stephen: renault previously had great success in iran. they are hoping to quadruple their production by 2020. reporter: just a few months ago these car parts could not have been imported to iran. today, they are being used to make the tondo. the restrictions on their business, the company suffered losses of over 500 million euros. >> they production lines did not stop but there was limited activity. the factories were working at about 15% to 20% of their capacity. and that is just not tenable when you have six cars. reporter: in the past, renault was one of iran's biggest carmakers. that is a position they want to win back. with a current annual input of 100,000 vehicles, renault is looking to triple or even quadruple this number in coming years. >> we are planning to bring out the thunder model and the pickup model. we are testing the renault capture, which has worked well in europe. we sold 800 vehicles online in iran in just four hours. we aim to be in the top three in the market here. reporter: many foreign carmakers are now looking f

guest: french car maker renault is wanting to take advantage of the largest carmaker in the middle east. they spoke about their ambition for the future. reporter: just a few months ago these car parts cannot have an imported to iran. but today, they are being used to make the iranian version of the logan model. the french firm maintained a presence in iran through its local partners but restrictions on business saw the company suffer losses of over 50 ccccc ♪ is democracy now! >> i don't think it is a big problem. >>

popeye: en la Época habÍa mucho renault 4. el patrÓn era muy gracioso, el patrÓn no se reÍa mucho. en ese carro venÍa del correo. >> y una lujosa limusina incinerada. popeye: esta limosina se la vendieron a pablo emilio escobar. la policÍa le estaba diciendo a pablo, si lo matamos no pasa nada. el patrÓn ya, le pide y nos envÍa a nosotros y nos entregamos a la policÍa. >> selva adentro y devolviendo sus pasos, comenzarÁ a reconocer un lugar muy importante. por esa pista salieron cientos de aviones la cargados de cocaÍna hacia los estados unidos. tenÍa la complejidad de la polÍtica de ese momento. popeye: yo me acuerdo muchas investigaciones por esa pista, cuando el juez, el director de la era civil. >> el ex jefe de sicarios volviÓ a recorrer, y recordÓ como experimentar con los explosivos. aquÍ se experimentÓ con el primer carro bomba. >> a unas millas de la hacienda visitaba del rÍo. así montaba en lancha rÁpida. popeye: en este rÍo nunca matamos a nadie porque era para divertirnos. >> fue en ese sitio donde su patrÓn tuvo un encuentro cercano con la muerte. pop

[applause] what followed is that al-assad use those weapons again and again in the renault serious consequences whatsoever. having lost our credibility on such an epic scale, it is hard to get it back. we had better try because the longer we do nothing, the more dangerous the situation becomes and the more directly our friends and our interest are threatened. -- ourimate goal ultimate goal is to achieve long-term political stability in the country, defeating crisis requiring the feeding al-assad, but we have to make sure his regime is not replaced by something as bad or worse. the last thing we need in syria is a repeat of libya with its plane less aftermath, where the end of the dictatorship was only the beginning of more terrorist violence, including the death of four americans in benghazi. [applause] syria will need a stable government in a transition free of more sectarian bloodletting depend on the credible moderate forces we help to unite and build up today. to that end, my strategy would be to bring american influence to bear in four important areas of action. effort isorrugated essentia

there's an upgrade on renault in particular. and basic resources have rallied and continue to extend their gains through the session. the big miners -- i meant pirelli. pirelli has finally got got-ahead to be taken over by the chinese. government-controlled entity, so that particular deal goes through. world's fifth largest tire maker, now effectively chinese-owned. back to the basic resource stocks, the miners i was mentioning, we had an upgrade from liberum. moving from a sell to a hold. built on the gains through the session. they're doing relatively well. the other thing to say is it's the third day that the greek stock market is open. you see the continued crumbling of the greek banks, if they fall by 30%, they're halted for the rest of the session. day three and they're down another 30%. if you continue to erode and question how much the banks are worth as far as equity hold remembers concerned. that's not the focus of europe, that's why we put it at the end. back to you. >> thank you very much, simon hobbs. >>> when we co