your weapons program there is only evidence that iran has a nuclear energy program which of iran's says it does there is no evidence that iran is violating the nuclear nonproliferation treaty all of these facts are in contrast with israel and the united states by the way which if these were justifications for war there would be justification for war against us but of course they are not and this crazy media madness leads us down this same path where we all begin to assume that if iran does have a nuclear weapons program then we need to nuke it and nobody can prove it doesn't the president himself claims not to want war with iran but suggests that it's up to iran to cease its probably not existant nuclear weapons program or the blame is on iran and we should have a war whereas of course there is no such thing as a justification for a war based on what weapons a country has. eighteen minutes past the hour and here's a look at what else is making news around the world. a thirty three year rule over

yemen will come to an end this week as voters elect a new president but salles current vice president is the only choice on the ballot paper the single candidate election was a conditional a power transition deal signed by saleh last november after ten months of protests and pressure calling for israel resignation the vote makes yemen the first arab country where uprising led to a negotiated settlement. the former international monetary fund chief dominique strauss call him is being investigated again this time for his alleged role in a suspected hotel prostitution ring in france and belgium investigators are working to determine if the prostitutes were pave using corporate funds from a large french construction company strauss kahn was charged by new york police last may with sexually assaulting a hotel maid those charges have since been dropped. no reports of an alleged

burning of the muslim holy book the koran have led to the u.s. commander of nato troops in afghanistan issuing an apology the allegations have sparked a large protest outside the u.s. controlled bob graham air base and a statement general john allen called for a full investigation to determine if a large number of religious scripts were properly disposed of in april last year at least one person was killed and eighteen injured during protests over the returning of a moron in the u.s. during the night despite a grim outlook for some there are still even members waiting for a euro ticket lot via is planning to join the monetary union by two thousand and fourteen but as artie's aleksey at a shift reports many in the country think membership will only bring more pain for an already struggling economy. as the eurozone continues to combat the painful debt crisis witnessing bloodshed on its streets and the euro sees less support across the continent. this project is doomed to failure it was always tuned to failure

some of the more recent even members are still keen to make a leap of faith while poland recently rejected the idea of having the euro by twenty fourteen the latvian government still firmly believes that the single currency will make its problems go away the lepi is very. strong intention to adopt the euro in twenty forty. through the past being consistent with. any other country of concern. they want to see good solutions to that but at the same time still using its time now. for your adoption and the problems are massive to say the least lot of air has only just now started to recuperate from the recession which made it one of the most economically affected e.u. countries it still has the highest poverty risk rate in europe alarming

unemployment and a vast gap between rich and the poor one of the country's leading euro skeptics says joining the euro zone by twenty fourteen would be nothing short of economic suicide for riga. latvia will then have to participate in the bailout fund and that's a four billion euro contribution with their g.d.p. at only fourteen billion i think it's like we're being invaded on the titanic the ship is sinking and we're being asked to be laid all the water. no doubt lot of it will also be looking at the experience of their baltic neighbor in two thousand and nine is still only a past austerity measures to meet eurozone accession criteria in twenty eleven it converted to the euro but now the country's chancellor of justice reports of lower wages and poor social welfare not to mention sixty thousand children living below the poverty line plus continuing emigration. something this father to

a big family fears will also happen in lot. i'm a father of four and we're expecting a fifth child soon and when you call me a madman because of that it's already almost impossible to get a new financial aid from our government for a large family like mine but if they play to your game then we'll be doomed completely economists say that latvia can meet the euro adoption criteria what worries them is whether riga would be able to afford it especially with the alarming number of those fleeing lot here hundreds of thousands have already left the country in the wake of the recession experts are already speculating on the worst case scenario a larger issue to join the euro zone a violent greek like outcome is not ruled out but a mass exodus is the most likely case let's see russia reporting from latvia now business is next with marina.

hello and welcome to business here on ars russian companies across a number of sectors are becoming secondary victims of the sanctions against iran the united states has tighter restrictions on their on the and banking system and now also railways warns its infrastructure projects in the country are under threat and it's a situation the boss of the company says is simply unfair everything should be clear and transparent. and if the sanctions of the united nations. do not include sanctions against the normal economical corporation but you are fools why only one country. the ride to can see there that the sunshine should be imposed on different base of different countries just because they are keeping. you know a credit credit history incorporating with particular

a particular organization in that country in order to construct railways. main competitor to russian gas pipeline projects in europe than the blue go rounds could be downsized the wall street journal science sources close to the consortium behind the project as saying the group is considering cutting capacity and like the worker has long been europe's preferred alternative to the russian rounds as it seeks to diversify supplies the pipeline is expected to deliver gas from central asia but experts have questioned the region's ability to provide enough gas to make it worthwhile. european finance ministers have agreed on a new bailout deal for greece the hundred thirty billion euro rescue package should help cut the countries that one hundred twenty one percent of gross domestic product in about eight years however they agree with the has been overshadowed by a report from the e.c. b. the i.m.f.

and the european commission more than the greek deficit could be as high as one hundred sixty percent by twenty twenty now let's take a look at the leaders and numbers we'll start with crude which is still trading near the highest level in eight months that's after iran halted oil sales to british and french companies so that we could see honest traded close to one hundred five dollars a barrel while the brant land is still just under one hundred twenty dollars per barrel. let's take a look at the markets now in the u.s. they are closed for presidents they meanwhile in europe it's still a sea of red and that's as the french finance minister says all the elements are in place for greece to get its next bailout along with both the votes and the dikes are losing around boy it's really percent this hour. here in russia the markets are also in negative territory both the r.t.s. and the my sites are losing a round of want her science and a second look at some individual share moves on the mice x. and if you majors are the ones doing better than the market on stronger crude

prices of course gas from a shadow over half a percent call is dropping points eight percent i'm back. are among the top losers and it's a big bank is dropping more than one percent that's our. second look at the currency the euro is fighting for that's against it all over the ports about new bailout for greece already priced then and despite some not well the ruble is lower against the u.s. currency as well as the euro. russia's ambitions move to create alpine ski resorts in the caucasus region is gathering billions of dollars worth of a mess and are still required but in the pitch so international investors the company behind the project says it will pay off what quickly then comparable resorts in europe. we think that breakeven period should be five to ten years maximum even with this period the rate of return will be term to fifteen percent

that's a very good rate of return compared to europe but it wasn't as you suggest illustrating a special economic zone in sochi of all kind of benefits with a spring. house for tax benefits this will mean zero income tax for ten years after a company has a stablished but also zero real estate tax we're also discussing with the finance ministry the possibility to offer subsidies a two thirds of refinance rate for those who build facilities this break but as we too because the stock was down the c.e.o. of course a project to develop new results in the caucuses is estimated it up to eighteen billion dollars so with the state providing two billion if you how much progress have you made raising the rest. read our business plans with big foreign companies and hope to start construction next year there is a big domestic market of ten to fifteen million russians who could become clients of these resorts and for. the national business news for now the headlines are next

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market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines june into a report on our. fun thanks for being with us at half past the hour here's a quick look at your headlines at euro zone strikes a long awaited deal on a second bailout for greece after the austerity measures the e.u. demanded of our phones to secure the package sparked riots on the debt stricken country. u.n. nuclear inspectors visit iran for a second time in less than a month with hoping the talks will help to prove its nuclear program has no military purpose. and a fresh at. to negotiate

a cease fire in syria this time by the red cross as the people have high hopes that an imminent referendum on the new constitution will help stop the violence. next we discuss the conflict in syria with former us presidential adviser pat buchanan. i'm sitting down with patrick buchanan senior adviser to presidents which mixing gerald ford and ronald reagan he ran for the presidency three times he wrote many books and some of his books have really manage seeing titles his latest book is called suicide of a superpower a will america survive to twenty twenty five very pessimistic sir paul first of all thank you very much for joining me thank you with regards to foreign policy you're saying one of the ways to prevent that suicide from happening is to dismantle the empire first thought would do you mean by ampyra or you might call it the american

imperium or the american empire. the united states has military bases dating back to the cold war in europe and asia the middle east africa all over the world and we're running a deficit of ten percent of our gross national product and quite frankly we can't afford any longer in my judgment to continue to carry this enormous burden of defending forty or fifty countries around the world and so i think we're going to have to dismantle these bases we're going to have to return back from asia come back from other middle east and south asia and i think really have to bring the troops home from europe you were writing and speaking out extensively about the bush era in iraq crusade under the banner of ending terror name in the world do you think that crusade is still long or the idea that we're going to end tyranny in the world is utterly utopian we never are we've had tyrants from time immemorial

and what do you knighted state should do in my judgment in its foreign policies is build a defense establishment strong enough to protect our vital interests and our vital allies and when problems arise whether it's in zimbabwe or somewhere else the people there have got to deal with their own prob. there's no doubt about it that throughout history tyrants have arisen and seized power in one place or another and as long as they don't threaten our vital interests or threaten and kill our people the fact that they rule and or misrule certain countries is none of our business while some of bin laden's successor said he supports the war against us and sorry army and al qaeda was reportedly behind the four suicide bombings which killed scores of syrian officials and soldiers seen damascus and aleppo aleppo doesn't it seem strange that the us is on the same side with the whole kiting syria well it

did it it does indeed the atlas and the the outside government has been has been ruthless and brutal and suppressing the uprising and the insurgency against it not as brutal as his father was half as a last sod who slaughtered twenty thousand people in hama in one nine hundred eighty two and they rose up and it would probably be a good thing if he departed and they had a more democratic government but your point is well taken the united states should ask itself not only what is the character of this regime but the first question should be do we have a vital interest in who rule syria my answer to that is no secondly if the incumbent government is overthrown who comes to power and syria you have the muslim brotherhood is trying to overthrow assad you have al-qaeda apparently which is moving in trying to overthrow assad so we've got to ask ourselves is the devil we

know preferable to the devil we don't know but in the syrian situation i think the very fact that al qaida has been involved apparently indeed for suicide attacks should tell us that we ought to be wary about overthrowing all. or participating in a movement to overthrow assad before we know what's going to replace him as you said it's very hard to tell what's going to happen to syria if more radical forces seize power do you think the u.s. foreign policy might be helping terrorists indirectly i think the united states. american strategists would have to be fools not to see what al qaeda is doing not to ask the question if it's good for al qaeda can it be good for us and not to look at assad and say he may be a ruthless dictator and what he's doing but what comes after him when he falls i

think al qaeda does its best work or it works best when it finds a country that is fundamentally a failed state in yemen somalia afghanistan under the taliban and i think in those conditions that's where al qaida can plan and recruit far better than it can when you have a a regime which is a hard line regime running the situation whether it's secular or whether syria torn apart by civil war and that that's i think it seems like a good environment for that i think i think that seriously. syria is really a potential disaster in that we could have there are a proxy war between the sunni and shia all over that region there already have sunni coming in from iraq they already have al qaida in there apparently the you could have also a conflict ethnic conflict with the druze in there and the kurds in there as well

as herbs in there i think this is why i'm against plunge putting weapons in and aiding the anti assad resistance because an all out war there could be a disaster which leaves a failed state in syria so what about the strategy that the u.s. is now pursuing putting pressure on assad alone. and not addressing the armed groups the fighting armed groups among the opposition as well well i think that's basically the united states has taken sides in this war we've taken sides there just like we've taken sides in libya what should or what should not the u.s. do here and syria. my policy would be if i were and if i were in the white house would be by and large hands off syria in one of your articles you argue that the obama administration doesn't want to war with iran and the pentagon u.s.

intelligence community they're saying iran does not having a clear bomb and hasn't decided whether or not to build a nuclear bomb iran is obviously getting nothing from a war if nobody wants it then why the drums of war why are they so loud there are people that want to war. i mean you know i think no one wants war you don't have wars unless someone wants it and quite clearly the israeli government would like to see the united states smash iran's nuclear program which they think is creating the conditions where iran could with one leap forward get a bomb the israeli lobby in the united states would like to see where they support the israeli guy the neoconservatives do many republicans do there are many americans who genuinely believe that if iran they believe iran is moving toward a weapon and if it is they would favor military action to prevent it there are

a number of people that want a war and if there are really vital threat coming from the i don't you see i don't know i don't look iran is not iraq i mean during the cold war with due respect soviet union had thousands of weapons they could have destroyed us in an afternoon and we could have done the same thing i was around during the cuban missile crisis that was genuinely term fine but iran doesn't frighten me and i don't think it should frighten the american people they don't have a bomb they don't have they haven't made a decision to bill one didn't have the means to deliver one and the israelis have three hundred atomic bombs i mean who presents the existential threat to whom the last they were it was i visited one of my doctors and we were talking about i hope we don't have a war in iran but now they're talking about an intervention in syria and he said thank god for the russians they've got some ships out there and the americans won't fool around with the russian ships so the russians are keeping us out and that's

wonderful. that's one of my doctors but i think that's that's what the american public thinks i don't think any american wants to intervene in syria they don't understand anything about it iran though they got the ayatollah and they got him out in the job. and he will always help out the hawks with some insane statement every couple of months he's going to destroy somebody or other and then the americans say we have to get him or what is the danger of such rhetoric the danger of such rhetoric is that it leads to another war in the middle east which i think would be a disaster for my country and i think it would be a disaster for the world economy and other could be a disaster for the world you know i opposed desert storm back in one nine hundred ninety one i opposed even going in and clean and said i'm hussein out of kuwait because i said this will only be the first arab american war and i was right

i mean if you talk about islamic wars you had the war desert storm you had the war against afghanistan you got the war in iraq and the war in libya now they're talking about syria and now they're talking about iran. what benefit has this been to the united states when you see where we were in one thousand nine hundred and where we are today and where china was in one thousand nine hundred and where china is today i am going into any of these countries haven't invaded anybody and they're moving upward as is brazil and as are india and what do we do on in all these places some i don't think we can you can't replicate the middle west in the middle east thank you thank you.

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eurozone strikes a long awaited deal on a second bailout for greece after the austerity measures demanded of the athens by the e.u. to secure the package sparked riots in the debt stricken country. u.n. nuclear inspectors visited iran for the second time in less than a month with takraw hoping the talks will help to prove its nuclear program that's no bella terry purpose. and a fresh attempt to negotiate a cease fire in syria this time by the red cross as the people have high hopes that an imminent referendum on a new constitution will help stop the violence. time now to check on the latest

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