a week after north korean ruler kim jong il dies his youngest son is appointed as the new supreme leader state television shows thousands openly weeping in the streets after kim's death was announced by the secretive states neighbors are on high alert. next a former head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog speaks with r.t. about how can join us death might disturb the already shaky stability in the region stay with us. well i'm joined by mr hans blix from stop calling 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 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. next national leader what do we know about him are things going to stay pretty much the same or where general security under threats how vigorously will he have push for nuclear weapons. while we are generally rather . about the. architecture of the power building in north korea. but the change has been underway for some time but of course with. growth and figure is gone. and there's always a risk in such a structure that there can be changes so. 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 might have 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. forces in japan. i don't see that now at all 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 a capacity we enrich uranium has increased threat tensions enormously and there is a great arms race going on. and we hear who works in israel and then in the united states saying that they should bomb iran others say that they don't know why are all the nuclear installations are and that it is meaningless. one of the presidential candidates says that he thinks the answer to work for a regime change but i don't think he explained whether he would like the a regime change to be the afghan model of models or the iraqi model. but holidays are the only service is very soon 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 case of iraq they talked about. weapons that in fact did not exists today they are talking about iranian intentions that 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 know it is true that you are merely dad 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 with me think that he is really talking to the arab street. he has one wanted to do stab allies 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 us and israel maintain the latest i report provides very strong evidence that iran 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 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 should this intelligence be treated and how far can actually i.a.e.a. go in checking the credibility of such intelligence. well they do it or not the every city in the iran and the it's a big country and then it 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 an a nuclear weapon and nor do they need any enrichment capability i'm. here some european 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 a big conference about a nuclear weapon free zone in the middle east which will take place in helsinki next year and all rigidly the idea was to get the israel to do away with this nuclear weapons but i think if this if the 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 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 thing 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 its human capability and israelis would be more secure there would be a warning now that syria saudi arabia and egypt might also go for richmond's. and

iran certainly should be nervous that israelis night 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 it likely that it has become more dangerous and maybe it will actually show for the first time that if the us has it does have nuclear arsenal and use it probably too long iran well it's hard to judge i mean some people think that this kind of language and threats by their use individuals in this israel and also by a hoax in the night that it was the iranians from their present course however i am somewhat doubtful that one can scare a country away from go in for nuclear weapons i think that carrots

are better perswading them that they can gain quite a lot by staying away from weapons and from enrichment to saying there will be a point where i will be convincing israel not to use its nuclear nuclear arsenal. well i think the israelis are very well aware of the danger of using its weapons but even when they talk about bombing iran there is nothing to suggest that they will use nuclear weapons for it and i do hope very much that if anything came to a war that no nuclear weapons would be used and it would also be very bad if they attacked the civilian nuclear reactors that iran has in bush or but any kind of attack i think the risk is a total flood conflagration in the middle east the iranian mullahs are not sitting in to twiddle their thumbs they will have

a counterattack of course and maybe they will drag 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 sort of neo colonial almost neal colonialist tone 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

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 haven't had to look up our reactors this conscious we've been where i'm standing now we have ten and we imported rich you're 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.

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if you. come from stupid. stunts on t.v. don't come. week's top stories on our team tens of thousands rally in central moscow protesting the results of this month's parliamentary vote president medvedev is promising sweeping political reforms some of which are already under way by the newly elected state to . syria locked 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. a week after north korea really kim jong il dies his youngest son is appointed as the new supreme leader state t.v. showed thousands openly weeping in the streets after kim's death was announced

while the secretive states neighbors went on high alert. next with sports stay with us. 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 palms. 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 deny the sin by. let's start with ice hockey and the continental hockey

league where struggling puts up an impressive fight against clowns in a losing effort the most courageous men escaping slovakia with an overtime win thanks to a clutch 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 scar meanwhile have lost three nothing against a top five teams in a men's in a tough road outing in bella ruse second string goalies for both teams in that one . and staying with ice hockey and they can tell where sports uk find they 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 learn the terrifying one with ten defeats in eleven riches and surprisingly traded their captain alec began marriage to our more boys

before on draft day just before the encounter while on guard last two previous games in shootouts both sides also place their head coaches a recent spark back somebody see that and go and write him a sunni and former one guard while looking for their first wins behind the mansion is this season in the red and white stopped a chose to distance only conceded goals one hundred sixty however it was the host could to believe just five minutes into the game martz zero four said boston 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 the and if you go to me what they were is shot from the right circle and involves a brother because i spun him around to net the second is a metre inside seemed to be confused but managed to jump back into the game sound in seconds before the second intermission as alex and the bubbles were directing the bus with the bus they want us to tend to want to sport up after forty minutes

however in the decisive period the red and whites managed to withstand the one birds attacks and then one more next season i don't think that a breakaway and couldn't use them to their visitors had pulled the goaltender and that sealed the final score three one they have a very good club over there and i think with playing well in that you know we have set the player best game so that when it's late and that's all we have to get there should be a back and. everything depends on us if we continued to play the way we did tonight i'm sure we can soon forget about the disappointing performances to get it under that though it's an honor and suffered their third straight defeat while sparkler one second time in twelve manches to end their four manchu losing streak sitting nine points behind a play of sport because i'm out of our team. twenty eleven all round world and european champion speed skating it has defended his national title in moscow now

vancouver olympics silver medalists called it 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 . i'm successfully completed an intensive training competition period and i'm in good condition of the one podium sponsor real time so everything is fine and i like the way things are going i'm very pleased with the region. 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 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 thirty minute leaving three consider mental goals they've only managed to bronze medals in three of them pick appearances goetia brissac lofty has 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. 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 at 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 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 up i knew that if i became the first woman to jump modern five meters then i would be making a fanatic's 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 the first since paris is always good and i'm really happy that my name is forever in the history of the track and field at this point much ignorance i don't consider myself to be only. new female track and field

athlete has managed to become an individualist champion in three successive games this is my though it is i want to become a legend i don't argue 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 sold the likes of olympic gold medalist excellence pencil and bode miller go airborne on a fast course lincecum better start of the day but for participants were eliminated after each round american ted ligety was among the last man standing and his effort an absolute heartbreaker to local favorite giovanni burst saudi beats out in finnish just two hundreds of a second behind the getting watching the two thousand and six of the big champion clinched a prize the defending champion from two thousand and nine frenchman cypriano 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 scene finally get into its first global event but twenty third so you know 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 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 the 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 combined 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 the feel that if you are there you've got a really good team but it's that guy who 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 shotput story is continuing. his rise to

the itself all this let it swirled jacksonville will be taken pour in it's one to twelve games in london after taking the junior circuit by storm the seventeen year old has already amass 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 in bishan. with the my room with. all going to be sitting there soon it will mean i'm not going to have much which is there when i'm older some as we're doing now and michael has her back to school. and we're up there with her and he and i so he's a. that's all we have signed for right now but don't forget that some of the stories seen 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

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