had already or had already impoverished population. and the end of an eight year old north korea mourns the death of its leader kim jong il his youngest son steps into power hailed as the new supreme leader news of his passing but the secretive states neighbors on high alert i mean noting the years of regional uncertainty. up next the former head of the un's nuclear watchdog speaks with r.t. about how kim jong il's death might disturb the nation the region's already shaky stability. 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 and i said 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. 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 pushed for nuclear weapons. well they are generally rather. about the architecture of the power building in north korea. but the changes be underway for some time but of course with the only . group 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 nervous because they will feel themselves in a situation of some weakness and any 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 from north korea so even without nuclear weapons the situation that would be a risky one and if north korea were provoked at him. there could be a risk also of encouraging senior 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 goes 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 where all the nuclear installations are and that it is meaningless. this the game one of the presidential candidates says that he thinks down to the world for a regime change but i don't think he explained whether he would like the a regime change to be the afghan more left. or the iraq you more. but holidays are all around us service is very soon similar to what happened in iraq.

could we be seeing an 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 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. the give is true that you are merely. come out in the

various 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 to one to the destabilize arab states that have supported the united states. iraq iran does not have a track record of aggression and 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 report provides very strong evidence that iran is seeking nuclear weapons. 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 explain 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.e.a. go in checking the credibility of such intelligence. well they do it or not the every city here in the iran and 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 any nuclear weapon and 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 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 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 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 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 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

a response and iran certainly should be nervous that israel is 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 the likelihood 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 u.s. individuals in israel and also by hawks in the united states that it will scare the iranians from their present course however i am somewhat doubtful that one can

scare a country away from. nuclear weapons i think that carrots are better person aiding them that they can gain quite a lot by staying away from weapons and from enrichment saying there will be a point where i will be convincing israel not to use its nuclear nuclear arsenal i think the israelis are very well aware of the game you're using 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 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 is a total 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 have 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 fairly sort of neo colonialists neil colonialist tone there of proud people many others are and i think that the. they will have to talk to them i 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 voted to look up our reactors this conscious we will where i'm standing now we have ten and we import 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. it was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial

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the. rights of a few people from phones to try and shoot these. stunts on t.v. don't come. the week's top stories on our t.v. tens of thousands rally peacefully in moscow as they demand a rerun of the presidential of the parliamentary elections ball president dmitri medvedev told reporters promise going over all the country's political so. international pressure mounts on the syrian regime to end its crackdown on protesters as violence intensifies across the city with people struggling under a set of western sanctions soaring prices and food shortages have hit the already of harvard population hard. the end of any era while north korea mourns the death of its ruler kim jong il his youngest son steps into power hailed as the new

supreme leader use of his passing put the secretive states neighbors on high alert and they've now been fears of uncertainty in the region. more news at the top of the hour amman's up next though with all the latest from the world of sports stay with us. hello and welcome to sport on r.t. coming to you from the russian capital with me or i'm on call for a first as always the headlines. the rink dreams russia's junior ice hockey team goes to canada to defend the world side's old one in buffalo. reaching for the stars long jump the norm and on zaria kill each other aims to make a huge debut at the london olympics. gangs of new york the giants run out confident winners over local rivals jets to get the big apple bragging rights and a chance for an n.f.c.

east ground. but will start with ice sucky where there are eight games on offer in the kontinental hockey league on sunday three only matches to tell you about first where off to mobilise to conceded in their ninth consecutive match after losing to the not on moscow on home ice all over in almost with a score or ford suv defending the gaar and cup winners celebrity alive want to home match against more with the same four two scoreline trucks or should have been school sports second period goals against visiting sarah palin in law girds which were enough to win the match five more games are now still on their way were two times the current got winners og bars are welcoming severe and the score in that game is now three male to force in the third period. shells the bad boys details are hosting out on guard and the score in the moscow region is now two one two on guard need to keep making mental because this car both hungry for a victory after their respective losses in the previous round in the school or in

their head to head meeting is an out suit to a draw now severstal are up against you graw with the scoreline often known will still there in the third period and spartak moscow are in action against metz a lot of money is a war skin. russian capital with a score two one says it to the visiting side it's a little. meanwhile on saturday's struggling love put up an impressive fight against south flops in a losing effort of the most courage in men escaping slovakia with an already signed win thanks to a clutch effort by the factory zacharias and five for the final score as love have now lost three straight and sit nineteenth in the table at lunch on the other hand have extended their win streak to four games and are ranked third overall league leaders meanwhile have lost three nothing against the top five mins going to suffer road outing envelops second string goal is for both teams in that one. and staying with ice hockey where the russian national junior team are preparing to defend the

world crown they captured a year ago that's when it's well championships get underway in calgary canada on monday and robert byrd the neon has the preview. the young victor is lending at home in blaze of glory to live the world youth champ ask up in front of their adoring fans the russian youth hockey team clore the truth the out of the hands of their canadian peers in buffalo us in a dramatic finale last year. now the reigning champions are ready to take on the even tougher challenge in that moment of hockey canada they hope to hold on to the ground they cantered a year ago. but of course when el facing an even tougher task we won the title and now we need to defend it and our opponents are going to see us in a different way with much more respect and with the aspiration to beat us we'll see how we can handle that our actions are. this man probably more than anyone else in

the team both the outcome in his hands one of the most gifted russian players of the new generation eve gainey has needs of the nineteen year old forward played an essential role in his team's brilliant performance last year. that you have been slated just kept on shining taking part in the kitchen all star game in twenty eleven and also making his debut with the national senior team but he's back for his third world year jump and ships which gets norway on monday and he's looking forward to settling some old scores all of that smaller than i enjoy playing against canadians it gives me a kind of a special drive recalling last year's finals in buffalo even when they took the three no lead and the whole arena started singing our team got a spark to them even more so when we scored the winner and the home crowd walked out a whole minute earlier it was unbelievable though with it's

a safe bet my native dragons men will give their all to get the feeling once again . and it really does take much more than one great turns to cheer them was the theme of says that russian fans have every reason to expect some new up and comers to show off in the big showdown with the most of them each one of our squad can be a leader all for one and one for all that's the way we play it doesn't matter if it's me was or is a lot of goals or any of my cimi. i will the golden boy is a russian ice hokey will please their first test in the group stage begins switzerland. r.t. news to region. one of the world's brightest up and coming the long jump stars is hoping to make the upcoming london twenty two over the next her shining moment zaria collation has been training right here in the russian capital after a string

a world class performances into wednesday eleven that collation out one gold at the under twenty three european championships and the european championships this year that's when iraq also owns the second best mark among juniors ever after she broke the seventy meter barrier aged nineteen collation of becoming a popular figure securing plenty of endorsement deals thanks to her looks and achievements and the upstart long jumper is already focused in the next step to have a chance at standing at the podium in london this summer. i. think this is over this new we say it's a dream is something that is unrealistic and a long way from reality so for me the olympics are not a dream a time get something that any meaningful and focusing on in just over a year's time i hope we're going to be in a very fast lane in big games and i will be talking to success not just the way things go well and i can push them to the best of my ability and become

a champion of a movement onto the national football league now where talk turned out to be cheap for the jets coach rex ryan the new york giants coming out confidence once in nine fourteen winners over a gang green after plenty of media barbs from both sides leading up to the clash john's quarterback eli manning finding beats or cruise's spies being pinned inside his own end zone and the twenty five year old showed his blazing speed by making a huge ninety nine yards down run the giants going up seven late in the second quarter after that amazing effort by their breakout star ahmad bradshaw also a big contributor for the g. men as he gashed the jets defense for two touchdowns the giants thus setting up an n.f.c. east side all showdown with the dallas cowboys in the final week. the denver broncos quarterback team d. ball has been known for his late comeback there royce but he was the exact opposite against buffalo denver was up seven three before my calvin turned that sides during

the offseason overlook special teams plays and eighty yard ponds return putting buffalo three in for their first lead of the game meanwhile couldn't bring his team back late this interception return score by jerry is byrd was followed by another one from spencer johnson forty fourteen the final the broncos fall back into for the a.f.c. west. meanwhile has began that c.b.s. process of recovery from a broken leg he sustained earlier. this month during the club world cup the barcelona star hoping to see his once heal so he can help spain defend their consensual title at the euro so when it's well the thirty year old checked out of a barcelona hospital after undergoing surgery on monday but the authors say villa will likely be out for around four or five months that means that he can technically aim to make the euro it's what is twelve tournaments which starts in

june while they are himself is focused on recovery rather than any club or international competition. the goal is not to be able to play in any final or competition and there are still many months ahead before that happens and to think that far ahead is not my style i'd rather concentrate on a day to day basis and i can tell you i will do everything i can to get back soon not only for the champions league in euro two thousand and twelve but rather to be able to be back as soon as possible on any football field if my leg allows me to do that that's all for now but more sport will be coming your way in less than a couple hours meanwhile our use of channel at r.t. sports news is always available for your comments so head there when you get a chance thanks for watching. witnesses. to history in the making. testimony.

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the week's top stories on our team tens of thousands rallied peacefully in the russian capital calling for a rerun of the parliamentary elections president dmitry medvedev thousand old political reforms. air national pressure mounting on the syrian regime to end its crackdown on protesters is violence intensifies across the country with the people struggling under a heavy set of western sanctions. yeah end of an arrow while north korea mourns the death of its ruler kim jong il his youngest son steps into power hailed as the new supreme commander.