thurso need for the state of israel prime minister for israel government of israel and the palestinians. to get to the table and start discussing without any terms and conditions in the act by water solomon the israeli protester who set himself on fire and later died from his wounds during the recent social protests is an act that until now has largely been associated with non-democratic countries is foreman's act not an indicator that the social protests and as well are more than just social this is an interesting question. i believe in these really democracy after all i think we are still a democracy and we have to defend our democracy democracy is not something you know that is written in a paper and that if you have all voice to fight for a. specific to the case of this very issue that you asked me about i don't believe that you chose that israel or the social protest are being in an undemocratic state i don't think so. the demonstrations last three or it's you know a huge number of people they took part in. less than a million but many people there weren't any violence of it all an

israel shouldn't. waste it's money in the west bank anyhow even me for every person every soul in israel had a house without any. real connection to the seashore but of course when we have such a big problem for housing. for poor people then we could make use of this money to make better life. inside israel what impact will israel's uncertain economic problems have on financing the outposts i really don't know but what i'm seeing is that we're talking about problems economic problems in israel severe economic problems in israel but when the government is talking about the west bank the problem they cannot have problems vanished because if they want to remove. thirty people in the open now. which is some land somewhere else because the supreme court of justice or freezer ordered it then the government has a lot of money to bring them there or to build new houses or to build a new. settlement instead of me grown tell your son thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. most welcome. my name is richar

israel is a small country located in iran's back yard. israel is threatened almost weekly, if not daily, with annihilation by iranian leaders. so as iran continues to expand its program both increasing its stockpiles, we think we have -- we think they have five bombs worth of enriched uranium -- if they keep moving at underground the places which will be beyond our capabilities, then it is built in our considerations, our clocks are moving faster. >> the israeli ambassador also said all other measures had failed to persuade iran to give up its nuclear program. >> we have had five months of diplomacy, a chance to get iran to negotiate and in its nuclear program. they haven't worked. we have had several years of sanctions against iran. the sanctions haven't worked according to the iaea, the program is actually accelerating but not stopping. keep in mind that no country has a greater stake than israel in resolving the iran nuclear threat by diplomatic means. we have the most skin in the game. we're right next door. ahmadinejad, the chief of

and -- and should israel respond? >> well, you've got two things going on, as you rightly point out, iran's rhetoric is ratcheting up their repeated threats they've made against israel's very insistence but as the new missile test proves, they are also continuing to upgrade their capabilities, to be able to carry through on those threats. so, it is just a matter of simple logic, for israel to be prepared for the worst. they live in a very tough neighborhood. it is perfectly clear iran is getting ever closer to a nuclear weapons capability. and we know that in syria, they have chemical weapons, and, by their own admissions, perhaps a biological weapons program, that they -- the assad regime has threatened to use against foreigners and you have a risk if that regime falls, the new regime comes in and acquires those weapons, so, israel has a lot of adversaries to protect itself against. >> kelly: you were just talking about the new weapons, in terms of chemical weapons, and let's talk about syria, because the escalating

the revolution in egypt shattered the tentative peace with neighboring israel with increasing rocket strikes across the sun i peninsula but it's not the relations between the countries that suffered egypt's jewish citizens living in fear to the arab spring that made them wary of both new rulers and their neighbors this policy or found. alone frightened and struggling one of the last of her people in a land that no longer wants them selene has merely the photos of who did family for comfort she is one of cairo's few remaining jews once there were eighty thousand now there are fewer than twenty certainly i'm afraid certainly i am but as a bad light i just be able to forget. she has reason to be wary the new rulers of egypt the muslim brotherhood call for jihad and want the liberation of palestine they've launched a war of words against jews that goes as far as to threatened if it took us a long time to find something and when we did even longer to convince her to be interviewed by us she was worried that her neighbors would see her talking to a television crew eventually she agreed to

israel pressedded that. if necessary we'll do what we have to to protect the entire world and the jewish state. >> all right. thank you so much for joining us today. >>> let's talk about the election. governor mitt romney is now calling for a, quote, something dramatic to help the us economy recover. this as the governor continues to put pressure on president obama over the latest jobs report. national correspondent steve sensentcentanni reports. >> reporter: democrats question whether romney has any plan for fixing the economy. the candidate hit the air waves himself calling for another stimulus and bold action. >> now is the time for something dramatic, and it's not the time to grow government. it's the time to create the incentives and the students for entrepreneurs and businesses big and small to hire more people, and that's going to happen. you're going to see that happen in this country, but not under this president. >> romney's holding private meetings today and tomorrow at his vacation home in new ha

administration be careful in urging israel to stick with diplomacy and now of course the big question is whether israel may in fact go ahead with such an attack and whether or not it will wait for a green light from washington importantly experts in this article are quoted to say that if such an attack were to take place before the u.s. presidential elections there this would cause a major embarrassment to barack obama as well as really cast a blow to his success in these elections because as we know his main rival republican mitt romney has never excluded such an option now a correspondent in new york and i have to do a comb there's a lot you can find there right now amongst the many stories we go one that these are a couple rough justice found that whether the white house ignored a court ban on indefinitely detaining american citizens without trial. and paying the price for playing up to the camera another fatality here in russia from the craze for posting pictures of dangerous stunts online. if you. mission free credit patient free runs for charges free. range month free. free. fre

secretary panetta was in israel, mitt romney was just in israel. netanyahu says the sanks have had an effect on the economy of iran, but not the desire or progress toward nuclear weapon. where do you think the iran issue is headed? >> i think the prime minister of israel, netanyahu, is probably correct. their intelligence on iran is excellent. sanctions tend not to work very well over a long period of time. and they do have the effect, tending to damage and hurt the people as opposed to the government. it's the people and the government tend to be able to manage their affairs and go on. the sanctions in iraq didn't -- hurt the iraqi people, but didn't hurt saddam hussein. he kept doing what he wanted to. >> greta: we keep hearing that all options are on the table. but i have none no sense in terse of time -- >> i don't -- i have no sense of the timing. kisay this, i think any prime minister of israel who gets up and reads in the newspaper that the leadership of iran says that the israeli state should be annihilated, eradicated, incinerated, has to

what should israel israel do? >> certain a huge threat. we cannot live with with iran having nuclear military power. we should not accept it. the question is how much time do we have and what should we do. for me how much time do we have is a correlation to what should we do. because if we are going to act unilaterally without any american or international support, without creating the atmosphere in the middle east it's not only that we shall have to face the reaction. probably it's too late for what we can achieve with our military power probably is to delay the program for i don't know, 12, 18 or six months. but if we believe we are a power based on a sunni coalition and america... >> rose: what do you mean "sunni coalition"? >> sunni coalition means that turkey with egypt, jordan, saudi arabia understand that the major conflict is with shi'a led by iran and they create this coalition. in order to create this coalition that we face iran so this is the coalition. >> has there been an event or a person that changed your mind? that brought

cause a military attack on iran sometime within the next several months importantly israel's security cabinet ministers have been resisting such an option for now what's important here is while israel is weighing this option we know of course that iran continues to insist that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes exclusively and we have seen the obama administration be careful in urging israel to stick with diplomacy and now of course the big question is whether israel may in fact go ahead with such an attack and whether or not it will wait for a green light from washington importantly experts in this article are quoted to say that if such an attack were to take place before the u.s. presidential elections there this would cause a major embarrassment to barack obama as well as really cast a blow to his success in these elections because as we know his main rival republican mitt romney has never excluded such an option. well as the media frenzy over a possible strike on iran gains momentum the u.s. president has tightened economic sanctions against the country they knew all sig

and were delivered to israel. they were the ones who were actually used to kill rachel so so all of these all of those elements that i mentioned are complicit in one way or another and we have to challenge the whole the whole system that is on the one hand not respecting human rights and on the other hand those who are funding and being complicit in that role it will leave it there thank you very much indeed ronnie barker an activist calling on boycotting israel from within there very good to hear your thoughts thank you very much indeed. leading muslim scholar and spiritual leader has been killed in a terror attack in russia's caucuses republic of dagestan local police a female suicide bomber blew herself up at the home of the cleric at least six others were also killed in this following developments for us. seventy four year old shaikh side of fundy was a leading muslim scholar a spiritual leader and an author in dagestan in russia's north caucasus he had thousands of followers there was a previous attempt on hi

that little country which few day to mention is israel they may be divisions among egyptians but they are united in their hatred of their neighbor. israel is a racist states which doesn't respect agreements and israeli jew is not welcome in egypt being in the know treats you continue between us i hate dealing with israel and its presence in the region is dangerous but. israel is a cancer our main enemy after the revolution of january it's now possible to cancel the peace agreement with them and so simeon spends her remaining days alone holed up in her apartment and suffering from alzheimer's disease too afraid to venture out and when she does it's only for the shortest time just in the memory of a fast disappearing world policy r.t. cairo. now time to take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world this hour. at least one hundred eighty people have been killed and more than one hundred thousand excuse me one thousand injured as two strong earthquakes hit northwest iran panicked residents fled the area as aftershocks continued while communications and electricity we

later, war drums for israel and iran. we talk about it with israel's ambassador to the u.s. a >> bret: the suspect in yesterday's shooting at the headquarters of a conservative christian group was in court today in washington. it's not yet known whether the incident will be treated as domestic terrorism. tonight, correspondent catherine herridge looks at what could be seen as uneven political application of that term. >> as he is charged with two gun-related offenses as the shooting of the family research council, the head of the conservative christian advocacy group said the mote sif clear. >> terrorism is designed to intimidate and to drive people back and make them fearful. well, that, i believe, would describe what they tried to do here yesterday at the family research council. by extension to traditional value, supporters, christians across the nation. >> white house press secretary jay carney was asked if the shooting by a gunman who allegedly said he didn't like the group's politics was a hate crime or something else. >> determinations are made by the f.b.i. >> the f.

[ laughter ] or kept asking everyone in israel where the best of the baseball cap was. >> israel's achievements are a wonder of the modern world. these are achievements are a tribute to the resilience of the israeli people. >> jon: huh. no insults to anybody there. no indell began the behavior near sacred ground. romney spuing it off. >> your innovators and enter entrepreneurs have made the desert bloom and made for a better world. >> jon: okay now you are just kissing ass. and now delicious is the bouli. -- tebouli. i can't believe you made a salad with bullar wheat. >> i'm impressed with the thriving economy. >> jon: the language so beautiful it sounds like an angel with throat cancer. did he. he screwed up in england and poland but he managed to go there without saying anything offensive or horrible. >> speaking at a fund raiser he commented on the economic disparity between israel and the surrounding palestinian area saying quote do you notice such a dramatically stark difference in economic vitality, culture makes all the different. >> jon: missed it by that much. [ laughter ] so close! so

israel has feared that in the sinai. this vast desert area between southern israel and cairo that jihadi base was being built and that was being used by various jihadi. organizations. on themselves and wanted and we're seeing these fears being years so we're talking about the sinai peninsula here all with a large desert area and this is the aim of the attack is to control that region. right well the attack was first of all. increased tensions between israel and egypt i think that's going to be. the attackers had in mind and second of all we have to remember that these organizations believe that violence. and justifies all means they believe in the act itself as an ideological goal. their religion as they see it and also to bring about a change to eventually create a government in the image of their interpretation of islam you talk about increasing tensions between israel and egypt that's one of the intentions but well what impact will that have on the relations between the two. well i certainly know they don't succeed in

israel is a racist state which doesn't respect agreements and israeli jew is not welcome in egypt. no treats you continue between us i hate dealing with israel and its presence in the region is dangerous. israel is a cancer our main enemy after the revolution of january it's now possible to cancel the peace agreement with them and so simeon spends her remaining days alone holed up in her apartment and suffering from alzheimer's disease too afraid to venture out and when she does it's only for the shortest time just in the memory of a fast disappearing world policy r.t. cairo. rees's explore you all avenues to tackle its smallest debt on tug's dodgers are in the firing line the country's gotto woeful revenue collection record and officials are making it easier to seek out and find those avoiding their tax man. at twelve thirty g.m.t. economist roger bootle believes the country's only real option to save itself is to quit the euro's at. least in my view needs to get out of the euro i cannot see any way in which this current policy of austerity is going to bring any relief or solve th

israel is a racist. state which doesn't respect agreements and israeli jew is not welcome in egypt being in the military to continue between us i hate do with israel and its presence in the region is dangerous but. israel is a cancer our main enemy after the revolution of january it's now possible to cancel the peace agreement with them and so selene spins her remaining days alone holed up in her apartment and suffering from alzheimer's disease too afraid to venture out and when she does it's only for the shortest time just in the memory of a fast disappearing world policy r.t. . still to come for you this. can you afford to be healthy. to eat a tomato yeah yeah it's good. that the well eleven yeah well do eat organic or non-organic that's the question then our resident reporters got the answers in the streets of new york coming up a bit later. here russia's air force has been celebrating its same teener in spectacular sky style in the skies over moscow region a three day display set to see the national

they cannot cross into israel for work or to go to the west bank. and the only exist is through egypt where people spend days at the border. felt like i left to go to another country, you know? >> you went to another country. >> so you think i did the right thing? >> oh, forget it. >> forget it? >> yeah. >> they'll lynch you. you know? because they don't have too many trees. i don't know where they'll handing you from. lways eager to here because this is my home. and then when i go back, i take with me a lot of guilt leaving these people behind. >> when are we going to get to the humane level? people should be incensed. not just the palestinians. we should fight arabs and jews to preserve that. >> my opinion is that both sides, people are tired, fatigued and brainwashed and they will not reeble in a way that they would march? the streets. people are saying i care about my four corners and my garden, and it's out of my control and i don't see this rebellion happening. >> clearly i'm the optimist of 2002 of us. in fact, i believe that rather than crea

he is israel's civil defense chief. he said israeli government planners are prepared for 500 israeli deaths, should israel launch attacks against iranian nuclear targets. let me quote him. "there might be fewer dead or more, perhaps, but this is a scenario for which we are preparing in accordance with the best expert advice." went on to say, "the war would be expected to last about 30 days and would occur on several fronts." this is all according to the israeli paper maariv, who conducted this interview with this man, maman milvai. and we couldn't leave this out, so we brought in matt an expert on foreign relations. question number one, the is israeli government sending a message to someone through this official? >> yeah, brooke. i think the israeli government is sending a couple of messages. one, two iran, saying that they're very serious about iran's nuclear program, that they need to stop the program, and that they're developing all options, including military options to deal with it, in an effort to convince iran to

cooking nearly suicidal for israel. considering that with all the change in egypt in the neighboring countries the tech like this you don't know how to how the region would react and if netanyahu the rational would be happy and safe and think no they won't dare to unfortunately i'm not sure that that and you know is that rational i mean he's increasing he's really increasing his tanks israel attacks. and i'm afraid his calculation might be before the u.s. election i can attack iraq i have to back me after the election he might not want to back so that the gives us really really bad chance that the netanyahu might attack in october as soon as october and starts with an attack and the question is how an attack from. tools for a nuclear science in iran how will that develop. i'm not sure it will develop an all out war but i mean attacks on israel will happen then you don't know how to react with a street of formals whether they will close it or not that will definitely start an all out war in terms of germany's role what j

israel." he end by seeing, "stop using this as a photo op for fundraisers. stop making things worse by telling israelis things they want to hear to grovel for jewish votes and money by blatantly avoiding the other side." i take it you agree? >> yeah, i don't think the romney trip was mostly about american jewish votes. a small percentage of american j jews making it a voting issue. of 4%, most probably already support romney. i think it was really as thom ad friedman mentioned, it was donor maintenance. it was basically romney has a small number of very rich american jewish donors who are very far to the right. sheldon adele son was in the front row. and sheldon adelson is someone who opposes a palestinian state, believes the palestinians are an invented people, and has said that all terrorists are islamic. and what romney did was he went and catered to sheldon adelson, never mentioned the world palestinian state, never mentioned the word palestinian, and said america should never publicly cri

the present government would like to keep the peace with israel and israel clearly would like to keep the peace with egypt. and there is a respect as a result of the elections. but the results of the elections are not the only story. the problem is will the egyptian government be able to escape egypt from an economic problems? the problem of egypt is poverty more than anything else. look, it cannot be done, in my judgment, just by foreign aid. if they want to escape the poverty, it must be an egyptian decision, an egyptian choice, and an egyptian implementation. >> one last question. how closely are you watching the american presidential election? >> very close. and it's very close. >> indeed, it is. and we are watching it closely, too. >> sure. >> well, i went through many elections and my impression usually from the elections i went through is only in the last two weeks with it is -- and then you know the results. >> mr. president, thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> nice talking to you. >> nights talking to you. >> we have much more with the israeli president. you can see our entire i

are israel and iran on the brink of war? there's a report out tonight that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is determined to attack iran before the november elections here in the u.s. and here to talk about it is my great friend. >> the fog of war, that's where we are right now. the israelis are ready to do what they must to defend their national interests. the united states is very well aware of the fact that iran is a major threat to israel. at the same time, syria remains an open wound. here'sle ka cue lags on the white house's part. if it move against skeer yeah, that will stay israel's hand because we will be bound to deal with the chaos that ensues. turkish troops move into syria. syria knows this, iran knows this. on the other hand, israel knows if it does not move now and the president is re-elected therefore it loses all advantage and the president with his pro islam, pro islamist leanings with not listen to israel. so israel for the next 76 days has the advantage to move now. >> because obama wouldn't dare