eastern. beyond the time to. see. the week's top stories from october tens of thousands rally in central moscow protesting against the results of this month's parliamentary polls estimate that it is promising sweeping political reforms some of which are already on the way it really affected state duma. serious in a spiral of violence with forty four killed in suicide blasts in damascus the country is also struggling under mounting pressure from the west and the arab league. and a week off the north korean leader kim jong il dies youngest son is appointed as the new supremes leader state t.v. showed thousands opening weeping on the streets of. the secretive states neighbors

went on high alert. for the 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 chaired the international atomic agency for energy agency for sixteen years and was the had 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 who seventeen year old rule north korea has emerged as

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

them provocative for the last few years iran was number one nuclear energy 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 here. 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 in. their work in iran to develop it capacity. has increased threat

enormously and there is a great arms race going on. and we hear. the 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 that he thinks for a regime change but i don't think he explained whether he would like to see a regime change to be the half. or the iraq. but also the service is very similar 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 and the threats.

that we had in the case of iraq and now having case of iran on the other hand we must remember that in the case of iraq they talked about. weapons that in fact did not exists. today they are talking about iranian intentions of 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 is true that you are merely daoud has come out in the area very bad language about israel and wiping israel off the map of the world . but i think most people with me think that he is really talking to the arab

street he has wanted to destabilize arab states that have supported the united states. iraq iran does not have a track record of aggression in fact there 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 they might stop short of their weapons well judging from your experience how should this intelligence be treated and how far can actually i a go in checking the credibility of such intelligence well they do are not the every seat here in the iran and the it's a big country and many 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 and if some european states the u.k.

and france and germany started such talks and they have been expanded to also russia 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 what is able to produce

a nuclear weapon but doesn't actually do it unless its security established threatened 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 to 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 you. would be more secure there would be a war and now that say is 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 that carrots are better. that they can gain by

staying away from. saying there will be a point where i will be convincing israel not to use its new 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. very much so that if anything came to a war that no nuclear weapons would be used and it would also be very bad if they attacked their civilian nuclear reactors that iran. but any kind of attack. 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 have talked to them some solid sometimes has sounded rather high handed they have said that if you will suspend your to richmond we may be willing to sit down with you and that is a. neo colonialist told they are a proud people and 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 in richmond 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 all the places they have to look up our reactors this conscious we've been where i'm standing now we have ten and we imported a richer a new message. it is cheaper so i don't see iran would loose a 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. 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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as for stocks on t.v. dot com. week's top stories here on r t tens of thousands rally in central moscow protesting against the results of this month's parliamentary poll cement get it is promising sweeping political reforms some of which are already underway new directive state duma. syria is not in a spiral of violence with forty four killed in suicide blasts in damascus countries also struggling on the mounting pressure from the west and the arab league. and the week after the north korean rule of kim jong il dies his youngest son is appointed as the new supreme leader state t.v. showed thousands openly weeping on the streets of the kim's death was announced by the secretive states labor's went on high alert. sports news with.

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 advance 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 the champion deny the sin by. let's start with ice hockey and the continental hockey league where struggling puts up an impressive fight against outlines in

a losing effort the moscow region man 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 scot meanwhile have lost three nothing against the top five teams in a men's in a tough road outing in bella bruce a second string goal is for both teams in that one. and stay with ice hockey and they can tell where sports finally ended a disappointing run of four straight defeats after beating i have on guard three one right here in moscow concept of has all the details. sport on the route to flying in with ten defeats or you're one of the richest and surprisingly traded a captain began to a move for a fee from drop just before the encounter among two hundred lost two previous games

in a shoot down. sigal to place their head coach is a recent spark some bracy danny and go and write him a sunni and from on guard while looking for their first marines behind the mansion this season the red and white stopped a show statistics only conceded goals one hundred sixty however it was the host could take the lead just five minutes into the game mark so far so fast i think somebody even called a canny bastard goaltender one nothing after the opening period three minutes after the restart and sparkplug doubled their words if you go to me with a wrist shot from the right circle then close brother because i spun around to make the second this a metre inside seemed to be confused but managed to jump back into the game seventeen seconds before the second intermission as i mix on the buckle for a direct in the box with the post they want us to to do one to support after forty minutes how i was in the decisive period the red and whites managed to withstand

the one boards attacks and then one more next season i don't invent a breakaway and couldn't use them to miss visitors 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 you know we have to play our best game so. that's all we have to get back and. 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 it suffered their third story defeat while sparkler one second time in twelve manchester to end their four match losing streak sitting nine points behind a play of sport is a man of thirty. one c. eleven all round the world and european champion speedskating. has defended his national title in moscow now vancouver olympics silver medalists called if took an early night in the three day event at her finishing first in the fifteen hundred

meter race that just. by posting a third best results in sprint 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 in sports or real time so everything is fine and i like the way things are going i'm very pleased with the recent european ships 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 bronte basketball 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 maids 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 tournament leading three consonantal 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 uncensored marias to all the russians are expected to take at least another bronze in london. for. the gold medals. and in the meantime russian pole vaulter unanimous in by is also preparing for the london games that's what a nine year old aims to become the first female track and field athletes away in

three straight olympic golds and a legend in her sports show. set a world record of the two thousand and four olympics 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 it has zips although her bishan hasn't wavered isn't bible has been training hard in her adopted home of months of coro and is going all out for that historic third gold in london there that she didn't cut up i knew that if i became the first woman to jump muslims five me to this then i would be making you fanatics history i will always be remembered and that 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 track and field is not going to disappoint my cheated once i don't consider myself to be. your new female track and field athlete has managed to become an individualist champion in three successive games this is

my girl and i want to become a legend i don't argue with. music it's a man's 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 so 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 for saudi it's out in finnish just two hundreds of a second behind getting watching the two thousand and six olympic champion clinched a prize the defending champion from two thousand and nine freshman cyprian of the shark was third. and while football remains the king of sports in africa plenty of uganda's top 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 plenty of nets set up in the country's capital bringing together participants of all ages and while sizable tournaments are host to domestically the national team rarely gets to take on 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 that's once the third all african games are on the agenda for now could this be that seemed to be to the world championships and summer olympics of the not so distant future. moving on to the london swans it's all in big games where the hosts are feeling the pressure of the world on their shoulders than 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 domestic 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 phil sees those the message 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 it's 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 from we've got a great history and we are going to get to get a medal. while over in new zealand and you shot put star is continuing his rise to the all the medics world jacksonville will be taken for in the points of twelve games in london after taking the junior circuit by storm the seventeen year old has

all. already amassed 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. my room with. the. so in the world i mean i'm not going to have much i would choose to. do it now and because we're back to school. and into my stories that. that's all we have time for right now but don't forget that some of the stories seen here are also available on our you tube channel at artsy sport news so check it out so when you get a chance thanks for watching. witnesses . to history in the making of. testimony.

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