well with the. technology innovation and all the developments around russia we've. covered. thanks for staying with us here on r t eighteen minutes past the hour in moscow iran dismisses fresh u.s. sanctions calling them part of a psychological war monday president obama ordered new penalties that involve freezing assets linked to the iranian government and halting transaction with the country's central bank tehran claims its economy won't be harmed by sanctions but some experts say measures are really in place to meet more domestic objectives. in

terms of threats coming from the u.s. mission at this distance is sanctions against iran central bank i think that they're mostly. directed. at the mystic consumption in the united states as we get closer to the presidential elections in the u.s. we see that each side trying to see. as being tough interviews of iran and this is another move by president obama to satisfy. is rivals or supporters of his campaign is sad to see that the u.s. is undermining the. fantastic work that is doing with iran and iran itself is trying very hard to keep the environment. in the face of the recent assassination of the reigning scientists this really was a big blow to the relationship between iran and the. stay with us here on our team coming your way in about ten minutes we'll hear from

a former israeli ambassador about the growing tensions over iran here's a preview. it's very obvious that. position it's a regional power. primarily be fancy response to. you run to pick so i. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe the president of the dives mohamed nasheed has resigned amid a police mutiny after weeks of popular protests the crisis drew to a head when authorities offered security officers to remove the barriers between the government and opposition supporters protesting close to each other the leader had earlier come under fire for arresting the chief judge of the criminal court accusing him of being loyal to the country's former president nasheed swept to power in two thousand and eight. to the island nation.

factory in eastern pakistan has collapsed after gas cylinders exploded in the building rescue workers are struggling to reach dozens of people trapped under debris a day after the incident the number of dead currently stands at eighteen though there are reports that rescuers have already pulled several survivors from the rubble of the already say the factory was built illegally and shut down three times but each time unlawfully reopen. british authorities are working to deport the radical islamists preacher tato who was once dubbed osama bin laden's a bastard to europe this a day after a u.k. tribunal ruled the cleric should be released on bail after more than six years in custody last month the european court of human rights blocked his deportation to jordan where he faces terror charges. and now to end it on a lighter or maybe brighter note hoa's remember keep your eyes on the road at all times a quiet night in russia's st petersburg brought this. interrupted

by a blinding explosion of light the impressive display of pyrotechnics was in fact just a circuit overloaded an electrical substation no one was helped though the drivers involved probably won't forget that particular drive to work for a while. and a wrap up of our headlines is only a couple minutes away but first the business news with daniel stay with us. talking to business in a surprising move for the russian stock market. compensate minority shareholders for losses on their investment for mr putin says the bank will use its own profits to buy back shares from people who took part in its i.p.o. five years ago called price of each of the shares is roughly half of its initial listing the plans estimated to cost up to half a billion dollars while investors await the details to be reviewed richard

haynesworth from rating agency restricting says there could be a more efficient way to solve this problem. if the shareholder is unhappy with the performance of the manager of his company you fire the manager of the company and bring in new ones the share price has gone down the shareholders do not like what's happening and therefore that they have been selling out the government doesn't like the effect that's had on minority shareholders so as a majority shareholder the government should really sack the management of the tb and put new managers who will increase the share price mobile phone retail is among the sectors that continue to show double digit growth in most of the markets russia second largest solicitors noyo says it's last year's revenues rose by a quarter company c.e.o. dennis looked course he outlines what gadgets will be driving the growth this year

. well markets usually grow between ten and twelve percent i think next year will probably be towards the lower end of that spectrum mind your standing is that about thirty million dollars maybe thirty nine members were sold in russia this year but sixty four percent of the overall revenue coming from mobile phone segment is actually coming from smartphone sales and that will increase dramatically was a hundred percent increase in mobile phones there were smartphones in two thousand and seven you would leave there still significant growth russian energy market could soon see a new state owned player the government setting up an oil and gas service holding cording to commerce and daily ventures plan to consolidate state resources based on the country's oil major rules next or energy as it manager rules nifty gas from should improve state competitiveness in the country's energy service markets which is forty percent owned by foreign companies. let's take a look at the markets russia has closed mixed with the all tears recouping early

morning losses and the moist six struggling to head north for a second day so move us on the most six on tuesday flagship korea aeroflot finished lower traders had already priced in the announcement the passenger growth group a quarter last year the best results of any russian airline p.t. boat was also down as investors await the details of its recently announced by back and precious metals producer polish gold extended losses investors were cashing remarkable forty percent gains in the last few days or rumors of a merger with rival poly metal other metal stocks are also fairing badly peter weston explains we had some more of news out of china. and their faith made a projection that should china there could be a slowdown in china's economy down to about four percent from the current eight plus percent if europe sort of gets worse and that has really hit commodity prices when we see the metals companies in particular being hard hit today that's the business news do stay with r.t.

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eight thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines we're following breaking news syria's opposition signals it welcomes russia's mediating efforts in trying to bring them and the government to the negotiating table this after president assad assured russia's foreign minister of his readiness to talk to all political sides and promised a new constitution will soon be put to a vote. the greeks are back on the streets of athens protesting against massive new job cuts demonstrators clashed with police who used tear gas to break up the crowds this is the country's coalition government struggles to agree on more austerity

measures to appease creditors and secure vital second bailout. and iran slams new u.s. sanctions targeting to iran's nuclear program calling them part of a psychological war president barack obama earlier ordered fresh penalties including freezing iranian assets and stopping all transactions with the country's central bank. artie's interview coming up next we sit down with ilan barak to discuss the tensions between israel and iran stay with us. who recently resigned from the government on grounds of principle he said he could no longer serve in a government whose policies he did not agree with ambassador thank you very much for joining us here in our team who resigned after more than thirty years of service was the final straw when. invited.

to greet the stuff of the foreign minister and ministry of foreign affairs and the bad news for him was who. desires peace needs to be careful rule. and i thought that was very telling. of the psyche that. exists behind his political weight and i thought i could not. minister with this kind of statement is it a statement supported by the majority of israelis i think we israelis yes we. we grew up. we need to be on alert. to any more most israelis live a life that is quite bad and you can cut it out of the

environment and planted in the u.s. and europe western europe and you will find the israelis quite. easily integrating into society into requirements in place and so on so it's not. the richie minton society of my childhood. all the time it's at any given point in time but it is true that israelis are not naive and they believe that we can survive here in the middle east. only if we are ready to fight when you are resigned you seem to message to all the staff of the foreign ministry explaining the resignation what was thinking and what is the general mood like among israeli public servants concerning the policies that will have to differ and i have no illusions some of us were frustrated by my letter. because it is outside of the code of conduct that you just drop out

because you don't like the message the messenger has no view over the message that is because of conduct and it's quite legitimate to think in that way how many messengers agree with the message and how many don't in the foreign ministry in my view. large majority don't care there are professionals and whatever message comes for them to deliver they will do. there is. a solid minority ministry that is politically motivated to promote. an israel. and in its. rather. hawkish. position government. is is pursuing. i think we do also have the lefties left overs from the

past. but i think the minority don't last overseas posting was as ambassador to south africa what did you experience in south africa teaching as far as the situation in israel is concerned. i think that israel is. in a danger zone to slide by default. into a manifestation of a. if we don't take care. and i'm afraid we don't take care and there's going to contained in the united states as far as israeli policies on iran and palestine how deep is the west between the united states and israel or is it merely a lovers' quarrel i'm surprised to realize how deep the american care for israel is when it comes to the conversation the political conversation in the us.

i also can see how. the aftermath of the war in iraq and enough guns. and the american fatigue of the middle east. could work badly for the image is present. in the political discourse in the us and in the context of american interests god forbid that the u.s. will be more reluctant. to reach out for israel because our predicament now is as a result of a policy pursued by this part of the government in a way that i think is tragically wrong. that we lean to the american congress a single source of strength in our diplomatic fabric and that is.

very dangerous following on from what to saying israel has become increasingly isolated on the international stage what should those countries first steps be to bring it out of the self isolation in my view this government. very explicitly. made a statement. to the effect that. stepped out. intentionally. of the paradigm of land for peace end of occupation the key to. a settlement in the middle east. and into a new paradigm. that stipulates. ownership of. exclusive ownership of. the entirety of the land of israel which comprises in the eyes of palestinians palestine. is

a dead end i think it is immoral morally and practically it's not sustainable and that is the reason why i left government i thought i could not that kind of off message. the united nations has called on israel to end its occupation of palestine morning leave it to another israeli palestinian conflict that is the israeli government is willing to listen. on the west bank and the gaza strip. and. things are changing fast on the ground in favor of entrenching israeli presence. in palestinian areas i don't think really jerusalem pays much attention too much attention to what the secretary general of the u.n. is saying karen is over my own in the region considering that in the aftermath of

the arab spring the middle east has become more radicalized i don't think israel is looking for allies i think israel is looking for. partners. of convenience. one is jordan. who. we know is the kingdom. so we entertain. a lot of common interests egypt is. consumed by its own revolution and as long as it doesn't pose a threat to us i think israel is taking a very careful distance and turkey. a catastrophic foreign policy towards one of the emerging powers in the mediterranean as far as syria goes what is the best outcome for israel and why does the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu want every single change in syria if that would mean

could mean another islamic state on the border i don't think israel. a have an impact on the outcome of any regime change that is underway anyway. so to ignore the fact that there is a regime change in the making in syria would be. unacceptable but at the same time we need to be very careful not to expedite it is there any way that could support an arabic militarization of syria that qatar has called for and what would such an invasion mean for the region i can hardly see the arab. region. one force that is prepared to walk into syria physically and intervene that i don't see it happening how much of a threat isn't round to regional security it is very obvious that iran is pursuing

a position as a regional power. to serve interests that go beyond immediate borders of iran it is primarily defensive primarily its response to. iran to protect itself that is one level the other domestic political discourse in israel the right wing always. profited from. public move on you defense issues and i think a lot. a lot of what is wrong. and i'm. very angry about this i think it should be stopped at once do you think you attack israel i don't think you could attack iran i don't know but common sense.

is critically dependent on international legitimacy. respond response. on iran. and i think. any course. gives.

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comes and feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the dot com. breaking news this hour syria's opposition signals it welcomes russia's mediating efforts to try bring them in the government to the negotiating table this after president assad assured russia's foreign minister of readiness to. talked to all political sides and promised a new constitution will soon go to a vote. greeks back on the streets of athens protesting against massive new job cuts demonstrators clashed with police we used tear gas to disperse the crowds this is the country's coalition government struggles to agree on more austerity measures to appease easy to creditors and get second bailout cash. and iran slamming new u.s. sanctions targeting terrans controversial nuclear program calling them part of psychological

warfare barack obama earlier ordered fresh penalties including freezing iranian assets and stopping transactions with the country's central bank. next with the sports news stay with us. hello welcome to the cheers a big sports round up and here the top story is one man and his country jumper terry wants to carry on playing for england despite being stripped of his captain's armband by the f.a. . while simply the best tennis star and i joke of it is named the laureus sportsman of the year or barcelona get the team award. out testing times williams become the last four we don't want to team to wield a new car out of the garridge a pre-season preparations get underway in spain. first for paul and john terry will not retire from international football despite losing the england captaincy as according to reports the football association stripped the chelsea center half of

the armband on friday so if you want a year old is due to stand trial in july after allegations he racially abused q.p.r. defender anton ferdinand it's the second time terry has lost the captaincy following allegations in twenty ten of an affair with an england team mates ex-girlfriend terry gave everything as he continued playing for his country well meanwhile the football manager kenny dalglish has again vented his anger over the eight game ban given to luis suarez the striker returned to the side for monday night's goal a store with tottenham after being found guilty of making racist remarks to manchester united's patrice evra we are going to start received rapturous applause from the alan field faithful when he came on as a substitute but don't count after sixty six minutes but he couldn't break the deadlock as both sides missed chances. to use it when the boy thing is going to do something. with a way to get i'm bored.