martin why not. why not what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer the no holds barred look good the global financial headlines tune in to. ten thirty pm in moscow these here are t. headlines seeking to impose tougher economic sanctions on syria's government after failing to boost pressure on president assad through 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 trip to damascus aimed at finding a political solution to the crisis. plus ensuring greater political involvement for the people through the internet prime minister putin laying out plans to upgrade

russian democracy a day after mass pro and anti-government rallies sweep the country. and pressure on all fronts the greek coalition government deadlocked over adopting new austerity measures to secure a second bailout while the e.u. says time for a deal for athens is running out. and coming up in the midst of sky high tensions between 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 that's coming up stay with us. when you have mistaken for a really for me hate of israeli intelligence agency the more 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 been 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. is to maintain the position to maintain power do you think iran poses an existential threat to israel and the other states in the region. i am on record as repeatedly saying that i don't think there is such a thing as you know 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 so why does these way to 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 that 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 the. apparitions 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 that 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 if iran 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 better if israel and demanded 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 we could define if county commission me as preventing war weakening iran in the case that war 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 but here again i don't think that it would be useful for me to hold lists of capabilities i think needs 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 can this time of war be killing everybody and 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 mentioned but i was serving that there is a long range of activities that have been carried on for a very very long time over a very long period of time and i think that the activity is 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 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.

capabilities or preventing capabilities to either side my guess is that in a situation like this. turkey would take a neutral position what if your mission is when you a head of them aside was to promote ties between israel and less friendly states so how would you comment upon the sea of what many say is israel's isolation particularly with regard to its former allies egypt and turkey. on this 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 two 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've 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 rain and. a genuine interest among sonny wayne ians and some israelis to promote peace i've made the rain into an 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 we 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 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 already 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 irradiance coming the saying we believe israel has a nuclear capability israel should sign the n.p.t. the emperor of 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 didn'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 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 how mass is very likely to have a new tune how will this play into israeli palestinian reconciliation if. hamas will have a new leader. secondly 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 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 my

view is that i know this is not the view which is shared by the government of israel at the moment 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 insure the basic interests of israel i find highly of me thank you very much for joining us here on r t thank you.

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the seeking to impose tougher economic sanctions on syria's government after failing to boost pressure on the assad regime 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 trip to damascus aided finding a political solution to the ongoing crisis. was ensuring greater political involvement for the people through the internet prime minister putin laying out plans to upgrade russian democracy a day after a massive pro and anti-government rallies sweep the country. and pressure on all fronts of the greek coalition government deadlocked over adopting new austerity

measures to secure a second bailout while the e.u. says time for a deal for athens to running out. kate up next with all the latest sports news stay with us. welcome to the monday night sports roundup of the top stories guilty citing supreme alberto contador is stripped of his tour de france title and picks up a two year ban for staging a drugs test. while deja vu the new york giants produce a late comeback once again to break new england tops in the super bowl twenty one seventeen. and all the truck rushes olympic high jump champion because the biggest leap of the year is the country's athletes shine in moscow. but we start citing where alberto contador has been stripped of his twenty ten to

a difference title and hundred eighty two year ban by the court of arbitration for sport after a prolonged investigation into his positive test for a performance enhancing drug the twenty nine year old spice had failed a test for ten peugeot all on route to seeing his ritual crime scene now. officially only has two of those titles and only sightings my famous race this year along with the london olympics as well as news that year italia title he claimed last year contador had pleaded not guilty to the typing charge saying he never took drugs and blamed contaminated meat for the failed test results on the next big event though the spanish well said in august. 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 after going to there should be able to compete again on the sixth of august twentieth twelve. english premier league football now and there is far as were several of the ball this monday night following an eight game ban as the reds host third place taught them with both sides targeting places in the champions league well the striker actually sounds optimistic at times have no mind games one of the his offensive gesture at some foreign fans and eight after being found guilty of racially abusing patrice evra meanwhile liverpool have not closed manchester clubs out of the domestic cup competitions and could leapfrog also interesting with a victory placed on an hour looking to do a second consecutive league double over the reds would go within two points of manchester united with a victory at home field while on sunday united missed the chance to go joint top with manchester city off the fighting back from three goals down to the penalty is a draw three three at chelsea the draw leaves united training city by two points while the blues are now only a point ahead of newcastle regained fifth spot with

a two one win over aston villa chelsea manager and rival asheboro as disappointed by the refereeing at stamford bridge. if you go one first goal is obviously a penalty and there's nothing to say about it the second one is very dubious. i don't even know if i would have the correct angle to make a decision maybe the lions will give it i'm not sure. but but it's. very very unlucky for him to give a penalty like that. not sure if he's going to give anything in the first of but there is no there is a wrong decision oh meanwhile russian champions and it will have to do with that midfield that miguel downie for their champions league round of sixteen double header against benfica starting this month the twenty eight year old has picked up a knee injury during that it's training session italy could be out for up to six months which also makes the playmaker a doubt for portugal the sum of european championships in poland and ukraine. where the new york giants are the winners of super bowl forty six quarterback eli

manning led his side to a dramatic twenty one seventeen victory over the patriots just as he did four years ago when the. it's ruined new england's perfect season well this time around the giants where the last out of the blocks of lucas oil stadium in indianapolis manning combining was that to cruise for a nine no need however new england respond this and have their noses in front at half time thanks to a field goal and a touchdown after tom brady fed danny woodhead and the momentum stayed with the patriots off to the intermission stretching that lead to seventy nine when brady fired the ball to aaron hernandez for another such down box there is still time for a fight back a pair of field goals brought the johns to within two points seventeen fifteen and they then took the lead for the late dr first in mario manningham court if thirty eight yard pass for nothing and that led to the decisive moment the patriots allowing all men ran short to school so they could get the ball back before the clock lands but the gamble didn't pay off one last possible brady files to find the

man behind rob's going casting guy and i've asked the twenty one seventeen trying for the giants and once again tonight right there brady the patriots. this isn't about one person this is about a whole team come together get this win so just proud of our guys proud of the proud the team the way we fought all year they were never got discouraged kept their faith kept their confidence in this fought to the very end 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 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'll get out we're back at some point we had a great year we just didn't make enough place today. over to golf now and what

a difference a week makes as american calls stanley has won his first title on the p.g.a. tour after coming for eight shots down on the final day of the phoenix open in arizona after spectacularly missing out in his previous event well this time last week stanleys throw away a three stroke lead on the final hole of the farmers insurance open where he went on to lose in a playoff and it didn't look like he'd be in contention this time around in the desert spencer levin here 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 and finishing with a round of seventy five while stanley was sinking the birdies his fifth of the rounds drawing him level of the leaderboard after a nice chip to the rough and he managed to keep his cool on the greens for a two shot victory kyle delighted at his change of fortune and within the space of just one tournament. now the two time defending champion sebastian vettel predicts

a very tight battle for this year's formula one title as his team red bull joined others in unveiling the new cars for the upcoming season well salva were among those pulling off the rapture in f one testing in spain the swiss based outfit finished seventh in the constructors' championship last season red bull were runaway wins with the new regulations will prevent them from using their plenty exhaust blend fuses with the cars very similar this year fans could expect a heated battle for the top of this season kicks off this training ground in love and on march the eighteenth. and finally there were mixed fortunes for russia's olympic champions at the russian winter athletics meeting in moscow and they said not a shot but walker this is going to felt ill and pulled out of her race with just metres to go for the first time in her career but michael survive has more. gold the russian winter tournaments carries no weight in the qualification points it still manages to attract the world's top letter talents a year. after year and that's jump straights are selected winners where olympic

champion and a season off recorded the best sleep in the world this season in the high jump clearing two metres and thirty six centimeters while european champion alexander should 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 at two thirty six then naturally i would not have any more to patient to keep trying maybe two thirty four would have been enough for me then i could have stopped there but i went on i will keep trying to jump of the two forty one. olympic champion a uti boards like off ski was only six hundreds of a second short of the national record finishing second to the continent's brunner shots of poland who crossed the line on one minute fifteen point six seconds third place in that events went to another russian sip on voice dog off. before bumping

into the kenyan athlete i was actually hoping for a world record at this competition i've been training very hard and i feel that i'm ready but you saw what happened to european endora long jump champion geriatrician that became a triple russian winter when or after improving her season's best by one centimeter every cording six meters eighty six centimeters at the tournaments in moscow olympic four by one hundred relay champion alexandra de joria by surprise the fans and probably herself soon after posting her personal best as well as the world's third best time of fifty one minutes and forty six seconds. i am very happy today and i did not even dream about achieving such a result this is my first cycle contact to race in full in germany to us and i believe i chased the right tactics i managed to hold on to the lead closer to the finish line and won despite the fact that my opinion fine yes stamboul the law is nine fado minutes in that sector u.k.'s 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 zero point zero one seconds behind the american winner josh norman two more commitments indoors for you my nothing trolls happen every sunday for those women and i stood up to movies you know to what in those instances what if the. no those are my priorities and will support those on the way and in the summer starts to. think about the things but now it's also for me there were no surprises in the men's five thousand meter race walk with a limp the champion valley borson topping the all russian podium. while in the women's section of this discipline russia is the favorite for gold in london and he's going to have to pull out of the race with just one hundred metres left to the finish line allowing twenty two year olds could get on to killing first price on cost free of artsy moscow. by some.

measures the same of you i can tell you larry was something along the world tell the folks in search of national commission and sovereignty this is what many scots say they want realistic is an independent scotland would be a fine. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize that everything is ok you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture.