the black sea coast. well we know talk to political side is a british law from the called off and get his take on some of the most pressing issues concerning russia the issues ranging from iran first nuclear power plant to that of alleged russian arms dealer viktor boot the interview is coming up next stay with us. today we are joined by a mr vs just love it nico north 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 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 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 weapons grade uranium. and all the fuel will be provided by russia and all the waste 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. and 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. the russian government things the law. 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 yeah absolutely not this station isn't capable of producing

a 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 i like to stress that. russia being very critical of iran north korea lee following 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 as far 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 month for the 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. as. 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 two eliminating causes for terrorism and causes are of course different they are economic causes. and say programs to provide jobs for nothern 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 now and are you expecting to see a fall extermination of terrorism is that even every ality a possibility well fool 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. courses for terrorism or created. or almost daily by. 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 something of that thing there were in smaller scale happens in the northern caucasus. federal. or local

authorities operations. sometimes increase resistance you know the. women who were blowing up themselves. where were the widows of the. terrorist activists killed in the northern caucasus so. it's not that easy that's we want to 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 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 the reason 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 thailand 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 that. it is not clear what's going on and of course there is an american political pressure there just to help me understand here 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. there is the russian citizen in tyler. which americans accused of some wrongdoings of colombia. they sold the question is why why america. why they want him. and so on and so forth he's a russian citizen. and of course the russian government. asking questions if russian court would decide that someone american doing something wrong in colombia should be arrested in thailand there 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. the band. come. on come on come on. this street still keeps its secrets but denounced time to move feel that the soviet five

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hello and welcome to the sports news in r t here is what's coming up on the program the u.s. open gets under way with them a down going to mentor about cruising through to the second stage but something that is knocked out in the first. while the u.s. survived the fast a real 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 who was made to go home from four to 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 confident

feel much more from. our guys. if you play makes you feel like something in the moment i don't feel like i don't feel like i play like him play. maybe depends how in my mentions counting how if i think how many matches and when then i can feeling when i can say you can't play very good and play like top ten player in. the two thousand and three years so how do you want it was also a window on these twenty eight 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 i do five or six weeks ago that's for sure. it's going the way. you know and to be to be honest once you decide to play i think you throw

you throw all excuses and everything else out of the window so 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 it'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 right were. urging fedorov the number two seed is also through to the second stage up the beach in line bryan roman soling meanwhile they did all five sets to edge out all straight and andres 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 set. now on the women's side of the draw no problems while defending champion came close to us overall 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 i just prepare for the open up and be with them for it's time you know it's obvious you get my game time 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'm one of them. for a while. 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 happen for me and i will fight hard my last year and and hopefully the i mean it will be good for me and i'll be the

better player out there. well now you want to narrow soften the however continues to struggle the russian accents the opening round often building down to danielle have to give us six three six four. more schools from the women's draw all the two thousand and four on or off of a seated twelve hardly broke 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 three sets and also on the opening dangerous williams defeated i bet there's been six want successful. 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 penalty that cost them at least a point referee alexander tickle by pointing to the spot four minutes into the sack

and how. failing the area the midfielder converted the spot to make himself the world turned out to be the only goal of the game to be also claimed they should have been eluded 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 camped on the march in geonic to birmingham the thirty one year old czech republic the founder will evolve to six at the club and see people back to cools is going on they want to loan deal to toulon family the gratian will be hoping for a better time at spurs that striker. also a move from spartak two years ago but has failed to establish a permanent place in the paragraph 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 dollars from liverpool to join the catalogue on a four year contract must get on i will take away just something to chew over a hundred and forty thousand dollars a week. and. 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 the positions i mean bill to play i belong to three world champion players that are already i want 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. on to the basketball world championships now where the usa have been given a fast track task invest that preliminary stage contrast the n.b.a.'s young stars ballet escaping defeat against and inspire brazil scored as there are reports now. us 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 become the action two minutes into the first quarter duran carrying this korean level the early on the transition bucket blows the foul and then a three pointer to keep the us alive because brazil meant business from the start how about this baseline drive former ball 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 marcus mini series makes it in one point game one of the rafa game doing a bit of the everything to keep the u.s. in the ballgame nobody asked which is very close in turkey though a pretty reverse lay up gossip 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 the nieces provide the beach on the brain. and the other ran guess what the ranch owner with the baseline cut and the flies to put usa pop by for barbosa 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 found to make the five point game but again brazil considine just two one with three seconds left most celebrated 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. sangam forward to a point where the media are two. and the mean time boxing champ and the likely goals as russian giant may go i well 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 brother had approached a low if and fellow russian alexander by the. you know as well as break 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 former champion braids the match will take place in hamburg on october the sixteenth embraced hopes to make it stick with job. those. who want to thank you. for. your sins. just. because this. usually is. not the city. and formally active tom cruise has taken some time off from hollywood to enjoy some real live death defying action although only 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 of the 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 maya securing his fare for victory over the season that spans the fates who won 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 or a downs. and that's it for the moment coming up shortly is the wild weather with the main headlines at the top of the hour.

the last u.s. combat troops make their way over the iraqi border but thousands remain past the deadline in what critics say is an attempt to rebranding the campaign. after a two year drought and villages in eastern india say if government aid doesn't arrive soon they'll commit suicide rather than die a slow death. and going for the russia could soon boast its own las vegas on the black sea coast as remote as prove a bad bet. mania overcomes russia's top brass as president medvedev catches a politician tweeting away during a session of the state council.