thanks for being with us on how to ask me our let's take a quick recap of your headlines are your in to the syrian conflict british newspaper has printed e-mails apparently written by president assad and his wife the guardian says they were intercepted by position members and revealed scores of personal information. afghanistan's security will be in local hands next year as the british and american leaders confirm a countdown at their meeting in washington and investigation is also pending into

a possible assassination attempt against the u.s. defense secretary during his visit to the war torn country. and illegal immigrants coming to the u.k. and search of work are finding their dreams and being in poverty but because many have no idea documents they know have no way of returning home. next time we hear why president obama's initial offer of dialogue with iran over its nuclear program descended into the confrontation we're seeing 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 a dice obama's diplomacy with iran mr parsley thank you very much for joining our team thank you for having me this is percy 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 willing to sit down for direct talks with its long time adversarial 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 incentives 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 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 in and then there was of course the election scandal in the wrong with the massive human rights abuses that followed that really did a lot to limit his political spaces by the time he managed to get everyone since people in october two thousand and nine. collison according to one senior obama administration official grains had become a gamble on a single roll of the difference he either had to work right away or not and not for bomber needed a quick result because he had only one year in his own mind to prove his critics in washington that the 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 obama administration essentially abandons the prophecy

and enters the sanction truck so you're saying he 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 since there's no track record of them prior to that having supported that 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 advisers are as well particularly when it comes to the question how much more patients are we willing to hire on those circumstances if there are a lot of people who may not hundred percent shared 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 you see that it was

a small window of opportunity where the policy really could have been very effective leading up to the last round of international sanctions against iran but then the obama administration did not capitalize on that what happened well what you had is there aren't on the 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 or is all 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 sort of two thousand and five percent p five plus one but it's a russian american proposal that at its core and in their proposal the idea was to get twelve hundred kilos of any you out of iran in one shipment and the iranians will get their fuel pads back a year later and this variation the fuel will be put in turkey in an escrow

so if the west remade on the deal the iranians can get there early you back this was actually a proposal that the president the united states had endorsed and the meeting with turkey and brazil on april thirteenth in washington d.c. for the zero summit if you're serious on what the turks and brazilians did not know however was that on the friday before this 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 would mean and then by the time when their goshes were concluded and the brazilian foreign minister calls secretary clinton explains that deal and explains the details he's shocked that she rejects it and he tells her but we follow the letter that president obama had sent from april twenty eighth in which the brazilians were asked to get twelve hundred euros out put it in escrow in turkey and then the

iranians working for a few months back but a year later when things with a choice between new sanctions or a diplomatic breakthrough in the nuclear program the one administration 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 are 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 think of you to many experts in the past few weeks about the circumstance surrounding israel and iran and many of them believe that is 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 or for that 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 it is about 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 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 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's different this time around is precisely what you hinted are there is an election in the united states that political backlash for 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 rhetoric there is quite. aggressive and have almost position themselves to the rights of baby i mean and so there is that element that creates a higher risk but i think the u.s. military has done something quite interesting there are ministration 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 indirectly 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 administration officials have come out and said that they believe israel is behind the assassination of iranian scientists in collaboration with an iranian terrorist organization called the mujahideen a car that's

a blow so israel's moral stance so there is quite a thug of war between the obama administration and then and from your government right now and wished obama administration 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 where is a promise to promise a thing 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 to stumble 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 policy that's not negotiations we need a real thorough process of the political activities in which both sides in the

iranians need to do this as well are willing to take a risk for peace that is higher than the risks that they have so far taken for starters court 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 a thirty three year old enmity without expecting that it's going to cost you something as a person thank you very much for your time having. wealthy british.

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knocked out of the champions league a four one defeat to nine times when israel madrid in the spanish capital went to five two loss on aggregate canzano it wanes first half price for the spanish side ahead and it was only they never relinquished two goals from christiania an elbow and a strike from the substitute carrying pens amar just thirty three seconds after coming on ensured you were on top of his goal that sas call was no more than a consolation. it's true that when you've made mistakes and we have given real madrid plays the chance to tackle if we had not made so many mistakes we would have had a few chances but it's your theory that it will display goodness we have given our rivals chances and we cannot hope they will not make it not so it's. been a while chelsea completed a quite remarkable turnaround against entirely inside napoli training three one from the first leg they forced extra time thanks to goals from

a drug john terry under frank penalty before branislav ivanovic scored a dramatic with that in extra time to possibly an interim manager roberto di matteo his 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 i'm not going to get the best out of the players. because three wins no one free games i can see the one goal scored seven with old woman while my mind is focusing. on me well tonight is the europa league which takes center stage with close english representatives looking to come from behind after both suffered somewhat surprising defeats in their first legs when just united went down three two to a spanish side athletic bilbao would old trafford seven days ago so alex ferguson's men a travel to spain without the injured phil jones nani and understand all their antonio

valencia returns after a string injury but the la liga side undefeated at home in six european matches sold beyond us. with a record away from all of europe helps as well in the last few reform. so for the. going to run just use first grade a good performance well manchester city have home advantage in their second language portuguese side sporting lisbon they try out one male roberto mancini's men are unbeaten at home in sixteen european matches but lost in the premier league that they were in kansas won the city it was a result which saw them slip off the top spot for the first time in five months but a couple run won't be a distraction according to the boss. we need to play or eat 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. run a. championship and went on their final. alimentation b.d.'s now in tennis novak djokovic has advanced into the quarterfinals of the indian wells open by beating pablo on the hour of spain although it wasn't all plain sailing for the world number one he dropped his first set of the tournament and top seed. in style six love the spaniard managed to take the second set on a tie break jock which returned to his regular game in the decider winning it in conference fashion six six seven six two the final school. meanwhile second seed rafael in the dollars also safely through to the last eight the world number two for a delusion six three six two victory over alexander gold apolo of ukraine they all

will face david nalbandian next after the arjun time beats it see joe wilfred song france in three sets. and roger federer is five four he continues he won his twelfth century match but had to come from behind to return as baluchi three six six three six four that's up for the swiss is quite martin del potro. now in the n.b.a. the new york knicks have won their first match following the surprise resignation of courage might be on totally and in some style they thrashed paul and one hundred twenty one seventy nine just hours after the sixty year old stood down following three years in charge gentile only 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 countries for the knicks are in danger of missing out on a playoff place this year but carney tied for the eighth and final playoff spot in the eastern conference alongside the milwaukee parks tourney's decision to stand

down let the system mike woodson an interim charge for the match with a pull in trailblazer is a more response a rose from the knicks. well they flashed the visitors one hundred twenty one seventeen twenty six game losing streak when kyle many hours after the coach quit but there were no signs of a threat in the play as they raced into a fifty five twenty nine hof timing j.r. smith who is top score up in the game hard twenty five points including this three points when it still wasn't enough for the knicks to move into the playoff spots woodson has been given drugs until the end of the season. now. as his license revoked by the british boxing board of control and follows his behavior before and after last month's well title fight with ali clenched her in germany at the pre-fight cheese or slapped his opponents in the face then made a presentation to following the route the defeated challenge abroad with british

rival david haye cheese or it was briefly detained by german police describe issuing a statement to wholeheartedly apologize for the brawl in twenty eight year old has been handed an indefinite plan by the world boxing council on wednesday the british boxing board of control with three inches or is licensed of rights he now has fourteen days to appeal the decision and it provides a front row and said that would come under consideration. now russia's free. wrestlers have finished top of the medal 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 dagestan around cos who have now looks at the region's olympic past present and future. it was a lot of pave the way to olympic glory for the rest of that to 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 live picture campion continues to bring him joy as he is happy

to share the experience with the next generation just living in a fine ahead really big change in you know why i didn't take over my model and have survived to this age without. profit and lived sixty three years i'm sixty six so i be displeased with the life i have four sons and that's my greatest legacy since the death of dagestan has produced another fourteen olympic champions in various sports but mainly in a style wrestling one of them is the nine hundred eighty moscow games when are. title did not come without controversy with certain nations claiming he wants on ours without any major opposition. we were in civilian un world took place in the united states in one thousand eighty one a year after the most olympics the message we want to call it was that you had boycotted olympic games and i know the entire civilian picked team to come to

a move. that would tend to settle well the world has changed since the fall 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 wrestling for dish and all over the globe it is like a martial arts school as internationally recognized and coaches from trying to stand work all over the world from colombia to turkey they have to develop national schools which is a true recognition of darkest times wilderness and i will ask for after the athletes they also represent foreign teams like turkey croatia macedonia azerbaijan they roost on you. i'm all good the competition for a place on the russian national wrestling scene is as high as ever in dagestan 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 was a special loan designed to expand sporting physical training in dagestan we've also implemented a course of action which will who are directly swooping games along i do hope with the twenty's will summer games will bring us new winners and champions and not only in russia you get a little to still like to say about russia's republic of dagestan and it's behind sporting traditions that are bound to race plenty of it be champions in the future to see how that's done which more to just dons olympic legacy remark offered russia's republic of dagestan. and you can see part two of romans look at an impact legacy on a friday they are not safe now i saw in the cage playoffs regular season winners drugs i think in a one year later in the quarter final series against at paws the valerie bell you saw this man beating two time guarin cup winners three one on home i sing again one

on wednesday nights. and i need to go to school so i won the game of the best of seven series against adam garden so i must yakin with the overtime win a for the visit has. been the west regular season the runners up skill will try to extend their series needing a small star region sidelines later on thursday like st joe pedro and in the moscow also play a game to a nation in the cut off well that's all the school for now you know we had a little under two hours time join in then if you can.