free. range month free. three stooges free. young old free volunteer video for your media project and free media gone to r t dot com. this is r t the headlines for you now afghanistan's security will be in the local hands next year as the british and american leaders confirm the countdown they're meeting in washington and just a geisha is also pending into a possible assassination attempt against the u.s. defense secretary during his visit to the war zone country. syrian troops advance to several flashpoint cities a year off the conflict erupted so position calls on foreign forces to move the

president has responded positively to the u.n. and arab league's peace proposals which include you get cease fire are both sides. legal immigrants coming to the u.k. in search of work on a dream center in the order to. many have new id documents and a new way of returning home. next week and why president obama's initial offer of dialogue with iran over its nuclear program and send it into the confrontation was seen today. r t is sitting down with trita parsi president of the national iranian american council and author of the new book a single role of the dice obama's diplomacy with iran mr percy thank you very much for joining r.t. today thank you for having me it's a courtesy when u.s. president barack obama stepped into the white house and early two thousand and nine

he saw frank a new york pro church 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.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 european studies remains it's a story of a president that enough in my assessment was genuine about diplomacy and wanted to pursue it but also knew that he had very limited 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 it and then there was of course the election scandal in iran with the massive human rights abuses that followed that really did a lot to limit his political space but i did time he managed to get everyone to the table in october two thousand and nine. the policy according to one senior obama administration official grains had become a gamble on a single roll of the guns he either had to work right away or not a drop a bomb or needed a quick result because he had only one year in his own mind to prove his critics in washington the plough mysie 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 obama administration essentially abandons diplomacy and answers the sanction truck so you're saying he's caved to external pressures that's

one very important factor of course there's other people inside the obama white house who were probably very loyal to the president but i think it is fair to wonder how committed they were to his vision of diplomacy and since there's no track record of them prior to that having supported that and he hired some some of those individuals and put in a very high places and i think when push comes to shove it it becomes important what the viewpoints of these advisers are as well particularly when it comes to the question how much more patients are we willing to harbor on the 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 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 transferred into becoming friends have taken a minimum of four years and you say that it was a small window of opportunity where the colosseum really could have been very

attractive leading up to i don't last round of international sanctions against iran but then the obama administration could not capitalize on that what happened well what you had is they're out on sixteenth of may two thousand and ten president lula of brazil goes to iran for a state visit scheduled months in advance. and the day after erica out of 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 store which you've gotten on a five of forty five plus one but it's a russian american proposal that they have a score and in their proposal the idea was to get twelve hundred kilos of really you out of iran in one shipment and the iranians would get their fuel heads back a year later and this variation in fuel would be put in turkey in an escrow

so if the west remade on the deal the iranians could get there early you back this was actually a proposal that the president the united states had endorsed and a meeting with turkey and brazil on april thirteenth in washington d.c. for his zero summit and if you're serious well 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 and sanctions deal essentially were made and then by the time limit many goshes were concluded and the brazilian foreign minister because secretary clinton explains the deal and explains the details he's shocked that she rejects since and he tells reporters we follow the letter that president obama had sent from april twentieth in which the brazilians were asked to get twelve hundred euros out put it in a school in turkey and then the iranians would get a few notes back about

a year later put when faced with a choice between new sanctions or if it will not a breakthrough in the nuclear program the one ministration by may two thousand and ten shows the sanctions because they had run out of political space and that's where we are right now the iranian nuclear program has progressed tensions between the u.s. 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 a far more pressure than they have ever been before but they're still not yielding i've interviewed many experts in the past few weeks about the circumstance surrounding israel and iran and many of them believe that if 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 war with iran do you think that will happen i think the risk of an israeli military strike is higher than any hospital 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 it 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 attack iraq 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 hinted at there is an election in the united states a political backlash for the israelis if they were to do something that the u.s. military does not want israel to do the political backlash for that would be on its minimum in an election year particularly when you have republican candidates using

every trick that is quite. aggressive and have almost position themselves to the rights of every in atlanta so there is that element that creates a higher risk but i think the u.s. military has done something quite interesting there bomb administration is quite 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 and moreover the u.s. military or you know why administration officials are come out and said that they believe israel is behind the assassination of iranian scientists in collaboration with an iranian terrorist organization called them were driving 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 and which the bar ministration feels that israel is trying to push them into war and they're pushing back in a matter of actual will have long term consequences for u.s. israeli relations whereas obama's the 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 have 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 pramanik 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 that it's going to take a long time it needs to have 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 a thirty three year old enmity without expecting that it's going to cost you something as a person thank you very much for implying. nearly a billion people in the world are going to come three feet. in the united states even our trash cans are full of the food you just have to go get it all of these

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afghanistan's security will be in local hands next year as it relation american leaders confirm the counter me to nationals and an investigation is also pending into a possible assassination attempt against u.s. defense secretary during his visit to the country. syrian troops are part of the several flashpoint cities year after the conflict erupted as opposition calls on foreign forces to bring meanwhile president assad has responded positively u.n. and arab league's peace proposals. immediate cease fire signs.

and illegal immigrants coming to the u.k. in search of work finding their dreams ending in the midst of poverty because many have no idea documents the. next or latest sports news of course. thank you kerry welcome to the world of sports as kids are you company here's what we've got coming up pain in spray says car moscow's champions league journey is over for another year at least for the full one defeat to real madrid in the spanish capital. all sects world number one no doubt djokovic is pushed all the way by spying you pablo are on his way to the last state of the union world's open . to start a limb picco legacy arsene travels to the russian republic to look at the region's

a limited success past present and future. but for us to ask our moscow who are not out of the u.a.e. for champions league are full on defeats so nine times when israel madrid in the spanish capital went to five two loss on aggregate gonzalo if wayne's crossrail strike put the spanish side ahead and it was a lead they never relinquished two goals from cristiana an elbow under strike from substitute carrying bags of mouth just thirty three seconds after coming on ensured you were on toss it was called for test car was no more than a consolation. it's true that when you've made mistakes and we've given real madrid plays a chance to attack if we had not made so many mistakes we would have had a few chances but it's very difficult this really we have 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 italian side napoli training three one from the first leg they forced extra time trying to goals from getting

a drug for john terry and a frank lampard penalty before branislav ivanovic scored a dramatic winner in extra time possibly in hearts interim manager roberto di matteo's chances of getting the job full time. you know i don't i don't really think about myself. just i'm just focused on trying to win games for chelsea football club going to get the best out of the players. because three wins no in free games conceding one goal scored sixty seven with old woman the woman in this focusing. in well tonight it's the europa league which takes center stage with both english representatives looking to come from behind after both suffered some more surprising defeats in their first legs than chest united one 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 were once only over land after hum string injury but the league side

undefeated at home in six european matches. such our interest over beyond us figures. but the regular way from all europe helps as well as feel free from home. software that is going to run a drug is true is first grade a good performance well manchester city have home advantage in their second leg with portuguese side sporting lisbon they trail one knelt down cheney's manner unbeaten at home in sixteen european matches but lost in the premier league at the weekend this one's a city it was a result which saw them slip off the top spot for the first time in five months and they can't run won't be a distraction according to the polls. we need to play all of it when we can. we don't do we don't want to win this game because it could be a distraction for a premier league. club squad.

one. championship when they finally. really. should be d. is now in tennis novak djokovic has advanced into the quarterfinals of the indian wells open by beating pablo on the hour 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 but the spaniard managed to take the second set on a tie break djokovic she returned to his regular game in the decider winning it in confident fashion six six seven six two the final score another spaniard nicolas almagro is up next for the world not a lot. meanwhile second seed rafael nadal is also safely through to the last eight world number two quick and easy six three six two victory over alexander gopal of the ukraine will face david nalbandian next part of the art in time joey wilford

song france in three sets. now in n.b.a. the new mix of won their first match following the surprise resignation of coach mike lee and tony and in some style they thrashed paul in one hundred twenty one seventy nine just hours after the sixty year old stood down from three years in charge the attorney had signed a twenty four million dollars per year contract back 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 they're currently tied for the eighth and final playoff berth in the eastern conference along the alongside the milwaukee bucks don't tell huge decision to stand down left assistant mike woodson in interim charge for the match with the paul in trail places and what response it was from the knicks. they thrashed the visitors one hundred twenty one seventy nine and a six game losing streak the wind came only hours after the coach quit but there were no signs about affecting the players as they raced into

a fifty five twenty nine timely jr smith with top score with a game high twenty five points including this three pointer to win still not enough for the knicks to move into the playoff spots woodson has been given the job until the end of the season. now props at their riches who are meanwhile has had his license revoked by the british boxing board of control it follows his behavior before and after last month's world title fight with brutally klitschko in germany at the pre-fight weigh in choose or slap his opponents in the face then i'll press conference following about the defeat of challenger broad with british rival david haye and chisora was briefly detained by german police despite issuing a statement i wholeheartedly apologize for the rule twenty eight year old has been handed an indefinite plan by the world boxing council on wednesday the british boxing board of control with riches or is license to fight he has fourteen days to appeal the decision and the promoter frank warren said that that would come under

consideration. now russia's freestyle wrestlers a finished top of the medals table at the european championships in serbia it's the 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 across europe now looks at the region as a limp it past present and future. it was a back up who paved the way to olympic glory for the rest of the good stand by winning in one thousand seventy two munich games he's now sixty six years old but the title of republics olympic champion continues to bring in joy as he's happy to share the experience with the next generation of a million cannot find a happy olympic champion and you know why i did what i could for my model and have so why to this age without doing harm to anyone. else to him had lived sixty three years i'm sixty six so i be displeased with life i have four sons and that's my

greatest legacy since. decades dan has produced another fourteen olympic champions in various sports but mainly in freestyle wrestling one of them is the nine hundred eighty moscow games winner. and this title did not come without controversy with thirty nations claiming he wants honors without any major opposition but we went to the ne a world cup the two place in the united states in one thousand nine hundred one a year after the most olympics the message we want to get there was that you have boycotted olympic games and know the entire sort of olympic team had come to you to prove that we are the true champions and beat them to seven. well the world has changed says the ball of the iron curtain and wrestlers from the biggest star have become models for success for nations far beyond russia the enormous and third all competition a local athletes and coaches have been exporting their trade and wrestling for

editions all over the globe these are martial arts schools internationally recognized and coaches who would like to stand work all over the world from colombia to turkey to help develop national schools which is a true recognition of dragons fans role in wrestling for up to roughly that's who they also represent foreign teams like turkey croatia was a donia as well turn me loose 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. we've got a huge sports development program and passed a special law designed to expand sport and physical training a day is there we've also implemented a course of action which will help prepare referees for the olympic games and want i do hope that the twenty whole summer games or bring us new winners and champions and not only wrestling. a lot is still left to say about russia's republic of

dagestan and its fine sporting for editions that are bound to raise plenty of really big champions in the future to see how that's done which part of that just dons olympic legacy. see russia's republic of dagestan. and you can see part two of romance look at pakistan celebrate legacy on friday here on our take i talking our way in the k h l playoffs regular season winners trucks i have taken a one nil lead in their course a final series against. us after valery fellow yourselves man beating to try and get darren cup winners three one on home ice in game one on wednesday night market is of course also one of the i think game of their best of seven series of improv unguarded so i go in with the overtime or not for the visits. in the western conference regular season runners up scar will try to extend their series lead against moscow region side at lunch later on thursday to see torpedo in finale

moscow also play game two in news from the. well that's all the sport for now of more funeral little under two hours time joining.

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