john l. bradley thanks very much for talking to us today now we'll start with the situation in iran because it's very much in the news that the maidment the e.u. has banned all new oil contracts with the country and it plans to extend sanctions on the iranian central bank how much do you think that's going to cost iran the e.u. and the global economy in general it's certainly going to cost to run as we've seen today the real local currency. level against the u.s. dollar in history and the fact is that iran exposed a sizable amount of its oil to the you and coupled with american sanctions unilateral sanctions are already in place against iran it's going to hurt but what we're seeing essentially is the first phase of economic warfare against iran and the problem is that the west has iran all wrong just as it has the middle east all wrong people leaves the sanctions will increase the divide between the regime and the people and historically this doesn't happen there's no proof that this happens whatsoever it's people feel pressured and they look where that pressure is coming

from and that's the west and so it makes them more anti west and that's the only logical outcome he also hopes that if there is serious instability as a result then because iran is very ethnically and geographically divided that certain groups will rise up against the regime or there will be a popular uprising but again it's wishful thinking it's not going to happen at all and we saw years of sanctions in iraq didn't wait is that a comparison that you draw yeah and then we saw a war and all of this is leading to war the whole thing washington their allies in saudi arabia and israel are absolutely absolutely determined to bring iran to its knees and it seems like it's now or never and they're going for broke so what will happen next you think well what does that usually involve what they're hoping for is that iran is backed into a corner and. some incident occurs whether by accident or design that makes it seem

that the rain ians the first hour as well and then because there is very little support in the west for unilateral strike against iran the fact is especially if it's done at the behest of israel and they need iran to do something whether it's the us carrier. in the strait of hormuz or whether it's just rhetoric on the part of the iranian regime. it everyone's up. to the extent that something has to happen and the americans wouldn't militarized to the extent that they have if they weren't expecting the final out come to be war do you see that that could be the a rainy and looking the straits of hormuz the gulf oil export reaches that now promising that they well you know though it's not saying that it will do that just as a result of sanctions it's threatening to do that in the event that it attacked and

that's just one of many things that iran is threatening to do and has the capability to do if you are very worried about ethnic divisions all through the middle east comes the fore in both iran and also in syria if sunni islamists gain control of most of the middle east what do you think the outcome could be for the majority shiites iran obviously all of this is news for iran and in fact if you look back at the arab spring the turning point came in late february when saudi arabia was given the go ahead by washington. and what happened then is related very much to everything that's happening now because the only country is a majority ruled by a sunny minority and iran has the story claims to the island and the u.s. navy's fifth fleet is. crucial to containing iran and so. what we've seen is

a sunny divide reemerge in the middle east with washington clearly backing sunny powerhouse saudi arabia close american ally and saudi arabia inter along has taken control of the revolutions out swearin so for example it's funding and the main islamic party in tunisia the muslim brotherhood and more extremist groups in egypt are on the record as saying they go substantial funds from saudi arabia the yemeni government has openly criticized for interfering in its internal affairs and funding radical islamists and of course in syria the main opposition is made dominated by the muslim brotherhood and the so-called free syrian army is dominated by not only radical jihadi is from within syria but also you have these from throughout the region where we're told constantly that there's no real threat because these are moderate islamist parties but of course the definition of

moderate makes absolutely no sense in any rational because saudi arabia is often described in the western media as a moderate arab state and i lived in saudi arabia for three years and i can assure you there is absolutely nothing moderate about our country that's all you say that . is the base groups who have stepped into the breach in many of these countries are you saying these were genuine people's uprisings at the time. the idea. behind it is that they hijacked the revolutions and precisely because they were in fact islamic inspired the beginning in tunisia could never have been because it's rather in prison already and the muslim brotherhood in egypt openly came out against the revolution initially the problem is that the motivation for these revolutions was economic internees here for example you started in the deep south in. the south in syria. it started in a city near jordan which hadn't been experiencing

a drought for three years i mean egypt an extensive opinion poll carried out even among those who went to talk area just after mubarak fell showed that only nineteen percent of the free and fair elections and free expression and so on of the top of their agenda their main priority sixty five percent was the economy now the people who are evolutionists foolishly declared their revolution is leaderless and they didn't have an agenda anyone who knows anything about revolutionary uprisings in the past and specifically you're right on the most ready for the seventy nine revolution in iran knows that what happens in the post-revolutionary. is that the groups that are most disciplined. and most ruthless politically then fill the vacuum and when you couple that with the fact that they then with the funding that we've been talking about from saudi arabia. able to manipulate the electoral process. they were perfectly poised to to step into the into that

and fill the vacuum and that's what they've done what about the free syrian army is fighting for a genuine democracy and you'll see whether or not they're fighting for democracy is an open question what kind of democracy we then have to us and i just took hold and go to the coverage that this jihadi outfit is being given you can't get a word in edgeways and trying to criticize it will trying to illustrate just what a horrible bunch of extremists these people are very string of credible polls that are showing that. especially another girl states have been funding jihad is not only from within the country but from libya for example in elsewhere and i find it very difficult to believe that the south has as its ultimate goal western style democracy employer is freedom is what we're seeing in syria. basically islamic

revolution absolutely if we've been hearing constant greatly exaggerated predictions of the syrian regime's d. minus for eleven months now if a popular revolution was going to happen it would have happened already the fact is that though they may have no great love for cucumber face president. the. general feeling of better the devil we know and you talk about the arab league do you think that the mission in syria has essentially played into the hands of days to exacting pressure on the syrian all sources and it is the stepping its mok when it makes demands while the mediating the arab league essentially has no credibility on the arab street and everyone knows that it's the top of the g.c.c. and its aim is not to create momentum that the arab league itself can then implement although it counting and has imposed sanctions and they suspended syria

and could possibly impose a no fly zone what they are going to do is what they did with libya before you remember before the un resolution on libya the arab league convened on conveniently almost all of those who voted were from the gulf cooperation council in support of the no fly zone in libya what the arab league mission is trying to accomplish is get enough evidence concrete evidence of human rights abuses on the part of the are so very keen to then take that to the u.n. and the evidence will be so strong that even russia and china feel compelled to work but as of now one month after this mission started they seem to know the monitors seem to know more about what's going on the ground than they did at the beginning and so it all looks like you know we're going back to square one and in contrast to libya so far western nations are we not see adamant that they're not going to go into syria why do you think that is it doesn't have a seaport. in the way that it's not. the coast in the way that for example.

benghazi was on the coast in libya and so it's far more difficult militarily to get in supplies it's also not resort resource rich. you know obviously they went into libya because it has a great deal of oil and they continue to support saudi arabia and because they have a great deal of oil and gas there is no great pale immediate payoff when it comes to syria but there is a great deal to be gained politically but they can buy time and they're hoping for an internal collapse or barring that the arab league somehow money she's to weaken the regime enough that we've heard for example the. mayor of cut saying that arab league troops should be sent in and so the west is quite happy for the time being for the arabs to do their dirty work john albright they thank you very much thank you.

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cyber attacks on government websites testers are saying you agree mint designed to protect intellectual property rights would lead to censorship. turner sports. hello the sports are not good company again this coming up in the program. in the australian open victoria azarenka of belarus beat defending champion came close to three sets to make her first ever grand slam final. still. defeat a fast on home court in basketball's your early to claim that straight win in the parliament. and in england little poll through to the finals to face second tier side cardiff city. so let's start with the australian open wave of

tourism has reached her first ever grand slam final after beating defending champion kim clijsters of belgium in three sets the third seeded well rush into the open a six four but lost the second set six one in the decider was strong again claiming it six three and the match next start for the twenty two year old. rushers marriage up of all of the czech republic the two are currently in action in iraq heat of last year's wimbledon final the latest score there is two one two the czech player in the decider. side of the action will see the top four in the world playing in the semi's only one matches shadowed for thursday rafael nadal and roger federer will show up on court in several hours time world number one and defending champion novel jockey which plays on friday. going to football and in

england liverpool have joined cardiff city in the carling cup final that's after drawing the second semi final leg with manchester city and advancing on aggregate city who lost the first like at the top by a single goal needed to get the better of the return fixture and a spectacular long range shot from nigel de young levelled matches just after thirty minutes of play struck back right away with steven gerrard converting at how to kick in the second half. put city in front once again the hosts were determined not to miss out on a first up from the parents in sixteen days greg bellamy to the equaliser to the delight of the crowd to all the final score the night on aggregate in favor of liverpool. staying with football where brazil is stroke of love has returned to

his homeland to science. after eight years at moscow the twenty seven year old has signed a two year deal while his former club will receive a theory of thirteen million dollars played two hundred and fifty one games for the muscovites scoring one hundred twenty times the russian premier league twice as well as the u.s. a cop in two thousand and five scoring in the final in two thousand and eight the brazilian was the league's top scorer with twenty goals. to the hardwood now it says come moscow continued their winning streak the second round of the euro league's top sixteen so you're honest because losses meant thresh on a dollar fs ninety six to six to eight in the russian capital and to claim their twelfth straight victory in the tournament they season over to other now reports. what does it take to. today sysco wednesday's game show much more than

a fest led by the two time n.b.a. champ then. the other man starts ahead of their first home game in the yearly ixtapa sixteen or just slowly this eleven wins out of eleven games in the tournament this isn't and the muscovites produced their victorious dozen in style in front of a cheering home crowd in fact it was only the first quarter which saw some tough competition on the court. but as soon as the host center and not christie each start a dominating in the paint both scoring and rebounding the ominously began to grow. the turkish side was far from giving out that easy they were struggling and grabbing points well to scupper plate showing their class over and over again for a thirty six but intermission. the game kept the same course in the second half

here cisco starman and break it in and go with a slam dunk and even when they are man missed. they still school in the end. making cisco look like a team which hardly has a weak side start saving. us with thirty points you know. we can differ to give the wrong thing and. sometimes rushing to our shots but this. is just. the start of so you know it's really play excellent game. first of all we played great defensively and that is very important often facing your problems are not friends for the gamers who are a huge advantage. for the first game pretty close but we are. bricker we're all children. so the our men look confident on the way to the euro we're exploiting

for the dream and the last one in two thousand and eight. for the neuron or t. . in the meantime says cars country men only expected to raining you really one of the now coach in athens that result in the russian team top group g. after two games they host to the first quarter twenty two seventeen proved in the second finishing just a point behind after the big break the visitors started to dominate and radomir can't top scoring for the cause with twenty three points the game eventually finished. eighty nine to eighty three in favor of the russians. in women's basketball the moscow region side spotter and scale have gone top of the euro leagues group c. after threshing cross basket toronto on home caught the hosts came out with a relatively disappointing start and the opening stage was won by the visitors

eighteen sixteen poky chapman's charges quickly got back into the game and left the italians with no chance in the second quarter the house added twenty four points to run to only eight forty two twenty six before the big intermission and they were not going to stop and kept increasing their advantage to seven to fifty three the final score their profitable win by the fourth time you really can't burn through moved back into pole position in a battle with kaka for the first place in group c. . in cricket thirty seven year old ricky ponting has been turning back the clock after he and captain michael clarke had a big day for thriller in the fourth test against india scoring a double century in a six hundred m. four four seven effort for all the captain pointing certainly demonstrating he's got plenty left to offer. haryono would come here and answer questions there are

two women in. celebration a celebration it was made a test match and it's so pretty excited that i haven't scored a lot of those in the us companies which are a lot about lately as well. and i was just annoyed it's always north america honored and especially today when you know we didn't get off to the audio stuff. and finally the national football league the new england patriots will meet the new york giants in the super bowl for the second time since two thousand and seven it was underdogs new york who ended the patriots perfect season by winning the title four years ago it was a gorski now reports on how they both got to the big events. the two thousand and seven edition of the new england patriots played like an unstoppable juggernaut in the playoffs before reaching the big dance this year's team however has been able to advance to the postseason despite glaring weaknesses that the patriots ranks second from bottom and pass defense this year and it looks like the ravens would

exploit that acutely steal in the a.f.c. decider baltimore's joe flacco time the game at ten with that second strike to dennis spitta new england secondary was torched again in the third with a rookie tory smith giving baltimore a seventeen to sixteen lead. and when the chips were down for the home team quarterback tom brady yet again showed plenty of physical and mental toughness despite having a poor day passing the ball the thirty four year old taking a huge hit on a quarterback sneak but still made the score twenty three to twenty new england that will prove the final score as the pats defense fared better than expected late on the ravens lee evans stopped just short of calling in a touchdown pass by backup quarterback sterling moore my game would have gone into overtime if the wasn't for billy cundiff misfiring on a relatively easy close range kick and in the patriots a fifth super bowl berth since two thousand and one the new york also involved in

a close championship game over in the n.f.c. decider the san francisco forty nine ers constantly looking to vernon davis who burned the giants for two touchdowns in the forest and third quarter tut's tomb of the little giants quarterback eli manning a seen his star rise to brother peyton's level after a great season for the thirty one year old finding mariel manningham late in the fourth for seventeen to fourteen the both kickers on their game in this contest with david acre stein proceedings and seventeen of these. special teams mistakes all the forty nine er's cow williams news the ball and upon return in the ensuing over time allowing the giants to set up shop in enemy territory was. lawrence tynes short field going the extra session sending the giants to the big games so a rematch of epic proportions is brewing as both the patriots and the giants have eight players on the roster who still remember that two thousand and seven super bowl battle fans gorski r t. well that's all the sports news for the moment

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