three. three. three three. three stooges three. three long years morning video for your media projects free media to archie dot com. headlines for you die today afghanistan's security will be in the local hands next year an american leaders out there at the meeting in washington just occasionally also meet with possible assassination attempts against the u.s. defense secretary can visit the four hundred. syrian troops advance to several flashpoint cities here after the conflict erupted as the opposition calls

on foreign forces to move in all trust of outsiders responded positively u.n. and arab league's proposals which include an immediate cease fire by both sides. and illegal immigrants coming to the u.k. in search of work funding the troops and the haven't seen. any of them like the top and that's the way of returning home. the next we hear why a president obama's initial offer of dialogue with iran over its nuclear program to send it into the confrontation scene 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 percy thank you very much for joining our team today thank you for having me this

is perceived when u.s. president barack obama stepped into the white house in early two thousand and nine he was offering a new approach with iran he extended his proverbial hand and said america was appealing to sit down for direct talks with its long time adversary how is it that three years later the u. rats seems closer to war with iran that 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 be israel's it's a story of a president that enough in my assessment was genuine at all diplomacy and wanted to pursue it but also knew that you know the very limits of political space and political time to do so and our 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 the massive human rights abuses that followed but really did a lot to limit his political space by the time he managed to get everyone to the table you know put over two thousand and nine. policy according to one senior obama administration official the interview had become a gamble on a single rule of inference it either had to work right away or not to run the barmah and he did a quick result because he had only one year in his own mind to prove his critics in washington that that promise he could yield something by the time he got to the table was already october ten months of his presidency has passed and he needed a quick fix or he didn't get it and as

a result four weeks later it was an iteration essentially of bad ones diplomacy and there's the sanction track so you're saying he caved to external pressures that someone very important factor of course there's 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 the people missing since there's no track record of them prior to that having supported products and he hired some some of those individuals and put 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 under those circumstances if there are a lot of people who may not hundred percent shared a vision the first thing that suffers the first thing that is second for us is patience and patience is a critical component of any successful negotiation of 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 that it was a small window of opportunity where the quality really could have been very effective weaning up to the last round of international sanctions against iran but then the obama administration did not capitalize on what happened but what you had is that on sixteenth of may two thousand and ten president lula of brazil goes to iran for a state visit schedule months in advance. and the day after every gun of turkey comes there 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 and five of one p. 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 really you out of iran in one shipment and the iranians will get their fuel perhaps back a year later in this variation the fuel will be put in turkey in an escrow

so if the west remade on the deal the iranians can get fairly you back and it 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 in your zero with the turks and brazilians did not know however was that on the friday before that sunday that little 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 when we go she says we're concluded and the brazilian foreign minister because secretary clinton explains that deal and explains the details he's shocked that she rejects it and he tells her but we followed the letter to president obama sent from april twentieth in which the brazilians were asked to get

twelve hundred hugo's up 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 they want a distraction 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 even on the nuclear program has progressed tensions between the u.s. and iran in the world has increased we're on the brink of war and you can 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 there are many many experts in the past few weeks about the circumstance surrounding israel and iran and many of them believe that you know that israel may 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 out 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 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 that and the reason for that is we have seen this pattern in the past in which the israelis have made a lot of threats about potentially attacking iran and the primary purpose of that has been so. pushed the united 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 consider 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 a political backlash for that would be at its minimum in an election year

particularly when you have republican candidates using a reverie that is quite. aggressive and have almost positioned themselves to the rights of being i mean it and so there is that element that creates a higher risk but i think the u.s. military has done something quite interesting there were ministration is quite. interesting in the past month and a half there's been a whole set of articles 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 you have one with mr asian officials have come out and said that they believe israel is behind the assassination of iranian scientists in collaboration

with iranian terrorist organization called them which read in 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 right now in which the woman is racial 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 iran 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 and resolving this issue if the diplomacy only ends up becoming one of meetings in which the two sides exchange ultimatums that's not the promising that's not negotiations we need a real thorough process of the poor madoc activities in which both sides and the

iranians need to do this as well are willing to take a risk for peace that is higher than the risk that they have so far taken for the status quo or or even for escalation so far we have not seen it's going to take a long time in the south a lot of political determination behind it and it's have to be the administration's 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 at thirty three year old enmity without expecting that it's going to cost you something as a person thank you. very much for.

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afghanistan security will be in local hands next year as the british and american leaders confirm the countdown to their meeting in washington an investigation is also pending into a possible assassination attempt against the u.s. defense secretary during his visit to the country. syrian troops advance to several flashpoint cities a year off the conflict erupted as opposition calls on foreign forces to move in meanwhile present our side has responded positively to read an arab league's peace proposals which include an immediate cease fire by both sides. and illegal

immigrants coming to the u.k. in search of work planning their dreams ending in homeless poverty because we have no idea documents for any of returning home. school snoozer of course. hello welcome to the world of sport it's good to have your company is what's coming up pain in displaying that sas car moscow's champions league journey is over for another year at least following i for one defeat to real madrid in the spanish capital. all set world number one novak djokovic has taken all the way to three sets by spaniard prado on the heart on his way to the last eight in indian wells. i limp it legacy our team traveled to the russian republic and look at the regions

and limpid success past present and future. so fast says colonoscopy not out of the way for champions league or for wonder things to nine times when israel madrid in the spanish capital went to five two loss on aggregate comes although it wanes first half strike put the spanish side ahead and it was a lead they never relinquished to goal to christiania an elbow and a strike from substitute carrying pens of mouth just thirty three seconds after coming on ensured you were on top of his goal for it says carr was no more than a consolation. for you through that when you made mistakes and with even real madrid plays the chance to attack if we had not made so many mistakes we would have had a few chances but it's very difficult to sleep with given our rivals chances and we cannot hope that there will not make the most of it. chelsea completed a quite remarkable turnaround against italian side napoli training three one from

the lucky person leg they forced extra time funds to goals from didier drogba john terry and frank lampard penalty before brown is not invalidate scored a dramatic winner in extra time to possibly enhanced into ramallah jail roberto di matteo's chances of getting the job full time. you know i don't i don't really think about myself i'm just i'm just focused on trying to win games for chelsea football club and trying to get the best out of the players. i've got three wins no one free games conceding one goal support seven that's old woman what 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 past legs manchester united went down to three turning to spanish side athletic bilbao i don't traffic at seven days a guy to explore ideas and manage travel to explain without the injured phil jones

nani and anderson who are antonio valencia returns after a hamstring injury for the la league a side undefeated at home in six european match it's. six hours beyond us i think that. with a record away from all of europe helps as well although i feel from home so for that going to let registers first play 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 this one of the city it was the result which saw them slip off of top spot for the first time in five months but a cut run won't be a distraction according to the boss that. we need to play or eat when we can. we don't pull we don't want to win this game because it could be a distraction for

a premier league. club squad. one. championship and went on the final. really. should be d.s. . now in tennis novak djokovic has advanced into the quarterfinals of the indian wells open by beating pavlova and the heart of spain where there was no 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 joke of its return to his regular game in the decider winning an incomplete question six six seven six two the final score another spaniard nicolas maduro is up next for the world number one. meanwhile second seed rafael nadal is also safely through to the last eight world military planes in six three six

three rectory out over alexander dogger poll over ukraine and there are replaced david nalbandian next after the arjun time succeed wilfred song of france and three sets. now in n.b.a. the new york knicks have won their first match following the rays the surprise resignation of coach tony and in some style they thrashed poland one hundred twenty one seventy nine just hours after the sixty year old stood down the following three years in charge there and certainly had signed a twenty four million dollars four year contract in two thousand and eight that made him one of the n.b.a.'s highest paid coaches the knicks are in danger of missing the playoffs this year that tied for eighth and the final playoff spot in the eastern conference with the your walking box the antone's decision to stand down left the system mike woodson an interim charge for the match with the portland trail blazers and what a response it was from the knicks. they rushed to visit this one hundred twenty

one seventy ninth and the six game losing streak when it came only hours after the coach quit but there were no signs of balustrades real players as they raced into a fifty five twenty nine halftime late j.r. smith with top score with a game like twenty five points including this three points when it still wasn't enough for the knicks to move into the playoff spots i would say given the job for the end of the season. now thoughts there are meanwhile he's had his license revoked by the british boxing board of control it's always his behavior before and after last month's world title fight with ali creature in germany at the pre-fight ryan chisora slaps his opponents in the face then at a press conference following the ballasts defeat at challenger broad with british rival david haye just or it was briefly detained by german place despite issuing a statement i wholeheartedly apologize for the group the twenty eight year old has been handed an indefinite plan by the world boxing council rome one stating push

boxing board of control with riches or as license to fight he has fourteen days to appeal the decision and its products are front war and the top would come under consideration. now russia's freestyle wrestlers to 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 of team russia have traditionally come from the republic of pakistan from of course you have now looks at the regions i limp it past present and future. it was. who paid the way to olympic glory for the rest of the stand by winning the nine hundred seventy two munich games he's now sixty six years old but the title of the republic's first olympic champion continues to bring him joy as he is happy to share the experience with the next generation just leaving when you cannot find a happy olympic champion and you know why i did what i could for my model and have survived to this age without doing harm to anyone profit to him had lived sixty

three years i'm sixty six so i be displeased with the life i have corson's and that's my greatest legacy since the death of dagestan has produced another fourteen olympic champions in various sports but mainly in for example wrestling one of them is the nine hundred eighty moscow games winter. title did not come without controversy with certain nations claiming he wants honors without any major opposition. we went to the anyone world to place in the united states in one thousand nine hundred eighty year after the most olympics the message we are is that you have boycotted olympic games and i know the entire soviet olympic team had come to prove that we are the true champions beat them ten to seven well the world has changed says that all of the irony curtain and wrestlers from dagestan have become models for success for nations far beyond russia enormous internal

competition local athletes and coaches have been exporting their trade and thus wrestling for additions all over the globe is money and power martial arts school is internationally recognized in cultures from time to stand work all over the world from colombia to turkey they have developed national schools which is a true recognition of darkest times rolled in wrestling will last for aftermath leads to represent foreign teams like turkey croatia macedonia as a way to turn me loose on your. norgate the competition for a place on the russian national wrestling scene is as high as ever and i just on the republic's leadership is naturally keen on continuing this trend supporting all sports at the grassroots level with the program adopted a huge sports development program which was the special loan designed to expand sport and physical training in dagestan we've also as well as the course of action which will help the iraqis with the limit games in london i do hope that that's what he calls summer games will bring in some new winners and champions and not all

the rest of us a little to still like to say about russia's republic of dagestan and its own sporting preditions that are bound to raise plenty of belief that champions in the future to see how that's done what sports you biggest on's olympic legacy remark calls for an r.t. with russia's republic of dagestan. and you can see part so you all for a man's look at pakistan an impact legacy on a friday on tape now and i saw in the playoffs regular season when his tractor had taken a one in the quarter final series against at balls off the gallery value sells man two times regarding cup winners three one one hundred nice in game one on wednesday night's wild metal music or school so i won the opening game of that best of seven series against alan garden so i came with the overtime winner for the visit as. well in the west regular season runners up scar will try to extend their series

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