eight thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines the e.u. seeking to impose tougher economic sanctions on syria's government after failing to boost pressure on president assad through a u.n. draft resolution that was blocked by russia and china. russia's foreign minister calls western reaction to the veto indecent and hysterical ahead of a trip to damascus aimed at finding a political solution to the ongoing crisis. plus ensuring greater political involvement for the people through the internet prime minister putin laying out his

plans to upgrade russian democracy a day after massive pro and anti-government rallies sweep the country. and pressure on all fronts of the greek coalition government in deadlock over adopting new austerity measures to a second to secure a second bailout while the e.u. says time for a deal is running out for the. next in the midst of sky high tensions between the way the west and iran over to iran's controversial nuclear ambitions we speak with a former chief of the israeli intelligence service for his take on the ongoing confrontation stay with us. when you have mistaken for him her gave me before we hade israeli 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 an understanding with the iranians that they will not become nuclear. 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. us 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 economics 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 you run poses an existential threat to israel. in the region. i'm on record. repeatedly saying

that i don't think there is such a thing as an 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 the leadership insist on presenting the ran as this danger i believe that the leadership believes that in order to arouse international public opinion in order to mount pressure upon the iranians it's necessary to impress upon the world at large public opinion the national public opinion this is. serious international threats and i believe that in this context probably the leadership here believes that using the word existence will rings a bell which also brings you back to days gone by in the twentieth century. a rise of nazi germany the world war two and of course the holocaust and. these apparitions these. pictures these experiences recalled in

order to impress upon the world that maximum pressure should be mounted on iran 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 very important to deter iran and if you run believes that 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 if israel and the bad both had nuclear weapons only for me if i 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 mossad is concerned which you define if county commission me as preventing war weakening iran in the case that does happen i think that it is the mission of the mossad to do everything in. its capabilities 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 a whole list of capabilities. 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 the details of this war the details of various events be not exposed to the public when you talk about candace timewarp be killing of ukrainian scientists accidents in the ring implants computer viruses is this what you're referring to i'm referring to all range of activity is i will not confirm anything which you have just now i mentioned but i was serving that there is a long range of activities that are being carried being carried on for a very very long time over a very long period of time and i think that the activities on the other side very very significantly and i will not say anything more than that if the war was to break out on who side with turkey 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 so my guess is that in a situation like this. turkey would take a neutral position when it will missions we knew we had of them aside was to promote ties between israel and us friendly states so how would you counter policy on what many say is israel's self isolation particularly with regard to its former allies egypt and turkey. in a different light than you have 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 today in the region we have our differences we have more than just differences we have bones of contention with some of the countries like with turkey we have gone through a very difficult time i just 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 in with the radiance. interest among some leeway in eons and from its means to promote peace i have many iranians in international fora not had private relations or private contacts with the radians 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 we know there are issues territorial issues between ourselves we don't have other kinds of issues which we know 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 has been suffering as a result of putting ideological ideology on the front. and what are some of the discussions and 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 these same irradiance come in the saying we believe israel has a nuclear capability israel should sign the n.p.t. their own proof 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 cannot 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 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 regime forces. 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 purchase. and i think that this book should would have enormous effects on the history of syria and maybe of neighboring countries as well hamas is very likely to have a duty to seen how will this play into israeli palestinian reconciliation efforts. first of all i'm not sure hamas will have a new leader. certainly i don't think the show has been the most extreme of the leaders of the hamas he's also on record as saying that he's willing 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 my view is and i know this is not the view which is shared by the government of israel at the moment that ultimately we will have to deal with the actors the way they are and i think the potential of finding ways and means of dealing with them in a way which will not injure the basic interests of israel i find thank you very much for joining us here on our team thank you. for you. know we. see you tomorrow.

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the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy kinds of reports on our. seeking to impose tougher economic sanctions on syria's government after failing to boost pressure on assad through a u.n. draft resolution blocked by russia and china. russia's foreign minister calls western reaction to the veto indecent and hysterical ahead of a visit to damascus aimed at finding a political solution to the crisis. ensuring greater political involvement for the people through the internet prime minister putin laying out plans to upgrade russia's democracy a day after massive pro and anti-government rallies sweep the country. pressure on all fronts greeks coalition government in deadlock over adopting new austerity measures to secure a second ballot well that the e.u.

says time for a deal is running out. kate up next with all the latest sports news stay with us here on r.t. . and i want to do that i just bought into the headlines. the new york giants has to say let's come back once again to great new england thoughts on the super bowl twenty one seventeen. while you see alberto contador stripped of his tour de france title and picks up a two year ban for failing a drug test. i'm not russia's olympic high jump champion and they said no we pulled the biggest need to be at the country's athletes shine in boston. but it's the new york giants are the winners of super bowl forty six off the quarterback eli manning led his side to a dramatic twenty one seventeen victory at the new england patriots in indianapolis

just as they did four years ago when the giants really new england's perfect season well this time around the giants were the fos to add to the ropes the lucas oil stadium not in combining with the big to cruise unwilling known leaned however new in the responders and have ben hours in front half time thanks to a field goal on the touchdown after tom brady danny woodhead. and the events of the patriots after the intermission stretching that lead to seventeen million and brady find the ball to aaron hernandez for another touchdown but there was still time for a fight back a pedophile goes brought the johns to within two points seventeen fifteen then they took the lead in the light drive first the merry i'm not even forty five thirty eight yards past manning and that led to the decisive moments the patriots allotting off the road short of school so they could get the ball back before the clock runs but they gamble didn't pay off one last boss the brady fails to find a man behind while grown can skate. a twenty one seventeen triumph of the giants

and once again light bright brady the patriots. this isn't about one person this is about a whole team. coming together getting this win so i'm just proud of our guys proud of the proud the team the way we fought all year never never got discouraged kept our faith kept our confidence and just bought a very and 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 and certainly wasn't one plays a reason why we lost today so everybody feels like we could've done more. i said after the game i'll keep coming to this game and keep trying out rather come this game and lose and not get here so hopefully we will be back at some point we had a great year we just didn't make enough place today. citing alberto contador has been stripped of his twenty tentative france title and handed a two year ban by the court of arbitration for sport after a prolonged investigation into his positive test for performance enhancing drug the

twenty nine year old spaniard failed a test for twenty two all only to see that his third lead to a crown but he now officially only has two of those titles on the sightings most famous race this year along with the london olympics as well as news and cheer at italia title for trying last year contador have pleaded not guilty to the diving charges saying he never took drugs but blamed contaminated meat for the failed test result can produce next to prevent the spanish well tough and oldest. of the cast has found that alberto contador was guilty of doping oftens and the sanction is that alberto contador shall be suspended for two years with richard active in fact on the twenty five january two thousand and eleven with the suspension that was already served in two thousand and ten alberto contador should be able to compete again on the sixth of august twenty twelve. tennis russia will play serbia

in the semifinals of the fed cup after a three two win over spain after taking a two goal lead on saturday russia completed the job on sunday spain did hold the deficit's when world number thirty three ninety five throws at last in straight sets to call it what is that about a six love six three spent long business over finished paying off with a three second win for the sylvia salesforce a victory set up by only seventy final tie in april against belgium three two although this game uncertainty over whether maria sharapova will be available while the czechs are the defending champions and they beat germany for one to reach the all the semifinal after leading to nil from saturday world number two petra bit of a sealed the victory after coming from a set to beat sabine lisicki and the czechs will next play italy after they beat ukraine three two. now imagine i had missed the chance to move level on points with legal aid as manchester city off to

staging a remarkable three goal fight back to draw three straight chelsea in the premier league jonny evans i'm go hard to the players one male after the break but all the draw back in the second half quick goals on one last luis meant chelsea were three goals to the good office fifty minutes but to wayne rooney penalties and right at the end of this they did an astonishing comeback the draw at leeds united training city by two points and while injured manager fabio capello could be in breach of contract for backing the captain john terry a center half siblings side not only a point ahead of newcastle they went back up to face with a two a when i grasped in villa chelsea manager brave enough cross was disappointed by the refereeing something british. very difficult one first goal is over obviously a penalty and there's nothing to say about it the second one is very very dubious. i don't even know if i would as as the correct angle to make a decision maybe the linesman gave it i'm not sure. but but it's. so very very

unlucky for him to give a penalty like that. not sure if he's going been sitting for anything in the first half but that is that there is a wrong decision. meanwhile this monday night luis suarez will return from an eight game ban as liverpool host third place tottenham we could get within two points of manchester united or the victory of downfield a week of the red sea we've seen them in the front all snow in just six years. now over to golf and what a difference a week makes as american call stanley has 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 after spectacularly missing yet in his previous tournament this time last week stanley's threw away a three stroke lead on the final hole of the farmers insurance open where he went on to lose in a playoff and he didn't look like he be in contention this time around in the desert sands eleven has started the day six shots clear of the field and eight ahead of stanley but that lead evaporated with a run of bogeys leaving spencer distraught finishing with

a round of seventy five while stanley he was thinking about is his fifth of the round drawing him level on the leaderboard after a nice chip here after the rough and he managed to keep his cool on the greens for a two shot victory kyle delighted at his change in fortune and in the space of just one tournament. you know that's golf i think you need to accept the fact that we're going to be ups and downs and you just can't get too high character to love but you know understand profits so much which support from so many people people i don't even know when going to really have any kind of you know put it behind me and move on and. you know it's going. being mixed fortunes for russia is that the russian win trust less expensive here in moscow high jumper and they send off the shuttle but will cut all the can escape the felt unwell and pulled out of the race which just makes us to go for the first time korea phone calls or at hustle. though the russian winter tournaments carries no one in the qualification

points it still manages to attract the world's top flight it talents year after year and that's jump straight are selected winners where olympic champion and race in all recorded the best sleep in the world this season in the high jump clearing two metres and thirty six centimeters while european champion alexander sure stuff finished in second place after failing to overcome the two metre thirty two centimeter mark. if i had not set the bar if i had stopped to thirty six of me then naturally i would not have any more to beijing to keep trying to do well maybe two thirty four would have been enough for me that i could have stopped there but i went on you know i will keep trying to jump in the two forty one one. olympic champion hubie boards like off ski was only six hundred of a second short of the national record finishing second to the continent's top runner a jump shot a hole into the cross the line in one minute fifteen point six seconds third place

in that event went to another russian step on boy style golf you have a fairly slow bumping into the kidney and you have to leave i was actually hoping for a world record you know at this competition is not what i'm training very hard and i feel that i'm ready meo but you saw what you offered probable european enjoy a long jump champion geriatrician of became a triple russian winter winner after improving her season's best by one centimeter a recording six meters eighty six centimeters at the tournaments and moscow olympics four by one hundred relay champion alexandra de joria but surprised the fans and probably herself after posting a personal best as well as the world's third best time. that's in one minutes and forty six seconds for the change but i'm very happy today and i did not even dream about achieving such a result this is my first cycle contacts race in full in germany to us and i believe i chose the right tactic was a managed to hold on to the lead closer to the finish line i'm one despite the fact

that my opinion vanya stumbled into his nine fado minutes and not sex ukase dwain chambers who's hoping the lifetime ban for doping offenses by the british olympic association will soon be lifted showed that he's insult shape after finishing just a single point zero one seconds behind the american winner josh morman out to no commitments indoors you might know from the trolls that happen every sunday for those women and i stood up to move weeks you know to what in building stuff what if that doesn't occur to them was a put those on the way and in the summer stalls they just think about the things phonology specifically and there were no surprises in the men's five thousand meter race walk with an epic champ in the valley portion topping the all russian podium. while in the women's section of this discipline russia's top favorites for gold in london look at any scan at supreme council of the race with just want to peter's left to the finish line allowing twenty two year olds an isa could just get out to

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