welcome back here with our team here is a reminder of the top stories peace deal in danger syrian rebels failed to provide written guarantees they will hold violence something the government says is the main condition for army withdrawal the pullout is scheduled for tuesday according to the truce plan brokered by special envoy kofi annan. boycotts protests and marches to shake america's prada does gun lobby as anger over the controversial shooting off trayvon martin gathers peas spilling over into

a debate over the country's remarkably lags firearms last. south korea media hypes up rumors of a new nuclear test plan by the north just as pyongyang that foreign journalists see for themselves the final preparations for its much discussed rocket launch. up next iran through the eyes of israeli security director of the military balance project and member of the institute for national security studies explores telhami explains to rein in iran's nuclear ambitions. with me i have you have touched up here the director of the military balance project at the institute for national security studies here in tel aviv thank you very much for joining us here in r.t. over when you sat down together a couple of weeks ago you said it was not in is all interest to launch a military strike on iran why do you think is also not striking around i don't

think that the israeli air force is large enough or strong enough to actually destroy the iranian nuclear weapon project it might cause damage some damage but it would not. destroy it so it would not achieve anything do you think that the u.s. would consider carburated with israel in such a strike but quietly it's first of all those no quietly in this issue because things would tend to come out sooner or later so to begin with. on the one hand i think president obama has not truly blow out an american strike yet even though his military is very reluctant to get into another war in the middle east i don't think you would do it during an election year so contact the

reason for it or to launch a strike now before there's a new american leadership in place. there is a stink there is a fear in the united states that is what we are going to do that an israeli attack mode draw the united states into that war probably prematurely it would force the united states to get into a war because an iranian counterattack would almost undoubtedly be targeted against the united states is against israel so you know that would be drawn this from course i think such an action without an american consent. course agree permits to israeli relations strategic relations with the united states for an extended period of time do you think that the past sanctions recently declared against iran are enough to satisfy the israeli government and not able to

strike the might satisfy for time being i think the general. attitude in the insert is that the sanctions are not enough and they're not going to convince iran even if they would be much healthier would not convince iran not to continue nuclear weapon project how do you measure iran's capability to launch a counterattack iran has a cup ability of launching a missile attack on israel direct or attack on israel. with a few hundred thousand. what would be the effectiveness of such an award is there accuracy of these missiles i don't know all. gone to the polls we would be worse off than we could be in one hundred ninety one when we were under iraqi missile damage was caused no one actually got killed but there's no

guarantee that that is not going to be to happen we have no the arrow which we didn't have then which would be able to intercept at least some part of these attacks and the greatest damage would be as in the case of the katyusha rocket attack the economic damage to israel because under such attack everything comes to a standstill and what about arab support for an israeli strike on iran you mentioned american involvement but surely it's also needs our persistence in the form of landing lights and even feeling assistance many arab countries are very cautious of iran and. the for example saudi arabia has been urging the united states to attack iran for many years now they are terrified they really are terrified on the other hand assistance to israel is still

out of their agenda in the open israel would have to fly over arab countries but it has done so before and it can be done without their consent or with. cover consent we could get persistence or landing rights from countries like i don't believe saudi arabia would do it but the united arab emirates might do that. just remember that the distance from the united arab emirates to northern urine is as far as from israel maybe even longer so. this kind of a landing rights would be helpful only in case of attacking targets three thousand iran another. covertly. might be but again it's problematic and may be given by a budget which on the north side of the rain and water they have no good relations

with israel trouble is that to get from israel to observe and you have to overfly turkey and at the moment i don't see with the current relations between israel and turkey i don't see the turks giving any in aid if we look across the border at syria why is serious so important for western nations could it be that it's the last obstacle before and invasion of iran that is a tough one why syria is important. is it important i mean to to the west of the state i don't see any western country in the intervening in syria as they did in libya where there is so much attention and focus on syria and particularly on me president bashar assad's handling of the situation so how do you explain that oh the. that would be expected from the west it's much closer to

europe and with the traditional relations traditional relationship with countries like france. and when such atrocities take place them and they cannot stay quiet is there a connection between what is happening in syria and what is happening in iran where there is a connection or obvious connection because iraq is syria has been. and the us sudra dream has been iran's process tally for over two decades i mean. this is. the main road out of iran into lebanon into into the whole region into influencing israel if us of the region falls apart. iran is standing to lose a very strong alley because any government would take place it would take

the government in syria whether it be a western ally and democracy which is not very likely or muslim muslim brothers who are sunni who are very hostile to shoot iran. any region. would be either hostile to run or far from cooperating with iran as much as the. bashar assad regime has been so iran is standing to lose a major supply of weapons to the syrian opposition enough to upset the regional arms balance right now no break no work what i hear i think saudi arabia's started to supplying them with weapons but we're talking about light weapons so this as far as or as long as long as that is what is happening i don't think this will

change them in the balance of power in the middle east there are still very weak so possible that they can be simultaneous interventions in syria and iran doesn't seem likely i don't see the european european union or nato going into syria and i don't see the european union or. taking part in an attack against iran this could be nato could. try to draw all the europeans into attacking targeting iran doesn't seem very likely if turks up here thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. you're welcome.

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is the endangered syrian rebels failed to provide written guarantees they will hold violence something the government says is the main condition for army withdraw the pullout is scheduled for tuesday according to the truce plan brokered by special envoy kofi annan. boycotts protests and marches shaking america's broader just gone lobby as anger over the controversial shooting off t.v. on martin gathers pace spilling over into the debate over the country's remarkably lax firearms law. south korean media hypes up rumors of a new nuclear test planned by the north just as supporting journalists see for

themselves at the final preparations for its much discussed rocket launch. so we have lines here in our team and let's see what's happening in the world of sports with unit. went to five for the champions league places and russia's premier league just got interesting you can tell us more it's really did the title looks as if it's going to be in it's in petersburg for another year but those big money each opens the places it looks like a bottle in the school more not coming up just a sec. have you with us this is sports we have plenty ahead of the next and eleven minutes or so including the stories in print. it's like a glove it's the jacket he thought he'd never get to wear the watson is gold twenty twelve masters champion. in the hunt spartak moscow to move up to third

in the russian premier league just a point behind c.s.k. moscow and not all important champions league qualifying spots. in the last men standing we recap the conference finals in the key challenge up on guard until now moscow get ready to contest the current cup final. there was no shortage of extraordinary highlights to go along with the surprise ending of golf's opening major of the year this weekend bubba watson the man left wearing the masters green jacket following an emphatic playoff win over louis west hasan twenty ten british open winner west hazen beginning the day all alone in third place before producing one of the most memorable shots ever seen up against the south african making a rare albatross on the second only the fourth such effort in the event seventy six year history giving westies in a surge of confidence with the twenty nine year old finished tied for least that's enough to keep the american however did his rival in the ensuing play off on the

cliffs and africa and save the day for the thirty three year old playing the coveted winner's green jacket shots after about the first time major winner now rises to a career high world number four and i tell you what the jacket fits well thank you this is like i said is a is a mecca for golf and this is what i want is the first major this is the biggest measure. this is the one major that plays the same place every year. as a beautiful four three that everybody loves to play for me this is a special time you know it's when he told me when we were walking to the green there he said only i said you know you're in here every year for the rest your life as long as you imply i will probably be a tough one to a lot you know it's it's like a so it's close to getting to a jacket but you know it felt like. so there's not much much more could

have done. let's talk football where spartak moscow has hopes of a champions league qualifying place this season we see the boost on sunday the red and white slam into third in the russian premier league following a dominant display at home to. a long range strike from a manual and the nikkei opening the scoring seven minutes in after some juvy is defending from the visitors that lead with double with half an hour to go already topping home for the two nil after more good work from the jury in any case to larry carbons men to just one point behind second place eskimo school in the battle for champions league football next season but a full dozen full feeders and eight with six games to go. earlier on sunday in the relegation group f.c. plus the dark came to a three one win over second from bottom f.c. charm the result all but you curing the siberian sides dropped from the top tier in all of us the light eight points adrift from safety well for us the door remain the runaway leaders of the group being on the scene pretty happy with that as well.

manager circuit has resigned his post the journeyman coach had been in charge since year his contract with the club was jus to expire at the end of the season but with his team rock bottom of the league he decided to work the we early the should have is quite incredible even one thing for manager or caretaker manager to leave or be sacked from his post in this the longest ever russian premier league season. now over an image manchester united have opened up a healthy eight point lead over title rivals manchester city following a chill win over q.p.r. a wayne rooney penalty in the second half full school strike enough to see off q.p.r. had shown terry sent off after just a quarter of an hour united's main rivals for the title none city meanwhile lost at arsenal mackellar technical with three minutes to play enough to move the gunners above tottenham to third city eight points behind leaders with half a dozen games to play. for hillary and so has won the year's opening moto g.p.

race in qatar. the twenty ten champion howden started from pole position since july put him in the most out of top spot on the grid this time around reeling champion casey stoner people renzo by some three seconds last year in the event really was hoping for similar after passing his rival on the third lap responder kept up the chase though while also battling. along the way the ranger returning the favor to stoner by passing him with three laps to go a lead he would keep on till the finish line produce a leader seeking into second with stoner forced to settle for just one race the spanish run free kicks off in three weeks. in tennis defending champion spain are safely through to the semifinals of the davis cup courtesy of a comprehensive four one win over austria they meet the most successful in the competitions history that is the united states who themselves age france in a full five mucha for the czech republic meanwhile to talk about last year's finalists argentina for

a place in this season's decider after overcoming the balkan neighbors serbia and respect. to the n.b.a. where the spurs are looking every bit like the team that won four n.b.a. championships from one thousand nine hundred nine to two thousand and seven santonio pushing their winning streak to eleven straight games the top of the western conference standings with the also fast approaching the teams on question leader ten duncan still going strong in his fifteenth season a thirty five year old finishing with thirteen points sixteen rebalanced another son twenty one mainstay tony parker running again twenty points the twenty nine year old taking devin horace to class with a spectacular move late in the first another key piece of the team manager nobly was also firing on all cylinders adding twenty three points off the bench the argentinian saying he was deliberately seeking out hard hits by driving to the pocket on the night aiming to toughen up before the more physical n.b.a. season hundred forty one for the planets were intense. but it was finally to the

kontinental hockey league where we now know who'll be slugging it out it's in this year's decider you know not score proving themselves on beatable in the west but guard top the eastern conference meaning it's two first time teams this season in the decider and this is how they got their. live

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