed over 500,000 littleion people. he is killing the libions. two facts. sanctions and no fly zone are worthless. they will not work. here is why. during the years, he set up banks and offices almost like another country, almost another libya in malta and southern france. so -- and italy. so sanctions and or no fly zone are worth less. but also tell you as i am expertise in some, in these five hours, his five hours daily speech, he mentions two things which is very scary. i he said he will flood europe if they take him out. if he dies, he will flood europe with black african. look it up. so the other thing, he will be settling scores. this is one m

here you see one of them and ended up running aground in tehran.e to people who say they had to rescue their friend who was trapped inside about. >> we came over by about, we get close enough to read that we could see that is was still tied but the vote was close. >> we couldn't get up, so i ran about a grant, i put my wet suit on and i swam over. we have a couple of times there was their response. >> the masthead broken and that was blocking access. we get the boat and that, we went in, the was still in there all live in kicking the was distracted in. >> he was out of it, i think he was in shock. he did not want to move. he did not want move about. >> egad open them, call them up, put a man is own boat. >> he is one of coffee, he didn't want to go to moscow. >> darya: because debt has put booms around to keep it from leaking into the bay. both runners have been notified. --boat owners have been notified. >> mark: ssi testified yesterday that he never thought twice about caring and is planned to kill three of his former teachers. he was tricked int

in tehran, security forces have beaten, detained, and in several recent cases killed peaceful protesters even as iran's president has made a show of denouncing the violence in libya. iranian authorities have targeted human rights defenders and political activists, ex- government officials and their families, clerics and their children, student leaders and their professors, as well as journalists and bloggers. last week, the united states imposed new sanctions on iranian officials for serious human rights abuses. here at the human rights council, we are proud to be working with sweden and other partners to establish a special rapporteur on iran. its mandate would be to investigate and report on abuses in iran, and to speak out when the government there does not meet its human rights obligations. iranian human rights advocates have demanded this step to raise international pressure on their government. this will be a seminal moment for this council, and a test of our ability to work together to advance the goals that it represents. indeed, every member of this council should ask him or her

i mean i was in tehran at the time. but plain fact of the matter is that after the suspension of the sanctions in 1999, negotiating with the libyan government for oil concessions was legal and it was in the interest of europe to do that. and that's why everybody did it. while also the united states did it. and the way libya and other countries work whether there's a heavy political element to trading is that on the biggest issues, the heads of government need to get involved. now it's entirely free to all of us to go to our members of parliament and say we don't like life if that's what life requires. so please stop it. don't, david cameron, go around the world with businessmen in training. that's not your job as our representative. if that's how you believe, you've got to use your own democratic system to establish that. >> thank you. i'm going to try to get a few more questions. then i think you had a couple of questions here at front. and yes. we'll take your question there. and then can we get the other microphone t

in tehran, security forces have beaten, detained and in several recent cases, killed peaceful protestors even as iran's president has made a show of denouncing the violence in libya. iranian authorities have targeted human rights defenders and political activists, ex-government officials and their families, clerics and their children, student leaders and professors as well as journalists and bloggers. last week, the united states imposed new sanctions on iranian officials for serious human rights abuses. here at the human rights council, we are working with sweden and other partners to establish a special counsel on iran. its mandate would be to investigate and report on abuses in iran and speak out when the government does not meet its human rights obligations. rights' advocates have demanded this step to raise international pressure on their government. this will be a see himinal moment for this council and a test of our ability to work together to advance the goals that it represents. indeed, every member of this council should ask him or herself a simple question, why do people have

i mean i was in tehran at the time. but plain fact of the matter is that after the suspension of the sanctions in 1999, negotiating with the libyan government for oil concessions was legal and it was in the interest of europe to do that. and that's why everybody did it. while also the united states did it. and the way libya and other countries work whether there's a heavy political element to trading is that on the biggest issues, the heads of government need to get involved. now it's entirely free to all of us to go to our members of parliament and say we don't like life if that's what life requires. so please stop it. don't, david cameron, go around the world with businessmen in training. that's not your job as our representative. if that's how you believe, you've got to use your own democratic system to establish that. >> thank you. i'm going to try to get a few more questions. then i think you had a couple of questions here at front. and yes. we'll take your question there. and then can we get the other microphone t