pressing issues concerning russia from iran's first nuclear power plant to alleged russian arms dealer victor boot and that interview is coming up next here on r.t. . today we are joined by a 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 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 fuel will be taken away by russia 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. as you may know russia was the first to build a nuclear power station which is the first to build a nuclear power station in in the middle east which i think is so important. if you follow the reactions of the major countries or 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 sayings 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 m.p.u. 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 absolutely not this 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 this. don't like to stress that. russia being very critical of iran naught really 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. of 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 bomb they want to keep ability moving on august has been a successful month for the 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 activity

it's 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 you know all the g.'s 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 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 it 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 has financing. weapons are there. and courses for terrorism are created. almost daily by in al killing people for example there are killing civilians in afghanistan by the international coalition because 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 the federal. or local authorities operations. sometimes increase resistance

you know the. women who were blowing up themselves in mosco subway were the widows of the. terrorist activists killed in the northern caucasus so. it's not very 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 your 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 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 who is going on and of course there is an american political pressure there just to help you 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 a russian citizen in tyler. which americans accused of some wrongdoing say the colombia. they sold 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. asking questions if a russian court would decide that someone 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 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.

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top stories this hour on r.t. the u.s. is poised to officially hand iraq's security over to local forces as the last of america's combat troops have left the country but about fifty thousand will remain to train local security forces. a severe two year drought as the three hundred families in a village in eastern india desperate for help. they'll commit mass suicide rather than starve to death if government aid doesn't arrive soon. after russia limited gambling to four remote regions casinos there have failed to attract business that's prompted investors to stake the future of gambling on a popular tourist destination the black sea. well those are all top stories this hour i'll be back with more for us in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime unions next with the latest sports these.

good 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 from your league if you missed any early even if you didn't get your fill with. 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 inability to even 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 and bass player sign terms in english premier league sports parted ways with the current captain martin. thirty one year old czech republic defender moved to birmingham while the grade school keeper. is on his way to. creation will be hoping for a better time. but. 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 alongside darren bent would give some one of the most attack forces in a moment. neither of them will be seeing rubio on the other end of the pitch to mystically 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 in two thousand and eight for a british transfer record fifty million dollars his price this time twenty five. milan is gone thanks to all 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 who to our 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 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 the majority i have twenty five years' experience with club teams because i've won syriana and i don't think there's any tougher relief than van't but there is no greater challenge than to coach a national team has been receiving such requests but i chose. 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's 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 the us for another. two the possible world championships we go or team usa have been given their 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 there early on the transition back to 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 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 a morning game while dramatic game 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 closer to a point late in the second to the third quarter we go in brazil not falling down one bit barbosa streets around does many baby pieces provide the beach on the brain . and the other ran guess who do rancho with the baseline cut them the flight to book usa powered by four 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 grand 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 my celebrations 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 media 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 see why young pitching and what 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. eleven. chewy. eleven.

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