it's. half past the hour now and here with the r t and a quick recap up your headlines a day of calm in moscow after a night of election results reaction sall tens of thousands rallying for and against who police to change around two hundred fifty overzealous protesters but all have now been released. leading u.s. senator john mccain is calling for airstrikes still for syrian president assad oh he's the first american politicians to make such a call meanwhile thousands of syrians have been forced to flee to love and all

because of the fierce clashes between government forces and opposition fighters. around is to allow u.n. nuclear inspectors into a secret military facility where it's suspected of that atomic weapons research is being carried out by president obama is vowing to use any power necessary to stop iran from getting a nuclear problem including us standing by israel despite its threats which are these along with the public. next party here's how there is a much more peaceful way to ensure iran doesn't develop a nuclear weapon. 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 pickering thank you very much for joining us thank you for having me you

co-wrote an audi called titled envisioning a deal with iran where he replied that in order to afford a confrontation with iran the obama administration should open the plan matic channels with tehran and learn what the rank and try to make some kind of a deal what kind of a deal do you envision we envisage a deal that might invent have in fact two parts to start with to begin with the idea that the iranians to advance 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 that fuel the proposals that we make would be to say let's give the 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 a roadblock a break between their civil program and a military nuclear program how realistic is achieved such 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 receiving 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 agreement where they don't need to get fuel russia provides the fuel and more importantly russia takes back the used fuel which afterwards used makes them tony and plutonium is directly usable in nuclear weapons so that's very well safeguarded why did russia then come under so much attack for assisting their civil new credible nuclear 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 in the direction only of a military weapon there is one interesting thing about u.s. official rhetoric towards iran 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 decided to

build a nuclear weapon and on the other hand you have to go astray say pursuing policies which as if they come from a standpoint that iran has decided to build a nuclear weapon and everybody 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 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 the nonproliferation 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 this trail the attack on iraq would be a bad idea and the word west pre-mature know you'll pass the u.s. military i think all elements of the united states. attack on iraq on 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 let me 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 really interesting thing about these really situation is as far as i can see in 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 many risks and complications and it isn't likely 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 success situation one result would be they would have a perfectly legitimate reason for saying we had no interest in a bomb but now that we've been attacked we have really have to make a bomb so it is counterproductive in the article what i found here interesting you argue that the hostility of the iranian rulers towards thank us is rooted in their conviction that washington wants to overthrow them one way or another i believe when i leave that to be true i haven't talked to iranian leaders but i've talked to people who talk to iranian. leaders who at least represent neutral few months on the question and iran has sat down and cataloged all the things that it sees negative about the united states overthrow of nasr back 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 iran iran what did they

conclude they must want to change our government but they do have like reasons why we rationally do that just as we have reasons to believe that they have had your monitoring and bishan so 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 of course wrote the course these are the difficult problems one has to move i have to tell you outside countries don't do very well overthrowing governments as both the soviet union and the united states have found out 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 poseidon from the outside it should be decided by the syrian people of course and they said 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 that that political solution involves the opposition talking about in operation little why why does the opposition refuse to talk to the governors and refuse to put it to them has refused to talk to president assad to present yes to the government exactly there was also a fear that back kind of one sided resolution could invite. any intervention and military intervention. which many analysts look at i'm going to go that's right in your theory and i understand russia's concern 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 and 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 political realities would require but anyway this is not what the resolution said it was a lawyer that play by play to one of course it was that it was really going to lawyer it wasn't lawyer that 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 in its interest 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 view the interests of the syrian people but if you're here's no gary case russia is you know sure russia wants to hear an interview the interest of the syrian operators in a free syrian people in either the americans exactly neither you or if you don't you know if you go talk to the people who represent the syrian people exactly exactly thank you.

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the day of calm in moscow on trial night of election results reaction saw plans of thousands rallying for and against police detained around two hundred fifty overzealous protesters but all have now been released. we knew was senator john mccain's calling for air strikes to force syrian president assad seems the first american politicians to make such a call meanwhile thousands of syrians hoppen forced to flee to love unarmed because of the fierce clashes between government forces and opposition fighters. iran is to allow u.n. nuclear inspectors into a secret military facility where it suspected that atomic weapons research is being

carried out president obama is vowing to use. necessary to stop iran getting a nuclear bomb including standing by israel despite its threat to attack the islamic republic. units here with all the latest sports. and a massive night out football lies ahead for russia's leading lights and yes indeed to meet some petersburg well they're going to need to be lions in lisbon tonight if they are to get club history more not just a sec. chris have you with us this is indeed sports and a plenty ahead of the next ten minutes or so including. one game away from making history's uneaten petersburg's aim of reaching the quarterfinals of the champions league for the first time is put on the line later against benfica. off to

a flier guus hiddink witnesses victory in his first marches on gene monitor in the restarted russian probably. going to go would seem to feel their new car for the twenty twelve formula one season which starts in australia in just over four. let's say calling this hour with the champions league where a must have night awaits for the needs in petersburg the russian side league three from the first leg of their last sixteen clash but they are in portugal this evening the scoreline a perilous one for the cellist eleven's charges are they one will win for the hosts jumps on a diet of blue and whites began their domestic campaign at the weekend during a two two draw with siesta and benfica have been in woeful form since the first leg feets losing their following three matches as well despite the fender nicholas long bert's expects a tough test in this book. the critical missions are told with the. hopefully

some space and nobody. cares and a lot of players from easily scorable. the only other game and choose the night to its place in london are going to do the near impossible to overturn a four nil defeat against milan in their second leg the emirates gunners boss inventor stating his side will give a quote a real go with arsenal able to take heart from recent. wins over tottenham and liverpool in the english premier league. yes. it is a real possibility of course it can for boys who do you know we lost. but. but try shots on target and. fifty five positions but we didn't play with a cool. two things that would change if we can score for we can we can say well why not. stay out of shape because he thinks first competitive match in charge of free

spending and he has been a winning one the my heart beating to go away from home in the opening phase to round out the russian premier league richard van porte fleet spoke to the dutchman following monday's game i think the team really deserves a compliment because it is 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 time preparation is difficult but. first of all they were very committed what i said which i saw in the first day but there was no balance in the 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 there was a big improvement but happily it will show tonight it was an improvement you saw it was just understanding each other better on the pitch and i'm 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 where 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 to cause some even to get in the real madrid before he's been a cop arriving here and on a full it's of course he's been a cook for six months how much do you use the ring which pays you know well for course but i knew also other players like all of. the players i knew already have to. sayes very useful roberto and i have been very close to me in training he loves to train but also he gives really good information about the states of the club but it uses a dream start to stop when does can you hope for anything better to help the course but i don't want to use it as an excuse the time of preparation was very limited and that's why i thought maybe we need some more time to get the team more established but once more this was the compliment for the team that they took it

against the denominators which is a experience they scored and the yeah that's why i'm happy for for divorce. let's talk motor sports where after some t.v. problems that russian i fit my greasy i have finally unveiled our car ahead of the new formula one season which starts in melbourne later this month final testing concluded in barcelona on sunday however the m.r.e. zero one wasn't allowed to take part after failing one of the eighteen prerequisites crash tests on monday the u.k. based team one failed a car at silverstone because it hasn't passed all those safety tests as yet the car's limited mileage of use demonstration tires rather than those are large for race is not ideal preparation for drivers charles pick a team. that we have a such a difficult time as it is one of big relief to see the car going out of her skull of absence of any problem so should the little tweaks to do but it's less

interesting at the moment which is positive and that shows that we did a good good work over the winter time just a bit behind this get to that. brings us to basketball and the n.b.a. where the chicago bulls show no signs of slowing time claiming their seventh when in a row faced a victory over the indiana pacers a pretty close affair during the first half of the pacers actually in front of the big break leading by one forty three forty two the bulls zero coming out all guns blazing in the third quarter right school. appointed by twenty points no less an all day top scoring for the holes with twenty points of self into the biggest three pointer to make it sixty four fifty one chicago in the final twelve minutes a mere formality with the illinois man eventually tickets ninety to seventy two so a seventh straight victory for chicago smushing the patients six game winning streak in the. two winter sports now and yet another venue for the sort she olympics in twenty fourteen has been put to the test for the first time this

sliding center on feeling it's trying for bob skeleton. it's a record breaker as well they're one thousand eight hundred and forty meter long trial is the longest start official run in the world sound was built in just two years it's designed for olympic sliding disciplines with sixteen turns on the mark speed of around one hundred thirty five kilometers per hour the venue is unique to russia there are just fourteen trucks in the world fully approved by the sport's international federation this complex in sort she is one of them the russian national sliding center will become the training camp for all home athletes ahead of the sochi winter games but there's another test well ahead of. then your tracking solar is the newest in our sport and it would be the next week with international certification. to federation if i get it done

and if i had followed the correct of this track it would be very clear next week with big changes that we come here that this back and let's stay with winter sports finally where the russian capital held a stage of the snowboard well up this weekend no overall choice for home plates but as constantine but top of reports it was all action on the moscow slopes. moscow hosted a snow warning world cup stage for the third straight season and every year i use this time in fifty six metre high and one hundred seventy five metre long ramp was erected neil luzhniki stadium billionaire of the standings coming into this around rushes he can see the little league it was a hotel they were but it's a pointed and massive crowd of her fans with the worst performance of the season finishing in fifteenth place with last year's winner and world cup holder over the slope but we see a corner of from switzerland and austria as julian bloom it's confidently made it

to the final it was a neck to neck race as the swedes took a narrow advantage in the first round and managed to extend it in the second to edge out a rival the twenty four year old rider amount of silver all standing from the race bullock crystal a little while to drop to create a just try to get the crowd yeah it's just the first time approach i am in a i'm happy that i quickly tell. you i'm really happy that baghdad we don't have to raise it out. there i'm not thinking about it i'm taking racing in the man's condition the russians informed much better powering to the quarter for what it was last year's winner on fish mile or. from feast to see more on shore from switzerland in the decider after doormen and informants in the force through the telling 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 lead yes but

. that race here in moscow it's one of the best races in the indices of and i. put a lot of energy also at home to prepare for this race we've. also at home moskos world cup stage made the headlines with new faces at the top of the standings and with just two races left this season's cormac's is mounting weekly his name forty. dollars all your sport for world whether it's from the up and just take and i'll see you in just under two hours time. well. science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future.

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