if they don't see. is there something after a two year drought some. modern food and. body back i was born around ten minutes time but now we talk to political scientists which is the kind of get his take on some of the most pressing issues concerning russia from iran's first nuclear power plant to alleged russian arms dealer big to boot if he's 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 from push now the first question i'd like to ask is iran has now launched its first nuclear program it's 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 raw. nuclear reactor of the same to americans who were 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 weapons grade uranium. and all the fuel will be provided by russia and all the waste if you will will be taken we were assured 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. and as you may know russia was the first to build a nuclear power station and what is the really first to build a nuclear power station in the middle east which i think is so important that

if you follow the reactions of the major countries on bushehr opening we should by the way is not yet their station will produce electricity only by december their 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 any other country since they are for isolating iran i don't think russia is on the position. the russian government things that. 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 said. 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 absolutely not this station is not capable of producing weapons grade uranium the iranian nuclear program which worries americans and europeans and russians is not about to share it's about some other facilities which are on this. don't like to stress that. russia being very critical of iran north korea lee for weighing all the procedures of international atomic agency still does not agree on whatever is said in washington and 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 since for as international terrorism is concerned in iran is very. the us is. an ally 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 though it's 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 a suicidal mood and i don't think they really want to bob they want to keep ability moving on august has been a successful march fourth military in the north caucasus fourteen 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 the. citizens of dozens of countries for dissipative the chechen war and of course these kind of activity it's based on. international to actions 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 are of course different they are economic causes. and 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 it all is also important the role of moderate islam. in that part of the world is extremely important. since the extreme forms of. islam make 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 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 it looks like it is more widespread now we can fire 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 as financing. weapons are there. and courses for terrorism are created. almost daily by in al killing people for example in afghanistan killing civilians in afghanistan by the international coalition cause more people joining joining the terrorist forces unfortunately i think this is something of that thing there were in smaller scale

weapons in the northern caucasus you know where. federal. or local authorities operations. sometimes increase resistance you know the. women who were blowing up themselves. where you were the widows of the. terrorist activists killed in the northern caucasus so. it's not that easy that's who 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 us it's illegal and that it's politically motivated so do you think this in you thorn is it a big enough issue. actually i'm not sure i understand the issue. americans have

not provided any effectual data so i really do not know what we're talking about. by four. 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. viktor would should not be extradited but this is the core changes decision which was definitely under political pressure there was no legal grown for that. so to me it's clear the. it is not clear what's going on and of course there is an american political pressure there just to help you understand you are saying it's very unclear 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. russia so it isn't entirely. americans accused of some. circle are. they so the question is why why american. why they want him. and so on and so forth he's a russian citizen. and of course the russian government. questions if a russian court would decide that someone american doing something wrong in colombia should be arrested in thailand i think they're very can go could also have some questions well why it is something. we should is of great interest to

russia and why the russian courts a russian courtship should make such a decision thank you very much for your time thank you. her. mum. mum. on her.

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hello and welcome to the sports news and our team here is what's coming up in the program here is so fun gets on the way with the identical in demand to vote cruising through to the second round about an hour or so often it's not down to frist. while the u.s. survived their first real test of the world basketball championships beating brazil just by two. and bottom side should be to blame the referee for their want to defeat the russian prime minister but we begin with tennis as the u.s. open got underway at flushing meadows in new york and may go either way safely through into the second round the russian opening his campaign with a straight sets win over a local man michael. was made to come from for two down in the first sad before eventually winning six four six one six three six three and saying he is far from

his best despite the victory. before my injury you're much more. feel much much stronger now like i say. yeah if you play matches you feel like something in the moment i don't feel like i don't feel like i play like him. this time. maybe depends how in my mentions counting how if i think how many matches and when then i can feel it and i can say you find play very good and play like top gun play in. the two thousand and three years and you want it was also a window on his twenty eighth birthday cruising past frenchman stefan go bad the american however also getting a bit testy when else about his current shape. you know eighty percent better than it is five six weeks ago that's for sure so. it's going the way. you know and to be to be honest once you decide to play i think you throw

all you throw excuses marrying also out of the window no i if i decide to play them it's up to me to give one hundred percent or so. it's not something i really want to. discuss too much from from this point forward it's something that's because they're. you know i'm not going to you know want to go every day there's not a perfect it's not perfect but it's far it's going the right way. urging fedorov the number two seed is also through to the second stage up to be lying brian roman so meanwhile they did all five sets to edge out all straight and andres hyde the hour six four in the decider and your e-mails are played out another five set against the way they russian eventually leaving the grand slam six two in the fifth set. now on the women's side of the draw no problems while defending champion came close does solve all the belgian had to fly back from full of down in the second to

get three of us to grab the six love seven five guys does the final score in that one. for these last few weeks and just prepare for the open nothing new for it's time you know it's obvious you get my game by then but just to come out there and you know defending my time i've never been this mission that. someone said that it could not come any faster. you're going on one of the i want to have for a while six. elsewhere american melanie oudin will reach the goals of flushing meadows last days off to a great start this time around as well the eighteen year old drop in just three games against all those such. everyone has one cinderella story and mine was last year so now it's like ok everyone just expects me to do that because i did last year but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to happen i mean i'm going to have to play well is not going to have been for me and i just play well fight hard like i did last year and and hopefully these will i mean it will be good

for me and i'll be the better player out there. former world number one dinara soften the however continues to struggle the russian and the u.s. open in the opening round of to go in down to danielle home to give us six three six four. more schools from the women's through all the two thousand and four on or off of us even twelve probably broke a sweat in the first six one six two we know so well from belarus also through his fellow russian at least at the bottom of all had the better old swede johan the larsson while ukraine's i don't know but became better the shaven one three cents and also on the opening days in those williams defeated i bet there's been six wants. moving on to football landing the russian premier league bottom sides have lodged a complaint about the refereeing in monday's one male defeat at the siberian signed up questioning the panel to cost them at least a point referee alexander tickle by pointing to the spot four minutes into the

second how. fell in the area the midfielder converted the spot to make himself want turned out to be the only goal of the game so he also claimed they should have been awarded a penalty later in the match by the referee doing their claims. while just a day before the summer transfer window closes spartak moscow last to play is to the english premier league the red why it's reached an agreement to sell their current captain martyn geonic to birmingham the thirty one year old czech republic the found there will evolve to six as the club and. cools as going on they want to be a loan deal to toulon hamp the gratian will be hoping for a better time at spurs than striker. also moved from spartak two years ago but has failed to establish a permanent place in the paragraph starting lineup. in the meantime javier

mascherano was officially unveiled as a new barcelona player on monday the twenty six year old dodging time midfield completing his. reported twenty four million dollars from liverpool to join the catalogue on a four year contract must get on i will take away just something to the tune of a hundred and forty thousand dollars a week. it will be wrong for me to think i come here to play in every single game i feel great respect was the players that have achieved so much here with us the positions i mean bill to play out along with three world champion players that are already i want to see everything. for me it's the greatest joy to be able to grow up and learn from and be among those and i will enjoy playing with them a great deal. of what's going on to the basketball world championships now where the usa have been given a fast true test in their third preliminary stage contrast the. value scaping defeat against and then inspired brazil scored as reports. usa top gun

kevin durant's ready to go and so was brazil and phoenix suns star leander barbosa both teams not easy wins in their two previous contests and we pick up the action two minutes into the first quarter duran carrying this korean level their early on the transition back applause the foul and then a three pointer to keep the us alive because brazil meant business from the start how about this baseline drive from were both still in the first alan garcia brazil from a long way into kevin love response at the other end but the u.s. still lost the opening period by six second quarter brazil still hot from behind the arc mark use of a nice used makes it in one point game while the rest again doing a bit of everything to keep the u.s. in the ballgame nobody asked which is very close in turkey there was a pretty reverse lay up closer to a point late in the second to the third quarter we go in brazil not slowing down one bit barbosa streets around does many baby and denise's provide the beach on the brain. and the other ran guess what the rancho with the baseline cut and the flies

to put us a buff buy for are both say actually shot three for thirteen from downtown but doing this one to get his teammates up on their feet and it was the same story in the final friendly us trying to pull away but brazil kept making crucial shots to keep close with less than a minute to go chauncey billups plays it in and gets foul to make the five point game but again brazil considine just two one with three seconds left marcel and wait to get out and goes to the line to shoot two he misses the first and then intentionally misses the second guess the rebound bobo also goes for the five but it ends out and the u.s. tank gone forward to a point where the media are two. in the meantime boxing champ and the likely goals as russian giant they go i well it has turned out they want to know how to find him they are great and heavyweight was speaking ahead of his bout with american shannon briggs the brother had approached bello if and fellow russian alexander by the. as

well as britain's david haye but none of them agreed so with that evolves the w.b.c. belt will in stabs to have them to the ring against a former champion braids the match will take place in hamburg on october the sixteenth embraces hopes to make it stick with jobs. those. who want you. for. your sins. schools that do not. use this is. not a modern city. and formerly active tom cruise has taken some time off from hollywood to enjoy some real live death defying action although all moved from the stands at the latest event on the professional bull riding to the american superstar might

have developed a liking for bull racing off to escaping a fierce back in his latest film life in a day and will spot of in california watching a forty day a day bills falling on the deal live astride these raging beasts all you need to do is stay in the so for eight seconds in the championship round which is these are the seven as only one cowboy managed to come out on top little boy lost in maya securing his fare for victory over the season that spans thirty one stops across america however his feet have been matched by a strain and banjos with a preliminary round not only did he be the boss sir but also made everybody off by a celebrate three downs. now this is for the moment coming up shortly as the wild weather with the main headlines at the top of the hour.

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