back with more in around ten minutes time up next though we talked to political sciences for just kind of get his take on some of the most pressing issues concerning russia from iran's first nuclear power plants to alleged russian arms dealer to boot is coming up next. today we are joined by mr vyacheslav nikonov he is a political scientist and he's also the founder and president of the polity foundation thank you very much for joining us. now the first question i'd like to ask is iran has now launched its first nuclear program as a first in the middle east and russian engineers were a big part of that now what is the implication on russian earing and relationships and how can russia be sure that they're really pursuing this for peaceful purposes actually russia provided the right. nuclear reactor at the same time

americans who are supposed to provide to north korea to prevent them from having nuclear weapons this is a light water reactor which is not capable of providing any uranium weapons grade uranium. and all the fuel will be provided by russia and all the waste good fuel will be taken away by russia so it is safe facility which is very important which is the first nuclear power station in that part of the world which i think is extremely important. as you may know russia was the first to build a nuclear power station which is the first to build nuclear power station in in the middle east which i think is so important. if you follow the reactions of the major countries. are opening. we should by the way is not

yet their station will produce electricity only. december the reaction is quite neutral or even positive the only country which reacted negatively was israel but interacts negatively to whatever happens in relations with iran over any other country since they are for isolating iran i don't think russia is on the position of. the russian government saying. with iran diplomacy. still can work so all the controversy with that we've been hearing in the past few months with major and europe reacting to iran sat. wanting to build nuclear power stations all this is unfounded if you're saying that technically speaking it will not be possible to produce nuclear weapons saloon ot the station isn't capable of producing

a weapons grade uranium iranian nuclear program which worries americans and most europeans and russians is not about to share it's about some other facilities which are on. hand like to stress that. russia being very critical of iran north korea leaf falling all the procedures of international atomic agency still does not agree on whatever is in washington the london or paris or berlin as far as iran is concerned because russia has its own agenda with iran which is somewhat sometimes different and sometimes not related to nuclear energy at all russia and iran. difficult history of relationship at the same time they have quite a while agenda. economic agenda including.

the development of the riches of the caspian sea we have some common strategic interests as far as international terrorism is concerned. iran is very. the us is. l.-i in certain aspects of food policy is fighting terrorism so we have some interests in common we of course in russia north supportive of your rainy and nuclear military program at the same time there are also those whether iran is really up to a bomb. or just a capability which of course is a big difference. say germany or japan countries with nuclear weapons

capabilities they just do not have any bombs and that is their choice so as far as i read the situation iran is not in the suicidal mood and i don't think they really want to bomb they want to keep ability moving on august has been a successful math for the military in the north caucasus forty were killed that had things with al qaeda now what strategy is the military implementing the north caucasus and how do you assess that strategy well northern caucasus of course is a very difficult issue. a great mixture of this different ethnic groups of different religious groups and it is also a field where international terrorism as one of their strongholds. it is well known that the citizens of dozens of

countries participated in the chechen war and of course these kind of activities based on. international terrorist connections are still there. so it is a very difficult job for sure. the strategy for fighting terrorism is twofold one is eliminating terrorists. and two eliminating causes for terrorism and causes or of course different they are economic or says. say programs to provide jobs for another caucuses are as important as fighting terrorism itself. social. solving social programs providing medical services social security. or all that kind of things etiology

is also important the role of moderate islam. in that part of the world is extremely important. since the extreme forms of. islam a terrorist narrative i think it can be and should be rejected by mainstream islam leaders which i think is happening and are you expecting to see a fall extermination of terrorism is that even a reality a possibility well full extermination of terrorism i think is a goal for the whole humankind which is not very easy to achieve terrorism is actually spreading. when the great war with terror happened after nine eleven. there was an assumption that terrorism is more or less localized in afghanistan and then they were looking for causes of terrorism in iraq

what it looks looks like it is more widespread now we can fly and the terrorist training grounds in some countries of southeast asia. they are also quite active in central asia in the former soviet union so it is spreading if hez financing. weapons are there. courses for terrorism are created. almost daily by in zero killing people for example where we can if get killing civilians in afghanistan by the international coalition because more people joining join the terrorist forces unfortunately i think this is something of that thing there were in smaller scale happens in the northern caucasus you know where the federal

or local authorities operations. sometimes increase resistance you know the. women who were blowing up themselves in most schools where you were the widows of the. terrorist activists killed in the northern caucasus so. it's not that easy that's wanted the case of the russian arms dealer detained in thailand now the u.s. has ordered his extradition and moscow says that this act this decision has is a result of external pressure from the u.s. it's illegal and that it's politically motivated so do you think the sinew thorn is it a big enough issue. actually i'm not sure i understand the issue. americans have not provided any factual data so i really don't know what we're talking about.

before. there is a lot of noise about it on all sides but very few factual data so i just don't know of course it is there is an american pressure says the extradition request was sent from the united states it is clear that there were some political pressure on the government of thailand. since there was a decision of the court of the victor would should not be extradited but this is the core changes decision which was definitely under political pressure there was no legal grown for the. so to me it's clear the. it is not clear what's going on and of course there is an american political pressure just to help you understand it he were saying it's very clear so why is this a big deal in the first place i don't know what kind of facts americans or who know

they're talking about some colombian evidence whatever evidence was provided just not aware of that since concrete evidence is not there as for the russian reaction first of all. is the russian citizen in thailand. we americans accused. of colombia. the question is why why america. why they want him. and so on and so forth she's a russian citizen. of course the russian government. asking questions if russian court would decide that some american doing sultan wrong in colombia should be arrested in thailand i think the american government could also have some questions well why it is something that. we sure is of great interest to russia and why the russian courts a russian courtship should make such

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the u.s. meets its withdrawal deadline for combat troops in iraq but thousands of other soldiers remain what critics are calling washington's rebranding its occupation. place your bets russian that's vegas could be moving closer to a major city as far flung gambling zones fail to attract punters. and mass suicide threats villagers in eastern india single killing themselves they don't receive government aid to ease their suffering offer to yad jobs. sports news you kate. welcome to the sports thank you for joining me and here are the top stories. off we

go the u.s. open gets underway with davydenko and dementia cruising through that evening matches. while an off pitch battle bottom side cbs blame the referee for their one nil defeat at the russian premier league. and now boy training superstar tom cruise looks on as the professional bull riders take to the arena. that start with tennis where former finalist the elena dementieva has reached the second round of the last grand slam of the season the u.s. open the trial same hardly played scrabble six one six two win over all got votes about from by the roofs also through his fellow russian t.v. set played bonobo who had the better of swedish johana lawson ukraine's you're not wondering coke finally overcame in three sets french open champion francesca schiavone became the first woman to go into round two italian three seeded sixth is in cruise control in her right there against japan you mean marita winning it six

one six love in just under an hour. on the men's side to me was the first big name to take to the court where the number six seed played local man michael russell was made to come from forty two down in the first set before eventually winning the match in straight sets. moving on to football and in the russian premier league bottom side severe have lodged a complaint about the refereeing in monday's one and defeated sanjay siberians side questioning the penalty that cost them up east a point referee at a time that by a point or spot formants into the second half. of it so i have sam area the midfielder converted the spot to self. what time that's a big deal you guys are going to be all so tight they should be in the edge of the penalty later in latch the wrestling place like that plains. meanwhile transfer lachie praised his senate team after they won three mill at lucky much of

most votes go six points clear at the top of the lead miguel downie scored for because it is a very quickly taken for take off to seventeen minutes then things got worse for last quote ten minutes into the second toss off they had midfield at dynegy tobin's be sent off for a second jello cause and it was in it's just ten minutes to take advantage of that extra man and with more control to say that it's on the book out of the net is on the line of lotto defender stood still expecting the crew for offside what's the referee didn't blow his whistle and the goal stewards to know and that another ten minutes later the lunch at all costs lost it's an accident the area once the last nail into that first coffin tryna was the final score seeming to go six points clear chances are the two games in hand locker up to ten pts. i'll take less than a seven points adrift in third place after two one hundred s. i wanna say do do me up fired him for the first goal which left him dancing for joy

. added the second wagner luff was the provider in this one and surely only meant with two no luck with twenty minutes to go and much seemed as though it would end this way before in stoppage time so to get you can shave it just they were governed else until area of the that's who did the rest. installation go to on it finished. and did turn out to be the difference in thomas one no one time to deny moss that is a bonus first half in siberia when the nice plodding fouled side against the yakov two best stepped up just for the spot kick one nil is the way then did tons moving up to wait. not much point in the taking i so confirmation of the standings in it are six points clear at the top with two games in hand over with being case got a seven points adrift but also have two games to play while following tonight's

defeat i'm sure it's a bit stay bottom. in spain jos a marine years leader adventure has got off to a disappointing start after his real madrid side were held to a goal the store at my old marino had led into milan to an unprecedented domestic and european trouble last season in the way our hoping you could help them and a two year run without a trophy but several good chances but they are going to see on the win now that is guilty of missing a move on one occasion and goalkeeper doodoo also made some great saves to deny right now so it was named debut when you coach maria. however i am trying things barcelona had no problems finding the net as they claimed a three nil first game victory resting santander we know messi opened his account after just three minutes. and then a punch from last innkeeper tonics over the land and a siesta followed it in the box a second. best goal came from

a stunning dive in there he found across the dunny albus just a powerful had one his debut with a go i. while just a day before the summer transfer window closes spartak moscow is set to lose two players to the english premier league the read why it's reached an agreement now back to outer neuronic to banning on the thirty one year old czech republic defender will leave off a six years at the club the details of his move to be disclosed while goalkeepers keep a better case that it's going on a one year loan deal to top them the croatian will be hoping for a better time at spurs and striker roman pavlyuchenko he also moved from spacek two years ago has failed to establish a permanent place in manager harry redknapp starting line. while having a measure on i was officially unveiled as a new boss a long affair on monday the argentina midfielder completed his reported twenty four million dollar move from liverpool the twenty six year old joins the council on

side on four year deal will take home wages something. to the tune of one hundred forty thousand dollars a week. meanwhile the international cricket council says pakistan's tour of england will continue despite a match fixing claims against some players or for pakistan players were questioned by police on sunday after a british tabloid newspaper allegedly paid a middleman for details of three no balls which were bowled by pakistan in the fourth test against england at lord's those questioned include captain salman butt fast bowlers mohammed amir and mohammed a safe and wicketkeeper kamran akmal there's no indication they will face suspension at this stage meanwhile cricket agent masada my g.d. was released without charge after being arrested on saturday on suspicion of conspiring to do for bookmakers england won the final test at lord's on sunday to take the serious three one. for me to announce two thousand and eight champion lewis hamilton has returned to the top of this season standings following

a super at the belgian grand prix red bulls mark webber started from pole but was slow out of the blocks and cleared the first corner of the spot track down in sixth place hamilton made full use of the australians bit to lead the race from then on the bench to the first across the finish line called his way back to second spot in this accident pit race it was not enough to keep him on top of the standings and now trails hamilton by three points where his red bull team mate sebastian vettel finished absent the points but remains third overall ahead of defending champion jenson button and fernando alonso both crashed out ferraris for the paymaster came home forced to stay six in the drivers' championship. it was a great weekend. very very tough race for me i think same for everyone but. can you frame for just a race that went smoothly but mostly with the tricky conditions when it started to rain. pollution temperature in the tires and her not really knowing how much you

can push in each corner and break free quite late and locked my wheel and went wide in turn eight hundred g.'s i was you know they were definitely had his hand over me because i was able to get away with it. in the meantime boxing champion vitaly klitschko says russian giants nikolai valuev have has turned down one of the half million dollar offer to fight in the ukrainian heavyweight was speaking ahead of his bat with american shannon briggs the elder klitschko brother had approached us and fellow russian alex on that but that can as well as britain david haye but none of them agreed so vitali who holds the w.b.c. belt would instead step into the ring against former w.b.i. champion briggs the match will take place in hamburg on oct sixteenth and briggs hopes to make it a quick joke. it's no secret. looking forward to make a difference for. your strange. future.

that's how. you just. cannot. usually it's. not a monster. and finally actor tom cruise has taken some time off from hollywood to enjoy some real life death defying action albeit only from the stands at the latest event on the professional bull riding tour the american superstar might have developed a liking for bull racing after escaping a fierce back in his latest film night and day i was fostered in california watching for today devils holding on for dear life it's going to these raging beasts all you need to do is stay in the saddle for eight seconds in the championship round which is easier said than done as i don't want to try going on as to the top local boy austin miles secured his best win of the season let's be honest thirty one stops across america however his feet had been much honest

writing ben jones in a preliminary round but i need to repeat the buzz a grosso made everybody laugh by celebrator dunks all fluids. and that's all the sport for this bill isn't life and. i.

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