he. made headlines around the r.t. dozens of arrests as rallies both in support of and against but you know who to root for russia after he's named president for a third term. former u.s. presidential candidate senator john mccain of course the airstrikes in a fully fledged military campaign against the syrian regime red cross aid funny reaches two parts and since you are civilians caught between government forces and the armed opposition desperate for help. president obama promises his

support to a pro israeli lobby in washington saying the u.s. will not hesitate to use force to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons israel has long been pushing for military action against the islamic republic which critics fear will trigger disaster for the region. and staying with that story there is a way other than attack to make sure brown doesn't technically weapons that's an opinion voiced in our special interview coming up next. we're sitting down with thomas pickering that served as ambassador to many countries including russia israel india and he also served as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations from one thousand nine hundred ninety two ninety ninety two and best of pickering thank you very much for joining us thank you for having me you co-wrote an article titled envisioning a deal with iran where you are writing that in order to avoid

a confrontation with iran the obama administration should open could play magic channels with tehran and learn right away. and try to make some kind of a deal what kind of a global vision we envisage a deal that might in fact have in fact two parts to start with begin with the idea that the iranians advanced two years two months ago that they would stop enriching uranium to twenty percent if we on our side maybe the p five plus one russia china the united states britain and france and germany would provide the fuel elements those pieces of the reactor that they use to make medical isotopes for their population they now have run out of fuel and the proposals that we make would be to say let's give iran what it says it wants which is a civil nuclear program but let's do our best to create the maximum amount of effective inspection so that's a fire wall a road a roadblock

a break between their civil program and a military nuclear program how realistic is achieved such an appeal today i mean how big is the resistance among u.s. policymakers if you talk to me a year ago i would've said pretty high but since then several things have happened just two or three months ago secretary clinton made a speech in which there was certainly a clear hint that the old. u.s. policy of no enrichment in iran might well be modified if a deal could be struck so that the u.s. would become satisfied that iran was proceeding in an open way in a transparent way and that would give some confidence that the u.s. might turn agree to a continuing civil program one of the problems about a civil program is that iran only has one reactor and that i think thankfully

because it was provided by russia is bound up a new agreement where they don't need to get fuel russia provides the fuel and more importantly russia to expect the used fuel which if the reeds used makes them tony and plutonium is directly usable in nuclear weapons so that's very well safeguarded why they were so then come under so much attack for assisting their civil nuclear and we'll clear program because at the time it became increasingly clear that their civil program was at least in part being used as a springboard for investigating items and things which go beyond the civil program and in the direction only of a military weapon there is one interesting thing about u.s. official graduate programs they ran on the one side you have on the one hand you have the pentagon and u.s. intelligence community saying that they don't believe iran has even the site it to build a nuclear weapon and on the other hand you have the administration pursuing policies which as if they come from a standpoint that iran has decided to build

a nuclear weapon it already is sure about it and they want to stop it do you think that that kind of approach might actually push it ran closer to the idea of getting a bomb even if it hasn't decided you know i think very little that we could do short of an israeli or u.s. military attack on iran would push iran any closer to a decision to make a nuclear weapon and i agree with your statement however you ought to know that iran. is also bound by the nonproliferation treaty and then on proliferation treaty says you have a civil program which meets civil needs only and doesn't do things that could be used only for military purposes you have the u.s. military saying and its trail the attack on iraq would be a bad idea and the word what's premature to us now with your i think all elements of the united states and attack on iraq only iran not only would be premature but

crazy top u.s. intelligence officials are saying iran is unlikely to initiate or intentionally provoke a conflict you served as the us ambassador to israel at one time and obviously the u.s. and israel they're very close allies does israel really listen to washington i think it does but sometimes when it feels itself in extreme danger it takes its own advice and really interesting thing about these really situation is as far as i can see and people have been very clear in saying this that the heads of the three israeli intelligence service don't seem to be recommending a military attack they seem to be against it for good reasons it involves many too many risks some complications and it is unlikely to achieve in any serious and continuing way the objective of stopping the iranian program in fact i believe if you were to attack iran militarily under the current situation one result would be

they would have a perfectly legitimate reason for saying we had no interest in a bar but now that we've been attacked we have really have to make a so it is counterproductive in the article what i found very interesting you argue that the hostility of the iranian dollars towards the u.s. is rooted in their conviction that washington wants to overthrow them one way or another how do you say i don't believe that to be true i haven't thought through ironically years but i've talked to people who talk to iranians. leaders who at least represent neutral on the question and iran has sat down and cataloged all the things that it sees negative about the united states overthrow of nasr direct support of the shah support of iraq during the eight year war the shoot down of the airplane by the cruiser of incense sanctions and all of these things hemming iraq and iran around what did they conclude they must want to change our government but

they do have like reasons to believe personally that first of all we have reasons to believe that they had germanic ambitions that they have no interest in working with the united states that they want to develop a nuclear weapon so these are the difficult problem to protect them from being of course wrong these are course these are the difficult problems one has to move have to tell you outside countries don't do very well overthrowing governments as both the soviet union and the united states of felt that we don't necessarily get to choose who will be the permanent successors it's not a good idea i've been around diplomacy for a long time let's talk about the west's push for regime change in syria a very important thing that that they bring up is that. the fate of the syrian leadership should not be poseidon from the outside of should be decided by the syrian people of course in the same negotiation they said they'd like to see president are so to step aside in his vice president whoever it is take over but

this is preparation obviously for a negotiated solution has to be a negotiated solution well what bet that political solution involves the opposition talking to like an operation but why why does the opposition refuse to talk to the government who's been refused to total it has no personal refused to talk to present it asked to present yes to the government exactly there was also a fear that that kind of hindsight a resolution could invite. an intervention a military intervention. many analysts will tell you to be going after the injury and i understand russia's concerns if they actually believed that the original resolution in libya was not going to invite some kind of intervention the resolution was to protect civilians from you need. not to kill qaddafi but that's what he turned what i told you that's what my view was of what the resolution in effect if you look at political rallies a propos to call realities would require but anyways this is not what the

resolution said it was a lawyer and that way back later on of course it was but it was really it wasn't a lawyer it was a lawyer and the way it militarily developed that way russia for reasons i don't understand and felt the federal reserve lucian was used in ways that were not new centrist so then it said we're not going to vote for anything like that with respect to syria just its interests but also it's not in the interests of the syrian people you know in the interests of how russia you know the interests of the syrian people but it's the same as here who are just not necessary because russia is sure russia wants to be a rare interview the interest of the syrian operators and if a syrian people in either the americans exactly neither you everything you have to go talk to the people who represent the syrian people exactly exactly thank you.

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century military bases the network of military bases all around the world forms the new empire that the united states is trying to do that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around them and. we don't have a problem bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in in the last five or the noises i would north of symbolism bother us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for the speed of the day since the into world war two the spaces i've been doing. we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. to. be

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dozens of arrests as rallies both in support. putin russia to his name president for a third term. former u.s. presidential candidate senator john mccain calls for strikes on police pledging military campaign against the syrian regime red cross aid funny reaches to parts of the city of homs the civilians caught between government forces and on the opposition desperate for help. and president obama promises his supposed to crow is ready in washington saying the u.s. will not hesitate to use force to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons israel is known to be pushing for military action against the stuff which critics fear

will trigger disaster for the region. but up next for this house for its knees. how i welcome to the world of sports here's what we've got coming up. perfect start angie win their first competitive match under crusading as they claim a one nil victory at the nama in the russian from ealing. raring to go team out to see a reveal that you call for these twenty twelve formula one season which starts in australia in just over two weeks time. and poor masters patricia cooper of switzerland italian roll and fish an all out by themselves on top of the current standings after the moscow leg of the snowboarding world cup.

but for us this hitting got his angie managerial career off to a perfect start as they dug a stunning side recorded a one away in a dinner moscow in the russian premier league on monday night both teams wasted decent chances in the first half but it was angie who got the all important goal in the second period the ball falling invitingly as you see right in the brazilian made no mistake from close range one nil how it finished and after the match coach guus hiddink spokeswoman which of unfortunate. i think the team really deserves a compliment because in its very limited time of preparation in the past eight nine ten days it was it was difficult. and not just for for for them but having such a limited short time preparation is difficult but first of all they were very committed was us which i saw in the first day but there was no balance in that in the commitment and let's say the technical way i like them to play but in the in

the last let's say three four days i think that was a big improvement and happily it showed it show tonight. it was an improvement you saw it was just understanding each other better on the pitch and in training pitch what i said there was no balance they were very committed and they worked harder than hearts but the hard work you must do with not just with your heart which i like very much but also with your head and i think the balance between heart and head was what's coming the last ace how much to use because it's really going to be in the real madrid always be the top running here and on the phillips of course he's going to look for six months how much abuse during which places you know well of course i but i knew also other players like to pull off and you're to see a coffee somewhere. at the place and i knew already of course a very useful roberto and i have been very close to me in training z. loves to train but also he gives look good information about the stakes of the club

but abuse is a dream star says we can win this is to give hope for anything better today help because i don't want to use that as an excuse the time of preparation was very limited and that's i thought maybe we need some more time to get the team more established but once more this was a compliment for the team that they took it against the dinar more which is a which is an experience the squad and the yeah that's why i'm happy for for the boys. well elsewhere on monday rubin failed to catch spartak moscow in fourth place as they drew with muscovites one warning because roman shutdown of open for car bomb buddy ebsen man after fifty seven minutes while a manual and the nikkei levelled matters with around ten minutes to go with this close range header so the points of chad in that one. meanwhile in the relegation playoffs president claimed a narrow home victory against rostov the late goal listen to the last minutes of the game pavel goal is jeff with the late winner for the hosts there as he scored

in the ninetieth minute to give president are the win. meanwhile domestically legal leaders any reaction in the champions league later on tuesday as his men are in portugal to play the second leg of their last sixteen tie with benfica the reigning russian premier league champions take a slender three two lead to portugal a loss really struck by roman shellac of giving the home side from simply to spread the upper hand in a big on their domestic league campaign the weekend the two two draw with tesco moscow i think being in woeful forbes inside game at the patrol stadium i've lost the last three games since that defeat however is any different than the cross longboards expects a tough test in this group. before the conditions are totally different. have to come hopefully to get some space in the back and. cares and the players who can pretty easily score

a goal well arsenal have an almost impossible task in their second leg with ac milan the italians lead for no going into the game at the emirates boss hours and then just as his side will give it a real go in the gun is can take confidence from their recent wins over tottenham and liverpool fears there is a real possibility of caution for boys who blew you know we lost to be learned but . they try shots on target and. different position and we didn't play well at all. to feel free to change work if you can school food we can do we can as we were going to look at least we'll throw elsewhere in england chelsea's russian owner roman are promoted it is looking for his eighth manager in nine years they started portuguese boss and very villas boas was sacked over the weekend following a disappointing one nil defeat to west brom he's been in the job for only nine months for the chelsea manager louis philippe scolari he was sacked by a row rich in two thousand and nine so the job will be hell for whoever takes over

. well you know the atheling has been it's arsenal full of thirteen year old wants to all three championships or two or three cups it's arsenal as a club and has a different idea on should work and how the team should work chances car to different somethings and i don't like the relationship between the mortgage and this new relationship with some middle east people the kind of. over the ice now where in the k h l playoffs are unguarded safely through to the second round not so after winning their fourth successive game in the best of seven series against them or game four which took place in her battle last finished three one in favor of the side elsewhere at pars have taken a three one lead in their series against defending champion salazar kulayev following a three wheeled victory regular season champions turner also one win away from making the eastern conference semifinals as they beat you in their fourth game. the

surprise leaders in their series against not allowed magnitogorsk because that same claimed a come from behind victory on home ice. is now in formula one office and teething problems mountains here have finally unveiled their car ahead of the new season which starts in melbourne later this month final testing concluded in barcelona on sunday however the n.r. one wasn't allowed to take part after failing one of the eighteen prerequisite crash tests on monday the u.k. based thing finally unveiled the car at silverstone because it hasn't passed all safety tests the car is limited in mileage and could only use demonstration tires rather than those alfa race is the ideal preparation then for drivers charles peak until one o'clock. i mean after such a difficult time as you can spare on a big relief to see the car going out doing a cup first goal of absence of any problems so far should their little tweaks to do

but it's less interesting get a moment which is positive that shows that we. good good work over the winter time just a bit behind schedule. so that i would now where in the n.b.a. the chicago bulls have climbed the seventh win in a row with a ninety two seventy two hundred victory over the indiana pacers it was a pretty close affair during the for. the pacers were actually leading a half side forty three forty two to score the bulls made a breakthrough in the third quarter hour school scoring their opponent's quite twenty points throughout their top scores for the hosts with twenty points and self intruding this three pointer to make it sixty four fifty runs of chicago like the final twelve minutes was merely a formality as the bulls held onto ninety two seventy two the final score was the pacers lose their six game winning streak. finally to with the sports and the snowboard world cup has two new leaders whom of switzerland and italian roland

fission are one the parallel slalom stage held in the russian capital this weekend . has the details. must go hosted a snow warning world cup stage for the third straight season and every year i use this time next week to six metre high and one hundred seventy five metre long ramp was a wreck to the stereo billionaire all the standings coming into this around russia's equally little it was a hotel they were disappointed and massive crowd of fans with the worst performance of the season finishing in fifteenth place with last year's winner and world cup holder the slow but receiver corner from switzerland and wants to. confidently mated to before i know it was a neck to make race is this we stuck and there were advantage in the first round and managed to extend it in the second to a rival twenty four year old rider now top still girl standing so in the race for

the crystal a little while to get drawn to it just check it in the crowd yeah this was the first time approach and. i'm happy. to tell. you i'm really happy that bank that we don't have to race it out. they are not thinking about it and take racing in the man's condition the russians informed much better following to the quarter for an old but it was last year's winner on fish mile or face to see more in shock from switzerland in the decider after dominant before once in the first round the italian cruise to his fourth triumph of the season the thirty two year old writer for the under is warming or in the standings to take an overall lead. for that race here in moscow it's one of the best races in this season and i. put a lot of faith energy also told to prepare for this race we have been also at home

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