talk about the headlines for you now care about. afghanistan security will be in local hands next year as the british and american leaders confirm that meeting in washington investigation is also possible assassination attempt against the u.s. defense secretary during his visit. syrian troops advance to several flashpoint cities a year off the conflict erupted position calls on forces to move in the president

has responded positively during next peace proposals which include an immediate cease fire both sides. and legal immigrants coming to new chainset should work dreams ending in poverty. deportation. for training. president obama's initial offer dialogue with iran and its nuclear program descended into the more confrontational we're getting today. r t is sitting down with trita parsi president of the national iranian american council and author of the new book a single roll of the dice obama's diplomacy with iran mr parsley thank you very much for joining our team today thank you for having me mr percy when u.s. president barack obama stepped into the white house and early two thousand and nine

he saw for a new approach with iran he extended his proverbial hand and said america was willing to sit down for direct talks with its long time adversary how is it that three years later the u.s. seems closer to war with iran than it was during the bush administration it's an interesting story and it's a story that i tell in the book based on all the interviews with folks from the white house as well as the iranian negotiators and other actors who have been involved in this from the europeans to these ratings it's a story of a president that enough in my assessment was genuine about diplomacy and wanted to pursue words but also knew that you know the very limits of political space and political time to do so and that political space was very quickly eaten away by several different factors some of them he had no control over there was pressure from israel there was pressure from congress there was pressure from saudi arabia

even some of the europeans were very concerned about the extent of the diplomacy that obama was willing to engage in and then there was of course the election scandal in iran with a massive human rights abuses that followed but really there are a lot to limit his political space by the time he managed to get everyone to the table in october two thousand and nine. the policy according to one senior obama administration official that i interviewed had become a gamble on a single role of the congress he either had to work right away or not at all a bomb and he did a quick result because he had only one year in his own mind to prove his critics in washington that diplomacy could yield something by the time he got to the table was already october ten months of his presidency has passed and he needed equipment or he didn't get it and as a result four weeks later it was ministration essentially abandons diplomacy and there's the sanction track so you're saying he caved to external pressures that

said one very important factor of course is other people inside the obama white house who were probably very loyal to the president great think it is fair to wonder how committed they were to his vision of diplomacy since there's no track record of them prior to that having supported products and he hired some some of those individuals and put him in a very high places and i think when push comes to shove it becomes important what the viewpoints of these advisors are as well particularly when it comes to the question how much more patients are we willing to hire and those circumstances if there are a lot of people who may not hundred percent share the vision the first thing that suffers the first thing that is sacrifice is patience and patience is a critical component of any successful negotiation all the negotiations at the united states has pursued successfully with countries that have been enemies and in transferred into becoming friends have taken a minimum of four years he said it was a small window of opportunity where the quality really could have been very

effective leading up to the last round of international sanctions against iran but then the obama administration could not capitalize on what happened what would you had is their odds on sixteenth of may two thousand and ten president lula of brazil goes to go on for a state visit schedule months in advance. and the day after eric bana turkey comes in as well and they have an eighteen hour marathon negotiation with the iranians trying to get the iranians to agree to a deal based on the benchmarks that russia and the united states have put in front of iran in a photographer two thousand i thought maybe five plus one but it's a russian american proposal that they're at its core and in their proposal the idea was to get twelve hundred kilos of eliyahu out of iran in one shipment and the lawyers will get their fuel perhaps back a year later in this variation the fuel will be put in turkey in escrow so if the west remade on the deal the iranians can get fairly you back this was

actually a proposal that the president the united states had and the worst and a meeting with turkey and brazil on april thirteenth in washington d.c. for the zero summit the new craziness and what the turks and brazilians did not know however was that on the friday before this sunday that lula arrived in tehran to start negotiations. russia and china had agreed to a sanctions draft in the security council the sanctions deal essentially were made and then by the time the goetia is recoup it and the brazilian foreign minister calls secretary clinton and explains the deal and explains the details he's shocked that she rejects it and he tells her but we follow the letter to president obama had sent from april twentieth in which the brazilians were asked to get twelve hundred he goes out put it in a school in turkey and then the iranians would get a few months back about a year later but when faced with

a choice between new sanctions or a diplomatic breakthrough in the nuclear program it was a demonstration by may two thousand and ten and chose the sanctions because they have run out of political space and that's where we are right now the iranian nuclear program has progressed tensions between the us and iran in the world has increased were on the brink of war the nuclear program has not stopped in any way shape or form and the iranians are on the far more pressure than they have ever been before but they're still not yielding i think of you many experts in the past few weeks about the circumstance surrounding israel and iran and many of them believe that it that israel may our really strike against iran before the election in november and if that's the case the u.s. can be drawn into a military conflict for for at war with iran do you think that will happen i think the risk of an israeli military strike is higher than it has been in the past i

still would not believe that it is above fifty percent and in fact i would put it below twenty percent i would put it below twenty percent twenty percent is high enough but i'm just saying i would not put much higher than god and the reason for that is we have seen this pattern in the past in which the israelis are made a lot of threats about potentially attacking iran and the primary purpose of that has been so. pushing out as states and the europeans to impose more sanctions on iran and to either utilize the american military option or at a minimum make sure that they don't agree to a compromise with the iranians now the reason why it is different this time around is precisely what you hinted out there is an election in the united states that political backlash for the israelis if they were to do something that the us military does not want israel to do the political backlash for that would be at its minimum in an election year particularly when you have republican candidates using

every trick there is quite. aggressive and have almost position themselves to the rights of but never enough and so there is that element that creates a higher risk but i think the us military has done something quite interesting here bomb administration is quite quite interesting in the past month and a half there's been a whole set of our records in major u.s. newspapers with military folks questioning the very existence of an israeli military option. the u.s. government essentially is in there actually undermining the very belief that israel can do this and that is harming israel's military credibility in the terms that's quite a blow to the israelis moreover the u.s. military or your mistress of officials have come out and said that they believe israel is behind the assassination of iranian scientists in collaboration with the iranian terrorist organization called in which i mean a car that's

a blow to israel's moral standing so there is quite a thug of war between the obama administration and the netanyahu government and which the war ministration feels that israel is trying to push them into war and they're pushing back in a matter of actual have long term consequences for u.s. israeli relations whereas obama's support of same with iraq right now how would you sum it up i think obama's diplomacy with iran right now is not where it should be but i think the administration is trying to see if another round of talks can be created. probably in istanbul sometime in april or in may the question is this we cannot succeed in resolving this issue if the diplomacy only ends up becoming one of meetings in which the two sides exchange ultimatums that's not the promise and that's not negotiations we need a real thorough process of the american activities in which both sides and the iranians need to do this as well are willing to take risks for peace that is higher

than the risks that they have so far taken for the status quo or even for escalation so far we have not seen it's going to take a long time in the saga a lot of political determination behind it and it's have to be the administrations on both sides are going to have to accept that it is going to be a politically risky and costly endeavor for them to do so you don't end the thirty three year old enmity without expecting that it's going to cost you something as a person thank you very much for implying.

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in search of work or finding their dreams ending in home. because many have no idea . hello welcome to the world of sports it's cool to have you company people coming out. pain in spain moscow's champions league journey is over for another year at least following a full on defeat to real madrid in the spanish capital. all set world number one novak djokovic she was taken all the way to three sets by spaniard. on his way to the last eight in indian wells. and darkest on the limpid legacy our team travels to the russian republic to look at the region's a limpet success past present and future. but for us to ask our

moscow have been knocked out of the way for champions league a full under feint to nine times winners a real madrid in the spanish capital one to five two loss on aggregate well gonzalo higuaín spurs passed right put the spanish side ahead and it was a link they never relinquished two goals from christiania were now there when a strike from substitute carrying benson are just thirty three seconds after coming on ensured that you're on sausages goal that sas car was no more than a consolation. if it suited it would have made mistakes and we've given real madrid players the chance to sack if we had not made so many mistakes we would have had a few chances but it's very difficult this really given our rivals chances and we cannot hope that they will not make the best of it. meanwhile chelsea completed a quite remarkable turnaround against napoli trailing three one from the first leg they forced extra time thanks to goals from didier drogba john terry and frank land

part penalty for branislav ivanovic scored a dramatic win in extra time possibly in holland in three money. players chances of getting the job full time. but you know i don't really. think about myself just i'm just focused on trying can we name for chelsea football club going to get the best of the players. for free when snow in free games can see the one goal schools. with old woman on the wall my mind is focusing. meanwhile tonight is the europa league which takes center stage with both english representatives looking to come from behind after both suffered somewhat surprising defeats in their first legs manchester united went down three to the spanish side athletic bilbao at old trafford seven days ago so alex ferguson's men travel to spain without the injured phil jones nani and anderson who antonio valencia returns after

a hundred strong injury for the la liga side are undefeated at home in six european much it's. such our first goal beyond us playing that. with a record away from home to europe helps as well to the last few years away from home . software that is going to let rodgers truce first grade a good performance well manchester city have home advantage in their second leg with portuguese side sporting lisbon they trailed one nil roberto mancini's men are unbeaten at home in sixteen european matches but lost in the premier league at the weekend to swansea city it was a result which saw them slip off top spot for the first time in five months but it can't run won't be a distraction according to the boss. we need to play all the time when we can think we don't all we want to win this game because it is rational for a purely. squad.

one. champion she went on they finally. believe. media is now in tennis novak djokovic has branched into the quarterfinals in the indian wells open by beating pablo on the horror of spain although it wasn't all plain sailing for the world number one who dropped his first set of the tournament the top seeds. in style six love for the spaniard managed to take the second set on a tie break top of its return to his regular game in the decider winning its incompetent fashion six of six seven six two the final score another scrying with nicolas almagro is up next for the world number one. in while second seed rafael nadal is also safely through to the last eight the world number to claim things in six three six two victory over alexander dog a poll of ukraine there are will face david nalbandian next after the argentine

beats joe wilfred tsonga of france and three sets. now russia's freestyle wrestlers and finish top of the medals table at the european championships in serbia it's perfect preparation for the london olympics later this year some of the most prominent members also in russia have traditionally come from the republic of dagestan. now looks at the region's olympic past present and future. it was. who paved the way too early to glory for the rest of the good stand by winning it in one nine hundred seventy two munich games he's now sixty six years old but it's all of the republic's still in big champion continues to bring you joy and he's happy to share the experience with the next generation just leave you mean you cannot. and a hippie olympic champion and you know why i didn't take over my model and i have some right to this age without doing one hundred eighty one prophet peace to him had lived sixty four years i'm sixty six so i be displeased with life i have four

sons and that's my greatest legacy since the. dawn has produced another fourteen olympic champions in various sports but mainly in freestyle wrestling one of them is the one nine hundred eighty moscow games going or. title did not come without controversy with thirty nations claiming he wants without any major opposition. wins of the annual world cup in two police in the united states in one thousand eighty one a year after the moscow olympics the message loop there was that you had boycotted olympic games and no link times team had come to prove that we are the true champions and beat them to do so well the world has changed since the fall of the iron curtain and wrestlers from dagestan have become models for success for nations for beyond russia the enormous and competition local athletes and coaches have been

exporting their trade and wrestling for additions all over the globe these are martial arts schools internationally recognized and coaches want to understand work all over the world from colombia to turkey to help develop national schools which is a true recognition of the largest ones role in wrestling as for after the athletes well they also represent foreign teams like turkey croatia was a donia i was away john taylor and ukraine. the competition for a place on the russian national wrestling team is as high as ever in dagestan republic's leadership is naturally keen on continuing this trend supporting all sports at the grassroots level with or without a the huge sports development program and has a special law designed to expand sport and physical training. we've also implemented a course of action which will help prepare arrest please for the olympic games in london i do hope that the twenty's will summer games will bring its new winners and champions and not only in wrestling. a lot is still left to say about russia's

republic of dagestan and it's fine sporting for additions that are parents or a splinter of really big champions in the future to see how that's done which parts of the just dance olympic legacy remark austrade r.t. russia's republic of dagestan. and you can see part two of romans look at pakistan's limping legacy on friday here on our take now i saw in the k h l playoffs regular season when his truck so have taken a one nil lead in the quarter final series against that but was that's off the valerie plame you know use of men the two time to go and cut women's three one on home ice in game one on wednesday night while metal magnitogorsk also won the opening game of their best of seven series against average garden i'm so sorry most the afternoon with the overtime winner for the visitors. well in the west regular season runners up scar will try to extend their series meet against moscow region side atlanta later on thursday relates the top a run to number of moscow also play games. now the twenty twelve formula one

season is fast approaching the first race of the year you're straining ground for a getting going this weekend two thousand and eight champion mclaren's lewis hamilton has been speaking in the build up stating that this year's contest is going to be a close run thing following two seasons of the past and vettel dominance i think history will be the top a season probably yet because we've got quite a close the drivers got six or champions. you know that series the top contenders and they'll say they're all in good cars as well so they're all in the top team so it's going to be a massively competitive year think the president love it finally it's make or break time for a strain. he is most successful ever olympian. needs to make his country squad for the london twenty twelve games at the australian olympic swimming trials and he fights on gold medalist he came out of retirement last year knows he's going to

have to perform much better than he has done so far following his return to the sports this is a point where. we've all been trying very hard and you know i think i'll be able to swim as fast as i have in this preparation that i've had over the last eighteen months and i'm going to need to. and it's going to be much faster than what i've sworn previously well that's all the sport and i will have more in a little under two hours time for me that.

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