bandcamp last year allowing only four areas to operate the scene has made lots of the country. we talk now to political scientists which is lovely going off and 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 i think if you is coming up next. today we are joined by a mr vetter sloven he could not he is a political scientist and he's also the founder and president of the polity foundation thank you very much for joining us 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 a. 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 cute if you will will be taken away by russia so it is safe to sell it 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 and 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 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 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 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 no

absolutely not this station isn't capable of producing weapons grade uranium iranian nuclear program which worries americans and 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 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 publicists 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 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 it's 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 participating 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 to eliminating causes for terrorism and causes or 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 idiology

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 then they were looking for causes of terrorism in iraq what it looks 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. courses for terrorism are created. almost daily by in zero killing people for example in afghanistan killing civilians in afghanistan by the international coalition cause more people joining join 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 in most schools where they 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 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. viktor would should not be extradited but the court 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 you are 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 entirely. american is accused. columbia. the question is why. why they want him. and so on and so forth he's a russian citizen. of course the russian government. asking questions if russian court would decide that some american doing something wrong in colombia should be arrested in thailand i think the american government could also have some questions well why it is something. we sure is of great interest to

russia and why the russian courts a russian courtroom should make such a decision thank you very much for your time thank you. to the future. what makes a mechanical engineer i'm almost pioneer open a book in recent years most in the majors.

military first saw that washington is accused of an incomplete departure from iraq because thousands of troops to remain past august thirty first withdrawal deadline servicemen are staying to provide training and support but many americans fear it would result in more casualties. a two year drought threatens to wipe out a village and eastern india as locals to commit suicide if they don't get government help three hundred people are demanding food and employment. and russia's gambling zones phone an underground dance again event to authorities propose building and lots of very old closer to a major city. banned gambling last year allowing only four areas to operate can see and most of the country. for the world of sports with the toddy.

hello and welcome to the sports news an r t here is what's coming up on the program the u.s. open gets under way with them a down going to mental cruising through to the second stage but soften its knocked out in the first. while the u.s. has survived the fast a real task of the world basketball championships beating brazil just by two. and bottom side seed beads blamed their referee for their defeat at three in their russian premier league. but we begin with tennis as the u.s. open got underway at flushing meadows in new york and may go either way down safely through into the second round the russian opening his campaign with a straight sets win over a local man michael russell 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 we're much more. much much stronger. our guys have played 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. time. maybe depends how in my mate she is 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 ten player. the two thousand and three years to do what it was also a window on these twenty eight but i think raising fostering one step on the back of the american however also getting a bit testy when else about his current shape. you know eighty percent better than you do five or six weeks ago that's for sure. it's gone the way. you know it and to be to be honest once you decide to play i think you

throw the throw excuse and everything else out of the window no i if i decide to play them it's up to me to give one hundred percent so. it's not something i really want to. discuss too much from from this point forward it's something that's there . you know i'm not going to you know want to go every day is not a perfect it's not perfect but it's far it's going the right way. urging federal the number to save is also through to the second stage up to be lying brian roman so meanwhile they did all five sets to edge out all strain andras hide them our six four and they decide that 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 to the belgian had to fly back home full of down in the second to get three of the

grid to six love seven five guys does the final score in that one. for these last few weeks and just prepare for the open up and be with them 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 fast. you're going on one of the i want to have for a while six. elsewhere american melanie dean reached the quota as a blushing 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 enough to play well if i

hardly had last year and and hopefully. i mean it will be good for me and i'll be the better player out there. formal world number one dinara soften i however continues to struggle the russian accent the opening round of to go in down to danielle have 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 as well hardly broke a sweat in the first six was sixty 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 in three sets and also on the opening days in those williams defeated i bet there's been six wants. moving on to for the 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 house. fell in the area the midfielder converted the spot to make himself for what 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 lost two players to the english premier league the us why it's reached an agreement to sell their current camped on the march in geonic to birmingham the thirty one year old czech republic the found there will evolve to six at the club and. cools is going on they want a loan deal to tool in hand the gratian will be hoping for a better time at spurs than striker. also a move from spartak two years ago but has failed to establish a permanent place. 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 one of the players that have achieved so much here with us to positions i mean bill to play on the longer three world champion players that are already i want to see everything that. 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 him a great deal. on to the basketball world championships now where the usa have been given a fast true test and their preliminary stage contrast the n.b.a.'s young stars ballet escaping defeat against an inspired brazil scored as there are reports now. 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 there are two previous contests and we pick up the action two minutes into the first quarter duran carrying this korean a little their early on the transition back to applause the foul and then a three pointer to keep the u.s. alive because brazil meant business from the start how about this baseline drive former ball so still in the first alan garcia brazil from long range came in love responded the other ran 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 again 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 reversal a gusset to a point late in the second to the third quarter we going to brazil not slowing down one bit barbosa streets around does many baby and beasties provide the beach on the brain. and you know i ran guess what the rancho with the baseline cut and the flush

to put us a bike for are both sexually shot three for thirteen from downtown but doing this one to get his teammates out on their feet and it was the same story in the final train the us trying to pull away but brazil kept making crucial shots to keep clones with less than a minute to go chauncey billups plays it in and gets felt to make the five point game but again brazil considine just two one with three seconds left marcella where 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 winds out and the u.s. tank gone forward to a point where. the arsenal are two. in the meantime boxing champ and the likely goals as russian giant big eye well it has turned down 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 ball with and fellow russian alexander. by the afghan as well as britain's david hague but none of them agreed

so with that evolves the w.b.c. belt will in stabs to have them to the ring against the former w.b. champion braids the match will take place in hamburg on a clover the sixteenth embraces hoekstra make it stick with jobs. it's no secret. the much so for. instance. schools that do not. use these are. not among the city. and formally 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 the day and will spot of in california watching forty days of day bills falling on the deal live astride these raging beasts all you need to do is stay in the settle for eight seconds in the championship round which is easy to set as only one cowboy managed to come out on top local boy lost in maya securing his favor victory over the season that spans thirty one stops across america however his feet have been matched by a strain and banjos in a preliminary round not only did he be the boss sir but also made everybody lost by a celebrate or a downs. 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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military facade washington is accused of an incomplete departure from iraq as final scenes of troops still remain past the august thirty first withdrawal deadline. robbers have broken into moscow's prosecutor's office targeting dozens of safes sparking fears that it could compromise on going legal investigations. and a two year drought for peace to wipe out a village in eastern india has locals about to commit suicide if they don't get government help from. world news and the much more you know watching auti brokaw sing live from moscow welcome to the program.