the last vegas style resort closer to a major city russia last year allowing only four areas to operate casinos in remote parts of the country. well we talked to political scientist a purchased law from the con off and get his take on some of the most pressing issues concerning russia issues ranging from iran's first nuclear power to alleged russian arms dealer viktor boot but interview is coming up next stay with us. 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 late 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 right. 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 good fuel will be taken river. so it is a 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 until it is the really first to build a nuclear power station 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 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 sayings 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 he west 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 napsylate not the station isn't 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. hand i 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 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 publicist's 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 capability moving on august has been a successful moth 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 the. citizens of dozens of countries for dissipative the chechen war and of course these kind of activity it's based on. international terror actions are still there. so it is a very difficult job for sure. the strategy of 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 every ality 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 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 financing. weapons are there. and 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 us it's illegal and that it's politically motivated so do you think this a new thorn is it a big enough issue. actually i'm not sure i understand the issue since americans

have not provided any effectual data so i really don't 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 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 who 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 and as for the russian reaction first of all. russian citizens. americans accuse. circling. so the question is why why america. why they want him. and so on and so forth she is 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 is something. we sure 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. for coming into the future. what makes a mechanical engineer and almost pioneer open a book in recent years most in the media to children flag. day here on alt.

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the little military facade washington is accused of an incomplete departure from iraq as thousands of troops still remain in the thirty first withdrawal deadline. to provide training and support but many americans will result in more casualties. and. to wipe out a village in eastern india as the locals fall to commit suicide if they don't get government help three hundred people on food. to. gain momentum he's proposed building on las vegas style it was all major city russia last year allowing only four areas to operate in remote parts of the country . time now for a look at the latest the world of sports with the top. a

long welcome to the sports news on 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 something a is knocked out in the first. while the u.s. has survived the fast a real tast of the world basketball championships beating brazil just by two. and bottom side c.b. to blame their referee for their defeat at three in the 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. feel much more strong. how guys have yeah if you play matches you feel like 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 to try and 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 i feel. you know eighty percent better than it is five 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 all you throw excuses and everything else out of the window no i if i decide to play them it's up to me to give a one hundred percent order 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 analyze it every day there's 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 beating line brian roman soling meanwhile they did all five sets to edge out all strain andras high 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 sat. now on the women's side of the draw no problems while defending champion kim clijsters sole goal 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 you have to prepare for the open up and to the forwards in time you know it's obvious you get my game by. just to come out there and you know defending my time but i've never been this mission that. someone said to goodness colony fast. if you don't want to i'm one of the. six. elsewhere american melanie deen will reach the quilter's at 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 munson your own story and mine was last year so now it's like ok everyone just expects me to do that because ideally last year but that does necessarily mean that it's going to happen i mean i'm going

to have to play well is not going to happen and play well fight hard like i did last year and and hopefully. i'm going to be good for me and i'll be the better player out there. former world number one dinara safina however continues to struggle the russian and the u.s. open in the opening round of to go in down to danielle have to go six three six four. more schools from the women's through all the two thousand and four on or off . twelve hardly broke a sweat in the first six was sixty we know or good so well from belarus also through his fellow russian only sixty bonobo had the better old swede johan the larsson while ukraine's i don't know but overcame a bit of the show tonight in three sets and also on the opening day even as williams defeated but i bet it has been six one six four. moving on to football and in the russian premier league bottom side c b you have lodged a complaint about the refereeing in monday's one male defeat at the siberian signed

up questioning the penalty that cost them at least a point and referee alexander pointed to the spot four minutes into his alcohol. fell in the area the midfielder converted the spot to kick himself the walk turned out to be the only goal of the game to be also claimed they should have been awarded a penalty later in the match by the referee way the way that 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 captain martin geonic to birmingham the thirty one year old czech republic the founder will leave after six years at the club and. collecting calls is going on they want to loan deal to told him gration will be hoping for a better time at spurs that striker. also moved from spartak two years ago but has failed to establish a permanent place in harry redknapp starting line up. in the meantime javier

mascherano was officially unveiled as a new barcelona player on monday the twenty six year old dodging time midfielder completing his reported twenty four million dollar move from liverpool to join the catalogs 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 would be wrong for me to think i come here to play in every single game i feel great players that have achieved so much with the positions i mean bill to play i belong to three world champion players that are already. for me it's the greatest joy to be able to grow up and learn from and be among those i will enjoy playing with him agreed to go. on to the basketball world championships now where the usa have been given a fast track to asked in their preliminary stage contrast the n.b.a.'s young stars badly escaping defeat against and inspired brazil scored as 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 their two previous contests and we pick up the action two minutes into the first quarter demand carrying this korean level there early on the transition back 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 from where ball was so 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 after game 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 gossip to a point late in the second to the third quarter we go in brazil not going down one bit barbosa streets around does many baby and the nieces provide the beach on the

brain. and the other and guess what the rancho with the baseline cut and the flies to put us a 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 train the u.s. 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 wins out and the u.s. sang gone for it to a point where. our team. in the meantime boxing champ and the likely goals as russian giant they go i will if i stand 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 al the go brother had approached bellow it and fellow russian alexander

by the. you know as well as brit these days we hate 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 form of w b o champion braids the match will take place in hamburg on october the sixteenth embraced hoekstra make it stick with job. it's no secret. police want you. for. your sins. just. 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 fourteen day all 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 easier said then as only one cowboy managed to come out on top local boy lost in miles securing his failed 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 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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