the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of kandahar. for each and throughout the day. we're just running aren't you half past the hour on parents aren't you with a look at your headlines. both for and against the syrian government marked the first anniversary of the unrest in the country it comes as britain's guardian newspaper releases what it claims are thousands of leaks emails from president assad's private account. pumping up the pressure the u.s. wants india to stop buying iranian oil trying to persuade the country to go elsewhere for its. meanwhile president obama has warned out the window for talks

over iran's nuclear program is trying to. close that's all about suspense peace talks with the u.s. president karzai says he wants nato out of the edges after an american soldier gunned down sixteen civilians in quote what washington and london maintain don't hand over security responsibility to afghan forces next year before coalition forces pull out in two thousand and fourteen. next up treat up our sea of the co-founder of the national iranian american council tiles are too wide president obama's approach towards the islamic republic has changed from once offering peaceful dialogue to the confrontation we're seeing today. r.t. is sitting down with trita parsi president of the national iranian american council and author of a 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 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 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 israel's 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 gone with the massive human rights abuses that followed with that really did a lot to limit his political spaces by the time he knowledge to get everyone said it's legal in october two thousand and nine. the policy called into one senior obama administration official had become a gamble on a single rule of the gun. he either had to work right away or not to go for a bomb or needed a quick result because he had only one year in his own mind to prove his critics in washington the plan was seeking to 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 victory he didn't get it and as a result four weeks later the obama administration essentially abandoned diplomacy and entered 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 but i don't 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 but 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 world particularly when it comes to the question how much more patients are we willing to her on the 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 to any successful negotiation all 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 diplomacy 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 are ads 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 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 r p five plus one p five plus one but it's a russian american proposal after that scored and in their proposal the idea was to get twelve hundred kilos of really you out of iraq in one shipment and the iranians

will get their fuel cards 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 get to every 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 his ear or summit the need for a zero sum what the turks and brazilians did not know however was that on the friday before this sunday that little arrived in town to start negotiations. russia and china had agreed to a sanctions draft in the security council the sanctions deal essentially would mean and then biding time then i'm going to go she says were concluded and the brazilian foreign minister calls secretary clinton explains the deal and explains the details he's shocked but she rejects it and he tells her but we followed the letter that

president obama had 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 there 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 the garment illustration by may two thousand and ten chose 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 us and iran in the world has increased we're on the brink of war a 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 using i think of you there are many experts in the past few weeks about the circumstance surrounding israel and iran and many of them believe that that israel and they are 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 the 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 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 arts in which the israelis have made a lot of threats about potentially attacking iran and the primary purpose of that has been to. 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've hinted out there is an election in the united states the 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 every trick that is quite. aggressive and have almost position themselves to the rights of bennett so there is that element that creates a higher risk but i think the u.s. military has done something quite interesting the obama 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 you have one 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 which will be in a car that's a blow to israel's moral stand so there is quite a thug of war between the obama administration and the netanyahu government right now in which the government mr ation feels that israel is trying to push them into war and they're pushing back in a matter that actual will have long term consequences for u.s. israeli relations whereas obama's diplomacy 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 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 off meetings in which the two sides exchange ultimatums that's not the promising that's

not negotiations we need a real thorough process of diplomatic 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 risk 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 and we set up 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 and better 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. to

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gunned down sixteen civilians in cold blood washington and london maintain bell handed over security responsibilities to afghan forces next year before coalition troops pull out in twenty eight fourteen. years you know and with all the latest action from the world of sport and nervy times ahead for both sides of the manchester football divide yes certainly is tonight there's nigerian test and the europa league for both united. simply how to win to keep going in europe thoughts all ahead plus the rest of the sport. if your company this is what they plan to head over the next ten minutes or so including. among chester on trial the pressure's on for both united and city in the europa league tonight with the favorites both needing to win to stay alive on the

continent. causing a rocket spine your partner pushes the world number one over djokovic all the way but it's still the serb who's into the last eight of indian wells. on comfier plus the russian republic of dagestan seems to breed a wrestling champions we take a look behind the scenes of the week sporting history. now with this week's champions league action dusted attention turns to the europa league later on thursday both manchester clubs take to the field on both are in need of wins and united went on three two to sponsor side. old trafford a week ago the premier league leaders just need to find an at least twice in spain to have any hope of progressing they'll be without food jones nani on under seven although antonino valencia does return after a string knock on they're going to need him outlet like are a team and form on the field at home in six european countries so challenge posed

or beyond us a figure of. authority for the way from home to group helps as well as for your group from whom. software that's going to an advantage to use for the good performance and chester city meanwhile have home advantage in their second leg or portuguese are fit sporting lisbon or worked among chinese men trailed one nil but aren't beaten at home in sixteen european matches losing out that weekend in the premier league to swansea city go possibly not the best preparation it was a result which saw them move off the top spot for the first time in five months. we need to play all of it when we can. we don't we don't want to win this game because it will be a distraction for a premier league. one . champion she went on they finally. really.

will be these. elsewhere in the pick of big games p.s.v. must try to overcome a four two deficit against valencia pick she is also hoping home advantage can conduct has a cold vitriol three one sheltie easy out nor hung over an olympian cause favorites to progress in the rest of the ties on your screen. in tennis novak djokovic has advanced into the quarterfinals at indian wells after beating puddle angelo of spain but it wasn't all plain sailing for the world number one who dropped his first set of the tournaments the top seeded serb taking the opener in style six love but managed the second set on a tie break though turning on his regular game in the decider winning it's a confident fashion six six seven six two fronts. second see the rafael nadal is also safely through to the last eight the world number two claiming

it relatively straightforward six three six two victory over alexander to pull off of ukraine it's all up against even old bundy and next up we are sometimes off sixty joel fred song of france and fritz. and roger federer is fine form is continuing the swiss claiming his twelfth the sixth of march have to come from behind victory mass baluchi three six six three six four next up for the world number three one mark. and gave us a ball where new york have won their first match following the surprise resignation of coach mike d'antoni and some style to the next russian portland just hours after the six. the dawn following three years in charge until he had signed a twenty four million dollar four year contract into the. eights which made him one of the n.b.a.'s highest paid coaches but the next are in danger of missing the playoffs this year they're currently tied for the final playoff berth in the

eastern conference alongside the no walkie bucks decision to stand on left assistant mike woodson in charge for the notch but the portland trailblazers on what a response from the knicks. new york whipping the visitors hundred twenty one seventy nine to end a six game losing streak when coming only hours after the coach quits but the reduced size of the effect on the players as they raced to a fifty five twenty nine half time lead j.r. smith top scoring with twenty five points the win still not enough though for the knicks to move into the off contention as yet woodson meanwhile has been given the top job until the end of this. the world's most popular motor sport formula one starts its twenty twelve season this weekend's in melbourne the final touch ups busy being carried are dying under with most just thinking how are they able to stop this non-coding up to time reigning world champion red bull's

sebastian vettel as he should have seen the screen he's talk of the put the list as usual should the germans secure the car again he would become the third man to play in f one after one man well you know on michael schumacher australian mark webber finished third last year on the red bull driver should find himself as one of metals biggest challengers the likes of jenson button lewis hamilton and fernando alonso will also be in the reckoning while russian vitaly petrov will hit the track for the new katherine squad alongside heikki clover lane in all of finland unless we forget seven time world champion schumacher he's still on the circuit. we have no headaches about the car we just feel very confident about the ability and in a way the performance is very consistent that is good for us too. we already know. started developing the car rather than fixing problems so all in all we are in a much better circumstance compared to last year. but i'm here to to win

the championship so. it is good. and. it is it would. be nice being. here as i said the reason why we're here is to race and to win. this season this is long so there's a little resistor cup that's going to be hard to stop and now derek just sure 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 the telly to score in germany at the pre-fight when she saw us lock his opponent in the face then another critical prince following the bite that defeated challenger brawls would produce rival david haye just sora who is briefly detained by german police despite issuing a statement to wholeheartedly apologize for the probe the twenty eight year old was hundreds of indefinite by the world clocks in concert then on wed in state a british boxing board of control with brooches source license that the man nicknamed

del boy has fourteen days to appeal the decision and finally russia's freestyle rest there is how finish top of the medals table at the european championships in serbia it's perfect preparation for the upcoming london olympics but the majority of the team as is not a standard healing from dagestan among kos trip takes a look now at the famed regions a limpid past present and future. it was. paved 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 republic's first olympic champion continues to bring him joy as he's happy to share the experience with the next generation just leaving i mean you cannot find a happy olympic champ and you know why i did what i call from my model and have so wanted to this age without doing harm to anyone. who still had lived sixty three years i'm sixty six be displeased with 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 freestyle 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 annual world cup to place in the united states in one thousand eighty one a year after the olympics the message we to give it was that you had boycotted olympic games and i know the entire civilian team had come to prove that we are from children's gentle selves 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 due to enormous internal competition local athletes and

coaches have been exporting their trade and thus wrestling for dish and all over the globe it is like a martial arts school is internationally recognized and coaches from time to stand work all over the world from colombia to turkey to help develop national schools which is a true recognition of the market stands roldan wrestling us for up to the athletes well they also represent foreign teams like turkey croatia donia john bailey russo and. the competition for a place on the russian national wrestling. high as ever and the republic's leadership is naturally keen on continuing this trend supporting all sports at the grassroots level with. a huge sports program special loan designed to expand sporting physical training and. the course of action. games in london i do hope that the twenty games you winners in champion and not.

just say about russia's republican and it's fine sporting for edition that our parents are big champions in the future to see how that's done what sports. legacy. on friday right here on. all your sports weather.

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