these are the images from seeing from the streets of canada after. the giant corporations their. headlights are here in r.t. jubilant scenes of celebration as well as protests as. russia's presidential race over two hundred arrests in moscow protesters refused to disperse after city center rally. former u.s. presidential candidate senator john mccain calls for air strikes a fully fledged military campaign against the syrian regime red cross aid finally reaches to parts of the city of homs where civilians caught between government forces and the opposition have been desperate for help.

and the bomber promises his supporters to a pro israeli lobby in washington saying the u.s. will not hesitate to use force to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons as well as long been pushing for military action against the islamic republic which critics fear will trigger disaster for the region. will stay with that story there is a way other than an attack to make sure we're on dozens of technically weapons that's an opinion voiced and all 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 going through writing that in order to avoid a confrontation with iran the obama administration should open could play magic channels with tehran all are locked in rank and try to make some kind of a deal what kind of a global investing we envisage a deal that might involve 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 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 that fuel and the proposals that we make would be to say let's give you 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 firewall a road block or break between their civil program and a military nuclear program how realistic is achieving such a deal 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. but the old u.s. policy of no enrichment in iran might well be modified if and 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 then 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 in an 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 next to 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 there are several new critically acclaimed 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 rhetoric programs they ran under 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 decided to build a nuclear weapon and on the other hand you have the administration pursuing policies

which as if they come from the standpoint that iran has decided to build a nuclear weapon and everybody 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 even if it hasn't decided you know i think that 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 on the word what's premature now you have the u.s. military i think all elements of the united states and that attack on iraq on iran

not only would be premature but crazy top u.s. intelligence officials are saying iran is unlikely to initiate a war intentionally provoke a conflict you served as the us ambassador to israel at one time u.s. and israel they're very close allies does this well really listen to washington i think it does 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 buck 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 perfection that washington wants to overthrow them one way or another how do you israel leave that to be true i haven't thought through ironically yours but i've talked to people who are. two iranian leaders who at least represent neutral on the question and iran has sat down and catalog all the things that it sees negative about the united states overthrow of mosaddegh support of the show our support of iraq during the eight year war the shoot down of the airplane by the but the cruiser have been since sanctions and all of these things

hemming iraq iran iran what did they conclude they must want to change our government but they do have like reasons to believe quickly that just is all we have reasons to believe that they have had to monica 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 course these are the difficult problems one has to 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 u.s. push for regime change in syria very important thing that that they bring up is that. the fate of the syrian leadership should not be presented from the outside should be decided by the syrian people the course of the so negotiation they said they'd like to see the president our side step aside and 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 about that political solution involves the opposition talking to the drilling operation the why why does the opposition refuse to talk to the government who's been refused to talk to the cats know their senators refused to talk to present it asked them to present yes to the government exactly there was also a fear that that kind of one sided resolution could invite. an intervention and. interventional which many and a little thing i did but i'm straining to hear you 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 immediate danger and played so plot to kill qaddafi but that's what he termed what i told you that's what my view was of what the rule of the resolution in effect if

you look at political rallies proposed tickle realities would require but anyways this is not what the resolution said it was a lawyer and that way about plato and of course it was that it was really it wasn't a lawyer it wasn't a lawyer the way it militarily developed the way russia for reasons i don't understand it filtered resolution it was used in ways that were not in its interest so then it said we're not going to vote for anything like that with respect to syria and not just its interests but also it's not in the interests of the syrian people well know in the interests of how russia pinterest into syria but it's not the same as your horrors no mary-kate russians you know sure russia they want to be married in here the interest of the syrian money brokers over syrian people and neither the americans exactly neither of you here if you know you have to go talk to the people who represent the syrian people exactly exactly thank you.

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jubilant scenes of celebration as well as protests as well in wins russia's presidential race. two hundred arrests in moscow however protesters refused to disperse after city center around it. only u.s. presidential candidate senator john mccain calls for air strikes a fully fledged military campaign against the syrian regime red cross a finally reaches to parts of the city of homs the civilians caught between government forces in the armed opposition have been tense but. president obama promises his support to a pro israeli dobby in washington saying the u.s. will not hesitate to use force to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons as well

as long been pushing for military action against islamic republic which critics fear it will trickle disaster for the region. of course over the sports news. hello welcome to the sports headlines kentucky company has what we call coming up. perfect start angie win their first competitive match under crusading as they claim a one nil victory at the numbers and the russian premier li. raring to go team over to see a reveal their new car for the twenty twelve formula one season which starts in australia in just over two weeks time. on board masters pretty akumal of switzerland on italian road and fish and find themselves on top of the current standings after the moscow leg of the snowboarding world cup. because

having got his angie managerial career off to a perfect starts as the darkest side recorded a one zero win i can honor moscow in the russian premier league on monday night both teams wasted decent chances in the first half but it was on g. who got the all important goal in the second period the ball falling invitingly as you see lie in the present and made no mistake from close range one nil how it finished then and after the match coach guus hiddink spoke to our man richard dunne hopefully. i think the team serves a compliment because in this very limited time of preparation in the past eight nine ten days it was it was difficult. and not just for four for them but having such a limited short time preparation is difficult but first of all they were very committed was the us which i saw in the first day but there was no balance in the

in the commitment and let's say the tactical 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 the children. i was a pretty soon was it just understanding each other better on the pitch and i'm training which is what i said there was no balance they were very committed and they worked harder than hearts but 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 did he use the calls so you can if you can remember to always been a clock running here and on a phillips of course he's going to clock for six months how much of use they ring which case you know well well for course i but i knew also other players like you will often there you're to see a coffin somewhere. at the place i knew already and of course a very useful roberto and i have been very close to me in training c. love to train but also he gives really good information about the stakes of the

club to muse's dreams last stop of two coming when that is a good hope for anything better. help because and 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 denominated system 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 moscow in fourth place as they drew with the muscovites one one in design challenge of open full carbon buddy ebsen after fifty seven minutes while a manual evan ek levelled matters with around ten minutes to go with this close range header so the points are shared in that run. meanwhile in the relegation play offs krasnodar have played a narrow home victory against rostov their main goal is until the last minutes of

the game pavel goal a chef with a late winner for the hosts as he scored in the ninetieth minute to give crusted all three points. meanwhile russian premier league leaders zennie are in action in the champions league later on she's day. 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 last minute strike by roman chillicothe giving the side from st petersburg the other hand an impact on their domestic league campaign at the weekend where they had a two two draw with says carr moscow and fico on the other hand have played in woeful form since that game at the petra city stadium they've lost their last three matches since that defeat our visiting defended nicholas lombards expects a tough test in this but. the critical missions are totally different. hopefully to give some space in their. careers and lot of players with an easily

scorable meanwhile arsenal have an almost impossible task in their second leg with ac milan the italians lead four nil going into the game at the emirates boss arsene wenger says his side will give it a real go and the gunners can take confidence from their recent wins over tottenham in liverpool. yes blue is a real possibility of course a few bullies who you know we lost we learned. they try shots on target and fifty five positions and we didn't play with little. two things virtual changer if we can score four we can do it as well why not. elsewhere in england chelsea's russian iran are promote it is looking for his ninth manager as acknowledges sorry nine years this after portuguese boss and various powers were sacked over the weekend following a disappointing one nil defeat to west brom a billion the job for only nine months former chelsea manager louis philippe

scolari was sacked by our promote it in two thousand and nine says the job will be hell for whoever takes over. well you know. the language has been advanced not full thirteen years in three championships or two or three cups but on still busy campaign has different ideas on. how the team should work chances cultures different somethings and outlines the relationship between the owner of. the relationship and some police. over to the ice now where in the case help playoffs of unguarded safely through to the second round after winning their fourth successive game in the best of seven series against the north came fall which took place in how about off school finished three one in favor of the side elsewhere because of taking a three one lead investigator as against defending champion kulayev following a three no victory regular season champions try also one win away from making the eastern conference semifinals as they beat you grab in their fourth k.

wild parties are the surprise leaders in their series against metal magnitogorsk because our team claim they come from behind for one victory on highlights. now in formula one after some teething problems now lucy 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.i. one wasn't allowed to take part after failing one of the eighteen prerequisite crash tests which had not passed before being allowed to compete on monday the u.k. based team finally unveiled the card silverstone because it hasn't passed all safety tests the car is limited in mileage and can only use demonstration toi is rather than i was allowed for race is not ideal preparation then for drivers shells peak and team luck. after such a difficult time as you can spare one a big relief to see that go no it's the first goal of that result any probably so

should little tweaks to do but it's less interesting at the moment which is supposed to show that we. good good work over the winter time just a bit beyond this. so the hard work where in the n.b.a. the chicago bulls have claimed their seventh win arrived with a ninety two seventy two home victory over the indiana pacers it was a pretty close affair during the first half of the pacers were actually leading up to the break forty three forty two the bulls made a breakthrough in the third quarter however scored their opponents by twenty points all day and top scored for the house with twenty points himself including this three pointer to make it sixty four fifty one to chicago in. the final twelve minutes were merely a formality as chicago held on to that late ninety two seventy two the final score as the pacers lose their six game winning streak. finally to win to sports and they snowboard world cup has two new need as patricio out of switzerland and italian

roland afficionado were in the parallel slot slalom stage in the russian capital this weekend. as the details. must co-hosted a snowboarding world cup stage for the third straight season and every year i use this time and speak to six metre high and one hundred seventy five metre long ramp was erected neil luzhniki stereo billionaire of the standings coming into this event rushes you can see the little league it was a hotel they were in the disappointed and massive crowd of fans with the worst people until the season finishing in the fifteenth place with last year's winner and world cup holder open a small but receiver cooler from switzerland and was through as julie newman it's confidently made it and if it was in excellent grace is this we stuck in there were advantage in the first round and managed to extend it in this game to hedge out a rival twenty four year old ryder now top still girl standing in the rays of the

crystal blue while to the actual drop to. the track at the ground yeah. this was the first time approach time and. i'm happy to tell. you i'm really happy to have a bank that we didn't have to raise to go out and. not thinking about and just resting in the men's condition the russians informed much better bowing to the quarterfinals but it was last year's winner won't fish mahler symphonies to see more on shore from switzerland in the decider after dominant before once in the first round the sailing cruise to his fourth triumph of the season the thirty two year old writer for the on the wrist or in the standings to take an overall leave yes. for that race here in moscow it's one of the best races in the season and i had put a lot of faith energy also at home to prepare for this race we have been also at

home video moskos world cup stage made the headlines with new faces at the top of the standings and with just two races left this season scoring which is a mountain quickly as they both are both forty. well that's all the sport for now a lot more in a couple of hours time. well . science technology innovation all the mr bellamy from around russia we've got the future covered.