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Barack Obama, the US President is running out of patience with US bankers, whom he accused of fighting common sense consumer protections.

In a meeting on Monday he urged them to support new legislation to reform Wall Street. And he told them they owed it to the country to hepl the economy by lending more money to small businesses.

It comes after a clearly irritated president said he did not run for office just so he could help out a bunch of fat cat bankers.

But does the new legislation go far enough? And will it prevent another financial crisis from happening again?

The current stalemate in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) has not
put a brake on the first conference of a new Jewish-American adovcacy group in Washington.

The organisation called J Street, which formed just a year ago, positions itself as a lobby in opposition to the current Israeli government on several issues.

It is backing the Obama administration as it pursues a two-state solution that includes a halt
to teh building of Jewish settlements on the West Bank. Tom Ackerman has more.

Today on Street Talk we hear feedback on our show about the Superclass, heard about what one organisation is doing for clean water, and heard your answers to our question of the week.

Today on Riz Khan Street Talk we hear your opinions on the Middle-East peace process, the role of African nations in the Zimbabwe crisis and if China is the right country to hold the 2008 Olympics.

Should the Sadr movement be barred from Iraq general elections if the Medhi army isn’t disbanded?