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effects continue a verb orating throughout the euro zone with spain feared to be slowly succumbing to a similar fate. coming up iran secrecy over its nuclear program has so far led to crippling sanctions but threatens to end military end in military intervention up next the former head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog shares his thoughts on the issue. with the world's eyes focused on iran and nuclear issues both peaceful and normal peaceful making the headlines week after week interest in this subject is at a peak and where did many people go to try and get insight and answers but to hans blix you're a former weapons inspector diplomat and politician you've been immersed in this world for a long time thank you for joining me pleasure so we'll start off with top story

at the moment it's very difficult to tell just how serious the crisis is from week to week is it a peak is didn't trough how serious do you think it is the moment or i think it is very serious you have american aircraft carriers in the gulf you have british and french vessels in the gulf you have an iranian moral or general saying that they might close off the strait of hormuz so it is very tense and israel is saying that they should bomb iran bomb uranium nuclear installations and presidential candidate balls or seem to say yes we should be tough with iran implying that. to bomb iran it is a situation that cries for some if you see a lot of prestige and a lot of injured pride and i think the more belligerent the outside wall sounds to

iran the more the iranian population will support its government regardless of what they like or what they think about the government other respects it is a dangerous situation how likely is it that iran is really going to say well we'll play the game we'll talk the talk but really we're getting a bomb and we don't care what anyone else. iran does not need a weapon against iraq today they don't need against pakistan against russia or against turkey so i don't see that tremendous pressure this gives me some hope that it would be possible to persuade them to move out of investment or to and to ensure that there will be no bomb making the question is how you do it and i don't think it has been done with all that cleverness i haven't seen all the details but that i think it could have been done better i don't think they have behaved somebody insulting to the rain as you say iran must behave itself as if it were an unruly seven year old boy sort of

a neo colonialist tool and this doesn't help at all i think the western europeans the u.k. france and germany that were the first to go in with us at that time as a backseat driver they came up with rewards and say that yes this is enrichment is dangerous you should suspend it and we would actually give rewards for that and they came up with some useful things they said that if you would suspend enrichment we are willing to help you to get into the world trade organization that was important we are even they are willing to help you to build up there were civilian nuclear industry you want to have nuclear power no problem we are not against high technology in iran we are worried about enrichment and they said we can facilitate investments in iran so there was some good this actually in their own tables and i think that with bush administration was more dedicated to sticks. to a carrot so they begin with some economic sanctions and some sanctions of traveling of urine and so forth. course we want to hear that yes we have to push more for

sanctions that we have run the diplomatic path and then the sanctions remain the sound now we're talking about stopping all importing and maybe bombing but i think they're lost that imagination there are still things that can be done on the reward side have there for instance said to the rain is that if we have a settlement. u.s. will resume diplomatic relations. have this said that if you want to have a pipeline from from iran to india well it was a settlement you could have it so there are some things that could be put on the table in a discussion the biggest thing i think would be if this radius were to come up and say that look we are worried about your retirement we think you might use a bomb against us how about a swap we drop do away with our military our nuclear weapons and you will stop all the richmond and its saudi arabia egypt turkey all the others they agreed to commit we will have no regrets but we have no reprocessing that is what you call

a nuclear weapon free zone for the middle east and i think that's where the aim should be but if i mention that today they would love it well this is the point i mean i let me just play devil's advocate with you for a minute that is one view nuclear free zone but as you say at the moment there wouldn't be this crisis if there wasn't the perception that iran is heading towards getting a nuclear weapon so some people have said that well perhaps it might be a good thing if iran had nuclear weapons perhaps it might be a useful thing. i don't think so i think that any spread and the further spread further spread of nuclear weapons is not a good thing it is dangerous when there are many fingers on the nuclear triggers and i don't like the israeli finger i don't like the indian pakistani u.s. or any of the things i bring which will reduce them at the same time i don't think that it's the world's and if iran were actually to come to

a nuclear weapon israel says is the existential question for them i think not i think that the do terence will act between israel and iran as it acts between india and pakistan. i think the israeli nuclear weapons would be somewhat neutralized in their effect by the existence of a weapon in iraq in iran i can see the risk that iran would peddle its nuclear secrets technology to other groups but that exists already so i don't think i don't think the world comes to an end with a nuclear having said that i think it is highly desirable that iran moves away suspend the enrichment on that point that is a lot of your career has been spent looking at that very question how do you verify that how do you know where is the technical scientific evidence well the actual making

a bomb is not an easy thing i have not made one. lawyer not not an engineer it's not an easy thing but it's been judged that the most crucial element of the bomb after all is the explosive material and that is either enrich uranium to something like ninety percent or it is plutonium and the iranians can enrich to twenty percent we know that they could to ninety percent if they wanted to so the crucial point remains do they enrich to more than twenty percent do they stay at this and it is supervision of that in that respect i think we must say that everything is have been fairly good they have allowed inspection they have not declared all that they should i think they have not lived up to their obligations under the safeguards agreement but they do inspectors are there and i think they can they have the means of seeing how much are they are reaching to what level all the rich are so long as the inspectors are there then the world will be assured that no they are not accumulating but here but of course they could they could throw out the

inspectors one day or they could i don't think they can cheat very much many critics of inspection process is under diplomatic efforts would say that well this is really just a two. of nato of the u.s. and they're just there to get reasons to get excuses either for intervention or sanctions what do you think about no i'm a strong believer in inspections international civil service. international an objective or. non political civil service that seeks they or be active is something we need. and we don't need we don't want to have a civil service that applies to the american heart when we were in new york i think we were given credit for trying to get to the truth i think we deserve that we were absolutely trying to get to the facts you cannot be

a hundred per cent but when you compare to what the u.s. and u.k. were saying about the situation in iraq and what we were saying we were much much closer to the truth the reality is you know if a doctor cannot have a good therapy unless he has a good diagnosis and if government sit there then make the wrong diagnosis about it is about iraq where about iran well how can you have a good therapy you as a as a civil service however you'd like. to call it give a diagnosis and as far as you're concerned the powers that be can do what they want with that but as you said. perhaps those diagnosis have been misused. what do you think may be what you think is going wrong that there's a new element also in the picture and that is that came off tonight in ninety one because in ninety ninety one we realized that iraq just had been cheating we went

to declared installations but not to other places and they were building things elsewhere so we said if intelligence knew about this if the cia knew about these things they should tell the i can then ask the iraq and say that look we have heard this we would like to go there and therefore you say there is nothing in them lift letters in so we then encouraged us and others to come with intelligence to the and they have done that great deal with iran now the i.a.e.a. for the i.a.e.a. this should be a one way traffic if the i.a.e.a. should not be the prolonged arm of the cia because then it loses the confidence of the countries they go to but they can't receive it they can critically examine it and of course the cia intelligence can always try to fool everybody off with information maybe to. maybe this information and therefore they have to examine it critically if we in new york during the iraq crisis had accepted the intel so yeah well they say it so it must be so then of course we would have failed the i think

has been very cautious with about the information they received about iraq so the combination of the national states and the inspectors who are there legally on the site is a very very useful well the world doesn't seem to be getting any simpler but we thank you for helping to make it a little bit more sense of it so mr blix trying much like. in the. real bible before war lords war criminals we have a lot of illegal cold groups. called citizens whose whose balls are due to the who have more rights you know just my mother it was like many of them out age that wasn't forced marriages with maddie when i was fourteen years so you can liberate

other women and you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun only effective social changes can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe i'm going to stun them not to the cross part of. the part of the patient it's chemical pollution and that a construction company stop people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan.

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. sports or not to you thanks for joining us this coming up in the program. while convert goodness we speak exclusively to the newly appointed head coach about his job in the darkness on a club not only. sports on live appalled by championship side cardiff on penalties at wembley to win the league top. piece of silverware since two thousand and six. hundred fifty two two hundred forty nine where speeds for the second straight here in the n.b.a. it's all star game kobe bryant and kevin durant's shining for the winners. who will first have won the final friendly game ahead of the resumption of the russian

premier league season next week and be two craning side arsenal cave three mail in turkey and antes richard ron paul has spoken exclusively to their newly appointed manager guus hiddink who started a conversation by asking about the club's most recent signing defender christopher floor bradburn. what i heard from from the president through my coaching go that it was only the latest hours in the ladies' minutes before the deadline of friday night yesterday and also all of his coming in so we have two two people coming in extra it was a latests latest call of course he is an experienced player is playing really quite a lot of games in the premier league and this is one of the or maybe the best league in the world so you've got a lot of experience i think also a lot of of dynamic and personality and character to the team as well because we

are of course looking for the balance. here let's say the mental power tactical power and he's experienced i mean with under a shove and you make an attempt to try and sign him finally well under him we have frequent contact and well he he can he was welcome in but we have to see what will happen with him in the future was gone like there's a need for the remainder of this season to get me from well he says it's his home and he did very well in the first part office staying in london i met him several times also over there it was good to see him and give also good name to russian football in general brought yeah it was always good to see good players in russia and once he's come back on his level yeah then he can be very useful for us in the who what when wrong and you think over the last year or so with underachieving i don't know if a lot of things went wrong but he started very well in premier league and it's too

far away to give a proper judgment about that but obviously in a team he was in and out and maybe it didn't work out as well as it should be in the last month. we've been named head coach when i make it easier to bring in top name players specifically world class training like think about helm term that will help their tracks. might help it might help but at the end the players must be convinced that it's a serious i'm a serious person but the clip also is a serious club now i think that's that that helps of course we have a lot of contacts worldwide but i just don't want to just on bringing foreign of foreigners foreigners for me for russia and for now and for the future the world cup is coming up and more progress in football we have to emphasize also on the youth education and so i'm not focusing with my name worldwide on big players of

course but also in saying slipstream also young promising russian players. liverpool have won the first trophy in six years after lifting the cup at wembley that suffered a dramatic three two pounds a victory the championship side cardiff city nothing separated the stars in normal time or extra time meaning a shootout not true was decisive it was that welsh cooperate took a surprising lead in the first half when joe manchin picked up a can of food ball seven time when is levelled matters midway through the second hard defender martin st tell the acting quickest to make it one zero after i flick it for three extra time then i thought i'd want it for liverpool before i dramatical eyes are from ben turner making it to all meaning penalties and what day of mixed emotions for the family and missed penalty for cardiff the transfer

ever pulled one three two and seven to lift the cup. i. do so before it was the. way you lived through probably for a few whom you have to work through. to the moment you're going on some you know off the next season or are going to put you through. a recruiter who. falls on sunday much sooner to close the gap on leaders manchester city back to two points in the english premier league after winning two one at norwich trying to celebrate his appearance for the club with the winning goal in the late game of the day bates who won't see nail fantastical came from two goes down against talking them in a remarkable north london job at the emirates two it finished in favor of the

gunners who moved back into the champions league places then that trail third place just points but have them firmly in the side according to manager. possible. of course why not but. you know as much as before the game it was impossible. possible could be don't do consistency because everybody in the premier league know. points so if you seem to start with. could you could you but. to the hardwood now where kobe bryant and kevin durant were the cream of the n.b.a. crop as that pair helped the western conference stars beat their rivals in the all star game earning the games to end the onus while bryant became the top scorer in

the event's history the clippers. story and the dynamic duo of chris and les griffin once again put on a show for the fans in florida meanwhile asked michael jordan to become the top scorer ever in an all star events finished with twenty seven points while duran got to six hundred fifty two to one hundred thirty nine the final score there with the western conference team preparing for the second straight year by drunks at the local to get the chance to shine brightest on such a huge stage. is exciting thrilling to be named or store but to step it up and become a v.p. this is always something to dream about. come from work come from i don't think i'll be here so. it's just been a blessing to me i'm excited. to get back to the city as well. in tennis australia has overcome a broken toe to claim his fourth career title he beat canadian miller's seven five

seven six to win the regents morgan keegan championships in memphis the thirty year old has won a title since winning in. hometown of vienna in tiny town and back injuries have made him slip to thirty eight in the world rankings over the last twelve months. had one. straight shot to a single break in the open and served it out with an ace before winning second set tiebreaker five seven six the final score talked about it joked he might break the tournament and says he is delighted to see the truth. i am delighted i have played a really good match today against that big serving guy and i kept myself together i knew it i'm not going to get a lot of chances to break points i think a converted number. i'm really pleased with the way up late specially coming back in the second breaker was hydraulically i'm really happy. let's move to the.

time in the kontinental hockey league or the last sixteen past have been defined and there's one fixture attracting the most attention it's so i want to live against bars the defending champions will go face to face with the two times regarding top cow just to get in the first round of the. other fixtures regular season winners trying to take on you grow up while the western conference champions . played moscow the first games will take place on the twenty ninth of february. and finally in the american john hart has won the golf classic event in mexico to collect the title the winner had to endure an eight playoff marathon the american closed the regular part of the competition with an eight part exactly the same result by robet. in the playoffs the two leaders were never going to give up as their play remained equal through

their first seven extra miles but eight got into trouble from where they failed to skate road is part perfectly to secure his first win and. having done it in just fifty events. lost for words. i can't say anything we're now. it's my fifth event and. you know it's my dream to play in this tour and. you know when this time it's to me. but to wait a toll so that's all the sports news for the moment i'll be back and toss time with more for you stay with us.

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