today's news and the week's top stories swati tens of thousands rally in central moscow protesting against itself of the spawns parliamentary poll estimate that it is promising so we can conclude forms some of which really underway neither to extend to. syria is not in a spiral of violence with three to four million suicide blasts in the mascot's countries also struggling on the mounting pressure from the west. and the weak often north korean ruler kim jong il his youngest son is appointed as the new supreme leader state t.v. showed thousands openly weeping on the streets news death was announced in the

secretive states and neighbors and i heard. a former head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog talks to r.t. about how kim jong il's death might disturb the already shaky stability in the region. well i'm joined by mr hans blix from stockholm mr blix charity international atomic agency for energy agency for sixteen years and was the head of the u.n. inspections team in iraq prior to the second iraqi war mr blix it's great to have you with us sir now i'd like to start with i say latest news came young male who during whose seventeen year old rule north korea has emerged as

a nuclear state has died of a heart failure now his son is the next national leader what do we know about him are things going to stay pretty much the same or worse where general security under threat how vigorously will he have push for nuclear weapons. well we are generally rather eat dinner and about the. architecture of the power building new in north korea. but the change has been underway for some time but of course with kim your new. rules didn't figure is. there's always a risk to in such a structure that can be changes. i think it is important that the outside world. does not make them. because they will feel themselves in a situation of some weakness and then the threats from the outside. make

them provocative for the last few years iran was number one nuclear enemy for the united states do you expect maybe a shift of interest from iran to north korea or does a country need to have oil as well to justify that much attention from the west no i think both places are of great importance in the north korean situation first of all we know that within artillery range for all of north korea so even without nuclear weapons the situation there would be a risky one and if north korea were provoked at him. there could be a risk also of encouraging their. forces in japan. i don't see that now. but that would be a risk in the case of iran. on the other hand we see that already. they're working in iran to develop it capacity we enrich uranium has increased threat ten

shows enormously and there is a great arms race going on and we hear who walks in israel and in the united states saying that they should bomb iran others say that they are all the nuclear installations are and that it is meaningless. to the presidential candidates says that he thinks the world for regime change but i don't think he explained whether he would like the a regime change to be the half. or the. but holidays are the oh yes sir this is very some similar to what happened in iraq. could we be seeing the new iraqi scenario unfolding here as far as iran goes well there are some similarities in the. escalation of the language in the threats.

that we had in the case of iraq and now have in case of iran on the other hand we must remember that in case of iraq they talked about. weapons that in fact did not exists today they are talking about iranian intentions may or may or may not exist. but the difference is that iran certainly has a lot of nuclear installations iraq did not have that but in your own opinion is iran of any imminent threat to any nation at this point. i don't think so really you. give as good through that job the nearly doubt has come out in the very a very bad language about israel wiping israel off the map of the world but i think most people would think that he is really talking to the arab street he

has one of the disturbing lies arab states that have supported the united states. iraq iran does not have a track record of aggression in fact it was iraq that attacked iran so i don't see an immediate threat from iran but i can understand that israelis are nervous but the u.s. and israel maintain the latest i ate a report provides very strong evidence that iran is seeking any nuclear weapon. here's the question do you think iran has a nuclear weapon. no i think in nobody really thinks they have a nuclear weapon and i think one must read that report rather carefully what they say is that they see some evidence that could be explained if they were dealing with a weapon or a mere weapon and that there seems on the other evidence that is very hard to

explain unless they were working towards a weapon but they have not said that they established that iraq or actually intends to do it so they might stop short of their weapons well judging from your experience how shit this intelligence to be treated and how far can actually i a go in checking the credibility of such intelligence. well they do it or not the average sit here in the iran and the it's a big country and then in places can be hidden so i think there are limits to what they can find out but that doesn't really affect what the outside world should do in my view they must continue to talk to iran and to persuade iran that they will not need any nuclear weapon nor do they need any enrichment capability i'm here senator pearce says the u.k.

and france and germany started such talks and they have been expanded to also russia and china and the united states are participants in it and i think that is the wise road to go they have offered iran some good things and i think they could offer more things there is also on the way to a big conference about a nuclear weapon free zone in the middle east which will take place in helsinki next year. and all originally the idea was to get the israel to do away with this nuclear weapons but i think if this conference were to try those to do away with the israeli nuclear weapons and the uranium enrichment capability and get the other states in the middle east to come along then there might be a more hopeful future you know many believe that iran actually may be willing to get to a point when it's able to produce

a nuclear weapon but doesn't actually do it unless its security establishment is that a likely strategy. it is possible we know from the case of israel that they do not admit that they have nuclear weapons they say that they will not be the first three introduce nuclear weapons in the middle east maybe one day the iranians will say that we also will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons in the middle east and maintain the situation ambiguity. but i think it would be better if all the parties came to the conclusion that they should have neither nuclear weapons nor a richmond capability and israelis would be more secure. there would be a warning now that says saudi arabia and egypt might also go for richmond's and iran certainly should be nervous that these earliest might bomb them just as israel did iraq in the 1980's and syria in two thousand and seven what is the

likelihood actually that israel may be at this point now that it has isolated itself from turkey also from egypt it has disappointed sarkozy it has disappointed obama very strong rhetoric going on back and forth between iran and israel what is the likelihood that it has become more dangerous and maybe it will actually show for the first time that it us has it does have nuclear arsenal and use it probably to bomb iran. well it's hard to judge i mean some people think that this kind of language and threats by the areas individuals in israel and also by hawks in the night that it was the iranians from their present course however i am somewhat doubtful that one. way from. i think carrots are better. that they can gain quite

a lot by staying away from. saying there will be a point where i will be convincing israel not to use nuclear arsenal i think the israelis are very well aware of their game its weapons and even when they talk about bombing iran there is nothing to suggest that they will use nuclear weapons for it and i very much that if anything came to a war that no nuclear weapons would be used and it would also be a very bad if they attacked their civilian nuclear reactors that iran. but any kind of attack i think is. in the middle east. sitting in to twiddle their thumbs they will have a counter attack of course. in the united states in the war so it's a terrible fire that they are playing with. and one last question why do you think

iran is so reluctant to accept all the incentives offered to them by the international community is it just not simply enough. well it may be a question of pride also i think that the western states that i've talked to them some silent sometimes has sounded rather high handed they have said that if you will suspend your to richmond to we may be willing to sit down with you and that is a fairly sort of neo colonialists neil colonialist told they're a proud people many others are and i think that the. they will have to talk to them say important partner for important states state that they are. and to discuss with them what would they gain by abandoning enrichment they can gain a lot and i do not see that they have much advantage on the richmond because they

can import the fuel they need from russia or from other places they have only two nuclear power reactors this country sweden where i'm standing now we have ten and we imported richer a new message. it is cheaper so i don't see iran would loose very much by doing away with it they may be a lot of pride in this mr blix thank you very much for this interview. this was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial disaster and now it had been abandoned in a condition where it had become

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today's news on the week's top stories from the tens of thousands rally in central moscow protesting against the results of this month's parliamentary poll. promising sweeping political reforms some of which already on the way to state duma. syria is not to the spot of. forty four killed in suicide blasts in damascus countries also struggling on the mounting pressure from the west and the arab league. we call for more korean leader kim jong il dies his youngest son is appointed as the new supreme leader state t.v. showed thousands of openly weeping on the streets of the kim's death was announced by the secretive states neighbors went on high alert. from other joins us next for the sports news.

hello welcome to sport on artsy comments are you from the russian capital with me or i'm on calls for of the following are just some of the stories we're covering for you today. losing streak over spartak moscow finally gets a win and the whole match against visiting out on guard. speeding through another title twenty eleven all round speed skating a world champion the bonds call but if he wins the russian side all ahead of european championship in hungary. three in a row that's the olympic gold set by the queen of the pole vault time of the champion given i the symbiote. let's start with ice hockey and the kontinental hockey league where struggling puts up an impressive fight against the clowns in

a losing effort the most courageous men escaping slovakia with an overtime win thanks to a collage effort by patrick zach prince and live for the final score as love having now lost three straight and sit nineteenth in the table plants on the other hand have extended their win streak to four games and are ranked third overall league leaders scott meanwhile have lost three nothing against a top five teams in a men's in a tough road outing in bella bruce second string goalies for both teams in that one . and staying with ice hockey and they kate shell where sports talk finally ended a disappointing run of four straight defeats after a beating i have on guard three one right here in moscow constantine puts up of has all the details. spark dot com learned the terrifying one with dan defeats in eleven riches and surprisingly traded their captain i like the gallery to our more choice before round draft pick just before the encounter while on guard last two

previous games in shootouts both sides also place their head coaches a recent spark bags under a sedan and go and write him a sunni and from on guard while looking for their first wins behind the mansion this season the red and white stopped h.l. statistics only conceded goals one hundred sixty however it was the host could to believe just five minutes into the game so far so fast i think somebody you call him a canny bastard goaltender one nothing after the opening period three minutes after the restart and sport that doubled their dorms if you got me foul of where they were a shot from the right circle and involves a brother because i spun around to let the second is a meter inside seemed to be confused but managed to jump back into the game seven seconds before the second intermission as alex on the bubble for directed the bus with the bus they want us to tend to want to support us after forty minutes however in the decisive period the red and whites managed to withstand the one learns

attacks and then one more next season one can get a breakaway and couldn't use them to their ministers had pulled the goaltender and that sealed the final score three one they have a very good club over there i think was playing well in that you know we have set the player best games that are played and that's all we have to get back because i wish to god everything depends on us if we continue to play the way we did tonight i'm sure we can soon forget about the disappointing performances of that though it's an honor and suffered their third straight defeat while sparkler one second time in twelve manchester to end their four manchu losing streak sitting nine points behind a play of sports because i'm out of a party. twenty eleven all round world and european champion speed skating events has defended his national title in moscow now vancouver olympics silver medalists colbert of took an early lead in the three day event at for finishing first in the

fifteen hundred meter race despite posting at third best results and sprints the following day the champion still retained his lead by winning the five k. run cemented his triumph on the final day of the competition with a convincing victory in ten kilometers events called it is now gearing up for the european championships which will take place in hungary at the beginning of january . but. i've successfully completed an intensive training competition period and i'm in good condition i won't put him sponsor all time so everything is fine and i like the way things are going i'm very pleased with the russians. now i'm going to train for the european championships which will be you know durant so apart from the rivals badly from the title the weather may also create some difficulties with the big maci guarantee that now and following this summer's a third european triumph the russian women seem to have started their first training camp as they target their mates in the olympic gold at next summer's games

now russia qualifies the london swans it's twelve by winning this year's european championships in poland in july and while the team has a thirty minute leading three consider mental goals they've only managed to bronze medals in three of them pick appearances. as a mixture of proven stars and up and coming talents to choose from a twenty five year old shooting guard. is in the running for the european player of the year award as is better and censor muddiest upon about all the russians are expected to take at least another bronze in london. the gold medals. and in the meantime russian pole vaulter get an ace in by is also preparing for the london games that's what our year old aims to become the first female track and field athletes away in three straight olympic golds and

a legend in her sports she set a world record of the two thousand and four of the banks in athens and then became the first woman to clear the five metre mark at the beijing games four years later but since that achievement the russians for has zips although her vision hasn't wavered isn't by what has been training hard in her adopted home of malta choro and is going all out for that historic third gold in london there that she didn't cut it up i knew that if i became the first woman to jump muslims five meters then i would be making you fanatics history i will always be remembered and then achievement all of the other women who managed to do this will always be number two to a certain degree and being for instance paris is always good and i'm really happy that my name is forever in the history of the track and field that despite my cheated once i don't consider myself to be a. new female track and field athlete has managed to become an individualist champion in three successive games this is my i want to become

a legend i cannot be with. music same and plenty of skiing and the chance to win sixty thousand a year olds things could hardly get any better for some of the winter sports maine says they hit the peaks in northern italy the biannual giant slalom sprint competition saw the likes of olympic gold medalist excellence pencil and bodie miller go airborne on a fast course which you can better start of the day but for participants were eliminated after each round american ted ligety was among the last man standing and his liver an absolute heartbreaker to local favorite giovanni first saudi it's out in finnish just two hundreds of a second behind getting watching the two thousand and six of the big champion clinched a prize the defending champion from. thousand and nine frenchmen cyprian of the show are one third. and while football remains the king of sports in africa plenty of uganda's help athletes have been choosing volleyball as their new competition of choice lately the pearl of africa now has every reason to root for

its national volleyball team as the sport rises to prominence. in the country's capital bringing together participants of all ages and while sizable tournaments are host to domestically the national team rarely gets its a call continental neighbors what's with so much enthusiasm for the game it's not a long shot to see the national team finally get into its first global event but once the third season the all african games are on the agenda for now could this be that seem to be to the world championships and summer olympics of the not so distant future. moving on to the long distance once it's all in big games where the hosts are feeling the pressure of the world on their shoulders then saturates heather fell among those expected to get a podium finish again after a silver during the two thousand and eight beijing olympics that's when eight year old faces plenty of difficulties on her quest for the big gold to miss the

competition is fierce as only two spots in the national team are available why women are ranked high enough to make the squad right now the new rules which combine the shooting and running disciplines have also slowed down the preparations of many athletes the challenge of making it to the games as formidable as winning in london but still sees those domestic rivalries as a competitive advantage. it's incredibly tough in britain and the great part is because it's a tough one if you know you've got a really good team but that guy will have a good chance of. getting a medal at the gates and that's what we were about as a country competing especially in tough and we put a great history. there to get get to. made up while over a new zealand's a new shock but still are is continuing his rise to the it's all this let it's world jacksonville will be taken for in its one to twelve games in london after taking the junior circuit by storm the seventeen year old has already

a mass numerous world records as he moves up through the age groups and the youngest ever male junior champion has given up school for now to focus on his sporting him dish and. the my room with logo and the princely sum will mean i'm not going to have much i would choose do it when i'm older some as we do now and my cause would make the school. there were up there with you into your misery is that that's all we have signed for right now but don't forget that some of the story sin here are also available on our you tube channel at artsy sports news so check it out so when you get a chance thanks for watching. witnesses . to history in the making. testimony.

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