past the hour thanks for being with us some carrots karajan you're with r t a day of common milestone after a night of election results reaction saw tens of thousands rallying for and against who believes to change around two hundred fifty overs zealous protesters all have now been released. leading u.s. senator john mccain's of calling for airstrikes still for syrian president assad out he's the first american politician to make such a call meanwhile thousands of syrians have been forced to flee to lebanon because

of the various clashes between government forces and opposition fighters. iran is to allow u.n. nuclear inspectors into a secret military facility where it's suspected that atomic weapons research is being carried out president obama is vowing to use any power necessary to stop iran getting a nuclear bomb including standing by israel despite its threats to attack these lawmakers paul. next up r.t. here is how there is a much more peaceful way to ensure iran doesn't develop a nuclear weapon so with us. we're sitting down with thomas pickering that served as ambassador to many countries including russia as well india and he also served as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations from one nine hundred eighty nine to 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 that in order to avoid a confrontation with iran the obama administration should open a plan matic channels with tehran all learn what and when and try to make some kind of a deal what kind of a deal investing we envisage a deal that might involve have in fact two parts to start with it's and 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 that fuel 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 well a road a roadblock a break between their civil program and a military nuclear program how realistic is that she think 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 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. side might didn't 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 to make split tony and plutonium is directly usable in nuclear weapons so that's very well safeguarded why did russia them come under so much attack for assisting their civil nuclear 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 in the direction only of a military weapon there is so one interesting thing about the 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 the administration pursuing policies which as if they come from the standpoint that iran has decided to go to 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 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. he 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 and you have the u.s. military saying israeli attack on iraq would be a bad idea and the word west premature and now you attach the u.s.

military i think all elements of the united states. in attack on iran on iran not only would be premature but creating 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 this 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 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 and complications in the design 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 sixty situation one result would be they would have a perfectly legitimate reason for saying we had no interest in a bob but now that we've been attacked we have really have to make a pop so it is counterproductive in the article what i found very interesting you argue that the hostility of the iranian wall are still words the u.s. is rooted in their conviction that washington wants for overthrow them one way or another i believe 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 fumes on the question and iran has sat down and catalog all the things that it sees negative about the united states overthrow of mass attack support of the shah support of iraq during the eight year war the shoot down of the airplane by the by the cruiser of incense sanctions and all of these things handling iraq iran around

what that they could prove they must want to change our government but they don't have like resist total we quickly do that first of 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 these are these are the difficult problems one has to move to have to tell you how to side 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 terry important thing that that they bring up is that. the fate of the syrian leadership should not be decided from the outside it should be decided by the course and they said negotiation they said they'd like to

see president are said 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 but that that political solution involves the opposition talking about in operation like why does the opposition refuse to talk to the government who's been refused to total and has refused to talk to president abbas or to present yes to the government exactly there was also a fear that that kind of one sided resolution could invite. any intervention and military intervention. which many analysts and you did but actually to hear 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 being. not to kill qaddafi but that's what he termed the cold true that's what my view was of what the root of the resolution in

effect if you look at political rallies a propos tickle realities would require but anyway this is not what the resolution said it was a lawyer that played back later on of course it was it was really it wasn't a lawyer it was a lawyer the way it militarily developed that way russia for reasons i don't understand and felt that the resolution 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 not 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 for the potential here here's now this very case russia sure russia wants to be a rarity in the view the interests of the syrian operators in a free syrian people and neither the americans exactly neither you or if you think you have to go talk to the people who represent the syrian exactly exactly thank you.

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carried out president obama is vowing to use any power necessary to stop iran getting a nuclear bomb including standing by israel despite its threats to attack these long ago. unions here with all the latest sport now and the golden goose has lived up to its nickname once again in russian folk yes indeed tipping he may have one of the biggest check books in football history behind him but he still has to win and he's just not in the russian president more not coming up in just a sec. if you come in a warm welcome this is for today i mean these are sporting headlines this hour. one game away is a neat sin petersburg's aim of reaching the quarter finals of the champions league for the very first time will be put on the line later today against benfica.

off to a flyer piece hitting this is victory in his first much as. the restart a russian and. i'm raring to go team. revealed there for the twenty trial formula one season which starts in the street in just over a four x. . let's start with the champions league are a must have night awaits for is a neat petersburg the russian side lead been three goals to two you from the first leg off their last sixteen clash but they're in portugal this evening the scoreline of perlis one for. charges as a one nil win for the hosts would jump is in each odds the blue lights began their domestic campaign up the weekend once again earning a shoe to drop in moscow in freakin though they've been in full form since stuff first leg defeat also losing their following three matches this spiked out zany

defender nicholas number it's expects a tough test in this but. the political positions are totally different. hopefully to give some space in the back. of a. pretty easily scorable. choose these only other champions league fixture takes place in london arsenal evening to do the new year impossible overturn a formal defeat against milan in their second leg match up at the emirates gunners boss arsene wenger stating his side will give a quarter a real go with arsenal able to take heart from recent wins over tottenham and liverpool in the english premier league. you. know we lost. their try short on time a good. fifty five position. at all.

if we can score four we can do it as world why not try. the savings first compare love match in charge of free spending and she has been a winning on the side beating dino moscow away from home in the opening phase two rounds of the russian primly richard front porch fleet spoke to the dutchman following monday's game. i think the team is. 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 strike time preparation is difficult but first of all they were very committed was trust 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 that was a big improvement and happily it showed tonight because i'm pretty new so was just

understanding each other better on the pitching in training pitch 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 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 you use because i mean even if you in the real madrid before he's going to talk about a year and on a phillips of course he's been caught for six months how much abuse during which case you know wealth course i have but i knew also other players like it will often there you 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 see love to train but also to give good information about the states of the club of use is a green zone the start of the season when this is to give hope for anything better today help because they i don't want used 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 that's why i support them and for the team that they took it against a dinner which is a which is an experience the squad and the yeah that's why i'm happy for for the boys. now the russian premier league continue don't choose to do it just the sole game for consideration in perm car entertaining pretty savvy out of summer in the final match of the opening week of phase two this siberian side taking an early lead through p.f. just seven minutes in on the home side is julie job over tally in the second time to retreat but a coffee netting just before the hour mark the visitors did pull one back through surrogate a trough but it was simply a consolation one the final score on course quest to stave off relegation just receiving a much needed boost. ok that brings us to motor sport where after

a few teething problems a russian if it. finally unveiled their car ahead of the new formula one season which starts in melbourne later this month the final test in concluded in barcelona on sunday who are the m our zero one wasn't allowed to take part after feeling one of the eighteen pre-season crash tests on monday though the u.k. based team on bail the cart silverstone because it hasn't passed all safety tests the car is limited in mileage and can only use demonstration tires rather than those allowed for racing not ideal preparation then for drivers charles pick up. after such a difficult time as you would want to be relieved to see the car going out the first goal of the absence of any problem so. little tweaks to do but it's nothing to really get the moment which is positive that shows that we did a good good work over the winter time just

a bit behind this getting out of. let's talk n.b.a. basketball where the chicago bulls show no signs of slowing down claiming their seventh win in a row thanks to victory over the indiana pacers it was a pretty close run affair during the first half of patients actually a point in front of the big break leading forty three forty two. the bulls though coming out of all guns blazing in the third quarter outscoring their opponents by twenty points lou all dang top scoring for the hosts with twenty points and self including this three pointer making it sixty four fifty one chicago the final twelve minutes then a mere formality with the illinois man benchley taking it ninety two seventy two so a seventh straight fifty three for chicago smashing the pay for sixteen winning streak in the process. to winter sports and yet another venue for the sore chill in place and twenty four thousand has been put to the test for the first time they're sliding center sonthi on feeling its track for bob and skeleton and indeed it's

a record breaker as well they one thousand eight hundred fourteen metre long track is the longest artificial one in the world and was built in just two years it's designed for olympic sliding disciplines with sixteen turns on a mock speed of around one hundred thirty five kilometers per hour the venue is unique to russia there are just fourteen such tracks in the world fully approved by the sport's international federation the russian nationals learning center will become the training camp for all who markets ahead of the sochi winter games but there's another test well ahead of. the new truck in sochi is that new or in our sport and we'll be discovered next week with international certificate. two for the ration if i b t four bob has got it on and if i. would be very clear next week with big changes that we come here to this track let's stay

with winter sports finally we're a russian capital played host to the latest stage of the snowboard world cup this weekend constantine to top off reports now on a leg that played havoc with the leaderboard. the moscow hosted a snow warning world cup stage for the third straight season and every year you then use a year's this time as if to six metre high and one hundred seventy five metre long ramp was a wreck to the stereo believe it or all the standings coming into the surround russia's equally little again was a hold favorite the disappointed and massive crowd of fans with the worst performance of the season finishing in fifteen ways with last year's winner and world cup holder over the. corner from switzerland and austria as julie luminance confidently made it to the final it was a neck to make race as the swedes took a narrow advantage in the first round and managed to make standards in the second.

arrival the twenty four year old ryder and outof still world standings in the race for the crystal the low. draw the p. eight s. trick if the crowd yeah it was the first time a pro time and. i met a. fellow i. am really happy that thank god we didn't have to rise to the. thinking of racing in the men's competition the russians be formed much better by winning to the quarterfinals but it was last year's winner on fish moller who face to see more in shock from switzerland in the decider after dominant before once in the forest or on the sailing cruise to his fourth triumph of the season the thirty two year old rider for rominger in the standings to take an orderly. fashion that race here in moscow it's one of the best races in this season and i.

put a lot of faith in a g i saw tom to prepare for this race we are. 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 the season's cormac's is mounting quickly because they got out of order . and that is where we need this for fair weather is next season.

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