hello tourist destination all the black sea coast. now we talked to a political scientist a nickel and get his take on some of the most pressing issues concerning russia issues ranging from iran's first nuclear power plant to alleged russian arms dealer victor boot that's 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 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 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 good if you will will be taken away by russia so it is safer so 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 until it was 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 napsylate not the 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. look 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 as far as international terrorism is concerned. 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 thanks 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 two 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 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 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 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 zero killing people for example there are killing civilians in afghanistan by the international coalition cause more people joining joined into 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 they 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 us it's illegal and that it's politically motivated so do you think the sing new thorn is it a big enough issue. actually i'm not sure i understand the issue since 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 was 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 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 just to help you understand it 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 wrongdoing say the colombian. so the question is why why america. 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 and there i think the american government could also have some questions but why it 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. her. mother. her. mother. her. this history still keeps it secret but now it's time to move feel. the soviet saddam's

mceachern seems to me like going to see. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are rooted a. mum.

headlines now i want to see the last of the u.s. combat troops have made their way over the iraqi border but about fifty thousand will remain to train local and security forces that will only be allowed to go on missions at iraq's request. a two year drought has left three hundred families in an indian village on the edge of starvation. they'll commit suicide if government help doesn't arrive soon. proved to be a bad bet for russia limited to gambling for will designated regions which prompted investors to plan building a las vegas style resort in the popular tourist destination the black sea coast. or it well those were our top stories this hour now it's time for all the latest sports with the unit. here the. football teams across europe have

been delving deep into their pockets pray do tell i do love this time of year it's transfer deadline day there's been players moving all across europe monitors asking for more money not getting it we have all the fun in a little moment. great to have your company this is sports today i'm let's take a look at our headlines this hour making moves it's been a busy day of transfer action with big names on the road all over europe. really relief twenty ten world basketball title favorites the usa scrip a victory in their preliminary championship clash against brazil. a net gain we've got all the strikes from the weekend that was in the russian premier league if you

missed any or even if you didn't get your fill with. a little controversy to kick things off with russian premier league beer have lodged an official complaint following their one nil defeat on monday they siberian club's complaint stemming from the referee led to the winner from the penalty spot with. lisa beer argue the last point could make all the difference in the end of the season relegation from the top flight has led to a number of problems for clubs recent years including loss of sponsorship the inability to even pay the year's wages the russian f.a. have yet to come to challenge. the transfer deadline day in the u.k. has seen a couple of russian based players signed terms in english premier league sports parted ways the pairing captain martin. thirty one year old czech republic defender moved to birmingham while the red white school keeper. is on his way to.

creation will be hoping for a better time. public. to establish a permanent place in starting line up. one of those high profile signings of the. day happened in the northeast where sunderland got their hands on galveston. this striker science from french league one club for a fee of eighteen million dollars hit the headlines during the summer's world cup when he scored three goals for ghana as the africans reached the quarter finals the twenty four year old scored thirteen goals in twenty seven league starts for ran last season on alongside darren bent would give some one of the most attack forces in england. neither of them will be seeing rubio on the other end of the pitch domestically next season the brazilian will move to milan from manchester city pending

a medical but to be new has made no secret of his desire to up sticks to italy after an unsettled two year stint the stones he moved in two thousand and eight for a british transfer record fifty million dollars his price this time twenty five. milan is. it's a law of the dutchman previously stated his desire to stay at the san siro but following the slot on that but i have a strong barcelona east now on its way to show twenty seven year old kids who are it is me what i ought but feel the set the world the life recent years with real madrid. japanese football is set for a new start after alberto zucker rooney was unveiled as the country's manager on tuesday the former eventis head has never coached our side of it's lee and will be the sixth foreigner to try his luck in tokyo. of in the amount of influence by the majority i have twenty five years' experience with club teams because i have one

serious and i don't think there is any tougher relief than van't but there is no greater challenge than to coach the national team has been receiving such a question. as i think this team still has so much potential. than vale are still on the lookout for a new manager after bob bradley declared on tuesday he has to stay with the u.s. national team after helping guide the americans to a top group finish of the world cup for the first time in eighteen years bradley was hot property but a proposed move to england is now off the table after signing on with us for another us. to the basketball world championships we go where team usa have been given our first true test in the preliminary stages the n.b.a.'s young guns barely escaping defeat against inspired brazil to meet your support for ports. 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 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 u.s. alive because brazil meant business from the start how about this baseline drive from where bowl so still in the first alan garcia blues brazil from long range 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 a point game while the rant again doing a bit of everything to keep the u.s. in the ballgame nobody asked which is very close in turkey though a pretty reverse lay up constitute a point late in the second to the third quarter we're going to brazil not going down one bit barbosa street songs does many baby and beasties provide the beach on the brain. and you ran guess who do rancho with the bass line cut down the flush to the book 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 brand 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 marcella where to get help and goes to the left to shoot to the misses the first and then intentionally misses the second guess the rebound bobo also goes for the time of the game's out and the u.s. sangam forty two point win maybe most of our team. from basketball to baseball where roger clemens has pleaded not guilty to lying to congress about his use of performance enhancing drugs one of the sport's most prolific pitchers facing charges of making false statements perjury obstruction of congress now the. allegations stem from two thousand and eight congressional testimony when the forty eight year old flatly denied using steroids despite his name appearing on the

mitchell report investigating substance abuse in baseball clemens who's won the league c.-y. young pitching award a record seven times watched his former trainer brian mcnamee teammate on the petite claim he performs and hunts and drugs clemens is facing up to thirty years in prison on a one point five million dollars fine but sentencing guidelines indicate that the rocket will likely spend around fifteen to twenty one months behind bars if they have to. finally let's rewind for another look at each and every strike that find the net in the russian premier league over the weekend it's called school or time. illegibly.

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the last all of the u.s. combat troops have made their way over the. but thousands remain past the deadline and what critics say is an attempt. to use villages in eastern india say if the government doesn't come soon they'll commit suicide rather than. going for the jackpot russia could soon boast its own las vegas on the black sea coast. proved to be a bad bet. becomes a russia's top brass president catches a politician tweeting away during a session at the state council.