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as the country's oppression minority hopes to win an upcoming referendum that could see their native language officially recognised is the latest attempt by the russians to secure their political rights. in the wake of suggestions that military action against iran is a growing possibility we speak to the former chief of israeli intelligence for an insider's view our interview is up next. with me i had mistaken for him heavy before we hade intelligence agency the most side mr halevi thank you very much for joining us here on our team a nuclear. war with iran is there with that option yes there is a third option the third option is a non-nuclear iran with. an agreement and understanding with the iranians that they will not become your korea. and that they will be reintroduced into the family of nations from which they have been virtually expelled in recent months. under terms

which will also take into account some of their interests and some of the. how possible is this option i think is very possible because i think the international pressure which is being building up in recent months is beginning to have serious effects inside iran on the economic side on the moral side. and i think that the basic interest of the people in charge in iran put it that way is to maintain the position to maintain power do you think iran poses an existential threat to israel. in the region. i am on record as repeatedly saying that i don't think there is such a thing as the existential threat to israel because i think israel is strong enough to protect it so to take care of itself and i think that ultimately it's not in the power of iran to destroy the state of israel someone who does these way to insist

on present in iran as this danger i believe that the leadership believes that in order to arouse international public opinion and in order to mount pressure upon the iranians it's necessary to impress upon the world public opinion the national public opinion this is a serious international threat and i believe that in this context probably the leadership here believes that using the word if the stench will rings a bell which also brings you back to the days gone by in the twentieth century. a rise of nazi germany the world war two and of course the holocaust and the. operations these. pictures these experiences recalled in order to impress upon the world that maximum pressure should be mounted on the run does israel have a nuclear weapon. i don't know and if i knew i don't think this would be the

opportunity for me to say something positive and definitive on that but i think that there is in the world an assumption there is in the world a feeling israel has something up its sleeve and i think that this is something which is important in the present situation because it is part of the name of the game now is deterrence and i think it's a very important to deter iran and if you run believes the. israel has certain capabilities where it has it or not i think this is a. positive card in the hands of israel what would be better if israel and demanded both had nuclear weapons with me that had. i've been asked that question before and i think it's a theoretical question. what you're alluding to is in the end is that has the time for israel to. change its policy of what we call the opaque.

methods of presenting what we have or not and i don't think that this time has arrived for the reason i've given before as far as the most scientists concerned would you define if coming to mission me as preventing war or weakening iran in the case that war does happen i think that. it is the mission of the mossad to do everything in. its capability to make a. threat which has been posed to israel dormant what capabilities does the mossad have when it comes to iran where here again i don't think that it would be useful for me to hold lists of capabilities i think leaders of the capabilities which every intelligence organization i think it's important to say that we have been involved in what we call a clandestine war for quite some time with iran and what's interesting about this war is of course that both sides have more or less preferred that the details of this war the details of various events be not exposed to the public when you talk

about can this kind of war killing of ukrainian scientists be accidents the ring implants computer viruses is this what you're referring to i'm referring to a whole range of activities i will not confirm anything which you have just now i mentioned but i was saying that there is a long range of activities that have been carried being carried on for a very very long to. over a very long period of time and i think that the activity is on the other side very very significantly and i would not say anything more than that if the war was to break out on who signed what to keep on the one hand it is a nato member but it's also at odds with israel turkey would not like a nuclear iran on its borders and i don't think that turkey in the end would lend its capabilities or preventing capabilities to either side my guess is that in

a situation like this. turkey would take a neutral position one of the missions when you hit of them aside was to promote ties between israel and the states so how would you see counter policy on what many say is israel's self isolation particularly with regard to its former allies egypt and turkey well i look upon this in a different light than you've just. mentioned if i would look at the situation israel is in today compared to what it was in before the peace process began in one nine hundred seventy seven seventy eight when egypt launched its initiatives towards israel i think the situations are not comparable we lived for thirty years from forty eight to seventy seven seventy eight in the situation of isolation we're not isolated in the region we have our differences we have all just differences we have the bones of contention with some of the countries like with turkey we've gone

through a very difficult time and this was egypt is concerned egypt is also going through a very difficult time and i don't think that it's in the interest of egypt to abrogate the israeli egyptian peace treaty egypt does not need a war now on its northern borders since you retired from the side you have been meeting with the reagans is there a genuine interest among some leeway indians and some israelis to promote. i have many rains in international fora not had private relations or private contacts with iranians there are many iranians the way i see it who would like the present confrontation between israel and iran to gradually end and create a new situation the likes of which we had in from forty eight to seventy eight because iran and israel basically do not have bones of contention you know they have issues territorial issues between ourselves we don't have other kinds of

issues between ourselves we have ideological issues between ourselves and i think it would be wrong for iran to enable ideology to be the main driver of its policies and the calls of serious drawbacks which it has been suffering as a result of putting ideological ideology on the front burner while some of the discussions in some of the questions that all raised at these informal meetings you have the radios who say look israel has no right to exist israel should disappear israel is not a natural entity in the middle east and then you have the same radiance coming the saying we believe that israel has a nuclear capability israel should sign the n.p.t. the improved ration treaty just as we have and should reveal what it has. called into the role of nations only nations and countries can be members of the n.p.t. so you kind of on the one hand demand that israel should sign the n.p.t.

on the other hand deny israel's right to exist and i've said to them that i believe that this is something which is unacceptable a second point has been israel has insisted on its be recognized as a jewish state. and they have said to me look we don't say that france in its title doesn't say the christian state or from the christian state of britain or the catholic state of germany and so forth and i've said to them that why do you say the islamic republic of iran if you raise the word islamic we will raise the word jewish and they say no that's different why is it different this is the kind of. discussion we have had to put it that way sometimes very very. heated discussion in your opinion would it be good or bad for israel if assad's regime force. let me first say that israel has no way of influencing the results of present. events in

syria i believe that assad is going to fall and i think that ultimately assad will fall in a way which will cause a lot of bloodshed and i think that this bloodshed will have enormous effects on the history of syria and maybe of neighboring countries as well hamas is very likely to have a duty to soon how will this play into israeli palestinian reconciliation efforts if at all first of all i'm not sure how most will have a new leader. secondly i don't think the national has been the most extreme of the leaders of the hamas he's also on record as saying that he's a temporarily to accept a palestinian state in temporary borders which is something which moves in its significance to a first step in recognizing the fact that the state of israel is here to stay in my view is that i know that this is not the view which is shared by the government there is a moment that ultimately we will have to deal with is the way they are and i think

the potential of finding ways and means of dealing with them in a way which will not insure the basic interests of israel i find highly of me thank you very much for joining us here on our team thank you. piers.

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to basics the e.u. moles they were fresh economic punishment for president assad syrian regime part of failing to push through a polarizing un resolution. modern technology to support political activism providence to putin goes on line he's been too crude russian democracy. plots wind of change in latvia as the country's russian minority hopes to win an upcoming referendum could see their native language officially recognized the latest attempt by russians to secure their political rights. but drew brings us later sports news now.

hello there welcome to the sport thanks for watching and this is what is coming up the new york giants claim their second super bowl title in four years with a twenty one seventeen win over the new england patriots. plus net game aeration wrap of earned spent large business over helped russia beat spain to reach the fed cup semifinals. twice is nice scottish golfer paul lowry claims his second catarrh masters title after finishing four shots player of the chasing pack. but first the new york giants a super bowl champions quarterback eli manning leading them to a dramatic twenty one seventeen victory over the new england patriots in indianapolis just as he did four years ago when the giants drew new england's perfect season the giants were the faster out of the blocks at the lucas old stadium this time around manning combining with vick to cruise for

a nine year lead however new england responded and had their noses in front of half time thanks to a field goal and a touchdown after tom brady danny woodhead and the mentum stayed with the giants after the intermission. stretching l.a. to seventy nine brady fired the ball to aaron hernandez for another touchdown but there was still time for a fight back and a pair of field ghost brought the giants to within two points and they then took the lead with a late try first remarrying manning in kashmir thirty eight yard pass for manning here and that lead to be decisive moment the patriots allowing bronchial to score so they could get the ball back before the clock ran that but that gamble failed one last pass through brady file to find the man the ball going behind rob. game over a twenty one seventeen triumph for the giants. this isn't about one person this is about a whole team coming together with just. as proud of the proud team in the way we

fought all year. the scourge kept their faith kept their competence in this spot to the area but i think everybody was just disappointed it's. you know this is not a. you know you win as a team you lose a bitch and you lose as a team it certainly wasn't one plays the reason why we lost today so everybody feels like we can go for. a big game. keep coming to this game keep trying out rather come this game and lose and now you're here so hopefully we're going to we're back at some point we had a great year we just didn't make enough plays today. now intend to structure their place in the semifinals of the fed cup after a three one victory over spain and will play serbia in the last fall after taking it to you know late on saturday eighteen russia were able to complete the job on sunday spain did half the deficit though when world number thirty three ninety pretrial were lost in straight sets to carlos watters navarro six love six three

but. finished by enough for the three sets when i would still be a solid. and that sets up the semifinal tie in april against belgium three. again there is uncertainty i will weather. will be available. to look probable sharapova is not her desire to play but the fact that she's participating in a lot of tournaments held the states that if she has to fly back to europe for a fed cup match sure have trouble acclimating in three to five days i wish the fed cup would be scheduled a week before grand slam tournament and not one week afterwards when crews that saw the loss of momentum in today's match in the second set i also believe that was due to the physical strain she said to go through due to scheduling. but the czechs are the defending champions and beat germany for one to reach the other semifinal leading to petrak of the diversity of the victory after coming from

a set down to be being received there the czechs now play italy in the last four they won again she crane is looking forward to helping a country bid for a place in the finals. yeah i mean i. like to pick. my country and i mean i'm not saying only one might have a team here. but it was also a successful weekend for russia on the ice they finished first and second in the form a world cup tour event in canada the crew led by alexander zuckoff managed in time of one minute forty two point four six seconds to pace all their opponents in the form an event rushes over ting captained by alexander came home second fourteen hundreds of a second behind the winners while canada finished third. while on the slopes that was similar success with the both call for others to compete in the family one

round seven of the freestyle world cup jewel moguls while his brother finished. battling against me for gold the red hot canadian was gunning for a record seventh straight win but the younger volkoff brother. only kingsbury never recovered its first ever world cup gold quite a day for the entire family. now football manchester united have failed to move level on points with league leaders manchester city that's after a quite remarkable three three draw with chelsea at stamford bridge they came from three goals down to a point and jonny evans' own goal put chelsea won a lap at the break but all the drama came in the second period goal from one matter louise mensch chelsea with three goals to the good but see wayne rooney penalties and how he and completed an astonishing coming back the draw leaves united training city by two points at the top of the table while chelsea and i were only

a point ahead of newcastle who were fit after a two one win over aston villa blues boss and. is fuming about the second penalty. if you go one first all is over because. there's nothing to say about it so it really is very very dubious. is the correct angle to make a decision maybe the lions will give it i'm not sure. but it's. very very unlucky for him to give a penalty like that. not sure if you're going to do for a nuclear first but that is the decision well a happy man the smalling is american golf a car stanley he's won his first title on the p.g.a. tour after coming from eight shots down on the final day of the phoenix open in arizona this time last week karl threw away a big lead at the farmers insurance open and it didn't look like he'd been contention this time in the desert starting the day eight shots back behind overnight leader spencer levine who was six clear of the field but that evaporated

with a run of bogeys including that shot into the drink there did look distraught while carlisle was sinking birdies his fifth of the round drawing him level with levine at the top of the leaderboard a nice chip here of the rough. following that he managed to keep his cool on the green. to claim a two shop victory delighted at his change in four jeans in the space seven days. you know let's go. back we're going to be ups and downs and you just can't it's too hard to. understand profits so much from support from so many people people i don't even know and it's really helped me kind of you know put it behind me and move on and. you know it's bigger than scotland's poor larry celebrating after winning macassar masters for the second time in his career jason day in paris and kept the

pressure on larry in an event which was reduced to fifty four holes due to strong winds de showing great skill there with along parts of the third and the struggling would finish for back in a tie the second with hand similary put in a masterful performance finishing on fifteen under for the tournament and that put him back in the world's top fifty for the first time since two thousand and three. it's a confidence boost. for oil you know sort of second that. start the season the two talked so you come here and you just keep going you know it's somewhat of my. action after me n.b.a. where lebron james and dwyane wade led miami to a ninety five eighty nine when over the toronto raptors they scored fifty five points between is the heat grab tenth win in twelve games dwyane wade hit twenty five points on the night this after putting them in front thirty seven thirty five while in the third quarter wade finished off chris bosh's pass to increase the lead to sixty one fifty four bron james is also scoring for fun thirty points for him in

the title dropping the ball into the net here after north pass the raptors managed to run to cut the lead to three points in the fourth but it was not enough to stop the hate miami move to be one game chicago. for the best record instant conference . on the court of arbitration for sport will deliver his third it later today in the day in case of cyclists alberto contador the spaniard tested positive for a banned anabolic steroids during the twenty ten tour de france he maintained his innocence saying the substance got into his system three weeks in contaminated mate but if found guilty he could face it ban and be stripped of his twenty ten tour de france victory and his twenty eleven zero to tell you a title on the eve of the verdict though he looked relaxed as he took part in the new york challenge. so that brings us up to date for the moment whether he's

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