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| Afshin Rattansi talks to Max Keiser about a recession in Japan |
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Afshin Rattansi in Tehran talks to Max Keiser
in Paris about a global recession.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy contracted
in the second quarter at its sharpest rate in
seven years, adding to worries that the
world's No.2 economy has slipped into a
recession as global growth shows more signs
of losing steam.
Consumers and companies cut spending as they
struggle with steep energy and raw material
costs, while spreading damage from the U.S.
slowdown hurt exports to emerging nations --
possibly marking the end of Japan's longest
expansion since World War Two.
Tags : japan gdp dollar keiser rattansi economy inflation stagflation dow ftse oil opec iran iraq goldman suisse |
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Affichage : 839
Durée : 233 s |
| Afshin Rattansi interviews the Secretary-General of the Arab League |
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Arab League chief Amr Moussa said here
Tuesday that Iran's nuclear program is
completely peaceful and by no means does it
pose any threat.
"None of the reports released by
International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA)
have shown diversion of Iran's nuclear
activities to military purposes; so, it
should be said that Iran's nuclear program is
peaceful and can by no means considered a
threat," Moussa told IRNA on the sidelines of
the 15th NAM Foreign Ministers meeting in
Tehran on Tuesday.
Moussa further said that not all peaceful
nuclear activities can be a threat and this
holds true for all countries.
He added that the proper solution to Iran's
nuclear case is ialogue.
"The issue can be solved only through
dialogue and diplomatic means. All political
options should be on table," he added.
Tags : non-aligned movement iran iaea nuclear gaza vienna elbaradei bush cheney israel war tehran rattansi amr moussa |
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Affichage : 84
Durée : 204 s |
| Violence in Iraq Rages as President Bush hails the surge - Amanda Lindhout & Afshin Rattansi |
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Afshin Rattansi in Tehran in Iran interviews
Press TV's Amanda Lindhout in Baghdad.
Spinning the Bloodshed in Basra
Washington Post
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, March 27, 2008; 1:43 PM
As fighting rages in Basra, the White House
is unleashing a forceful spin campaign to
frame the Iraqi government's offensive there
as a positive outcome of the U.S. troop surge
and a symbol of better days to come.
Speaking to an invitation-only audience at an
Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio, this morning,
President Bush argued that the Basra
incursion "shows the progress the Iraqi
security forces have made during the surge"
and "demonstrates to the Iraqi people that
their government is committed to protecting
them. . . .
"The enemy, you know, will try to fill the TV
screens with violence," he scoffed. "But the
ultimate result will be this: Terrorists and
extremists in Iraq will know they have no
place in a free and democratic society."
But is the bloodshed in Basra an example of a
unified central government asserting itself
and the Iraqi army standing up? Or is it
further evidence of the internecine strife
ravaging the country? Will Basra become a
symbol of the restoration of the rule of law?
Or will it turn out to be a step toward
heightened violence?
There is plenty of reason to doubt the White
House spin.
Tags : tehran iran iraq basra mosul baghdad rattansi lindhout press tv bush surge sadr moqtada qom mailiki wmd violence amanda |
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Durée : 187 s |
| Afshin Rattansi - Showreel Spring 2008 |
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Afshin Rattansi has for more than a decade
and a half worked in flagship broadcast and
print media around the world. In the UK, he
has worked at The Guardian, the New
Statesman, for every regional and national
outlet of the BBC and a host of award-winning
Channel 4 production companies. In 1999, he
helped to launch the developing world's first
global financial news and current affairs
channel (see articles).
He has reported on events across Africa and
Latin America as well as the Middle East and
Europe for fifteen years, covering the fall
of the Berlin Wall, the resignation of
Margaret Thatcher and working on the first UK
primetime documentary to analyse human rights
abuses by the then US and British-backed
regime of Saddam Hussein.
Before working for the BBC's Business and
Economics Units, he analysed geopolitical
financial and environmental risk for Lloyd's
of London after world markets crashed.
Portfolio allocation was of the order of £1
bn.
Returning from the Middle East in 2002, he
went on to produce for the BBC's top-rated
radio show, the Today programme, on Radio 4.
The programme was at the centre of the furore
over claims that the Iraqi government
possessed weapons of mass destruction. He
left the programme amidst the events that led
to the widely ridiculed Hutton Inquiry into
the death of government scientist and Today
programme source, David Kelly.
He was one of the first english-language
employees of Al Jazeera and worked at the
Arab satellite station's flagship programme,
'Top Secret' which uncovered the Al Qaida
plot to attack Washington and New York in
2001.
He has since worked for the UK's top-rated
breakfast television programme GMTV as well
as CNN Internationa
He went on to edit news for Bloomberg
Television.
He is presently based in Tehran, Iran -
working at Press TV.
Afshin Rattansi has written six novels that
have been represented by A. P. Watt and
Curtis Brown Literary Agencies. His quartet,
"The Dream of the Decade - The London Novels"
is published by Booksurge in the United
States of America.
Tags : Afshin Rattansi Journalism Presenting Anchor Anchoring Presenter Show Reel Showreel Politics News BBC CNN Jazeera |
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Affichage : 540
Durée : 597 s |
| Afshin Rattansi and Gore Vidal on Iran & Power June 2008 |
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Gore Vidal speaks to Afshin Rattansi about
another of President Bush's attorney-generals
facing a subpoena, the White House becoming
Persepolis and military action against Iran.
Afshin Rattansi: We hear that Michael Mukasey
is going to become the latest of the
President's Attorney-Generals to be
subpoenaed, this time over his conversations
with Bush and Cheney -- does this show that
Congress is serious about calling the
executive to account?
Gore Vidal: No, Congress has never been more
cowardly, nor more corrupt. All Bush has do
is to make sure certain amounts of money go
in the direction of certain important
congressmen and that's end of any serious
investigation. After all, one of the bravest
members of Congress is Denis Kucinich who
brought the article of impeachment in to the
well of the House of Representatives. The
House of Representatives must then try the
president, and then after that it goes to the
Senate for judgment. However, none of these
things will happen because there's nobody
there except for Mr. Kucinich who has the
courage to take on a sitting president who is
kind of a Mafioso.
Afshin Rattansi: How can it just be one
person among so many hundreds of Congressmen
who wants the impeachment of George W. Bush
in these circumstances?
Gore Vidal: Well it's because we no longer
have a country. We don't have a republic any
more. During the last 7 or 8 years of the
Bush regime, they've got rid of the Bill of
Rights, they've got rid of habeas corpus.
They have got rid of one of the nicest gifts
that England ever left us when they went away
and we ceased to be colonies -- the Magna
Carta -- from the 12th century. All of our
law and due process of law is based on that.
And the Bush people got rid of it. The
president and little Mr. Gonzales who for a
few minutes was his Attorney General. They
managed to get rid of all of the
constitutional links that made us literally a
republic.
Afshin Rattansi: You have often written about
the United States' superpower status in terms
of the history of previous superpowers. Do
you think we're witnessing the end of U.S.
power as some suggest. Will the White House
be seen like Persepolis?
Tags : gore vidal afshin rattansi bush cheney kucinich impeachment iran tehran war israel obama clinton mccain plame mukasey |
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