time now for the main headlines a month before egypt's presidential vote confusion and disappointment over the election campaign brothers recent reinstatement of the barracks former prime minister as a candidate has cast a shadow over the results of the revolution which toppled the previous regime. but you should lie detector experts clear of russian and pain of any involvement in the killing of former security legs underneath a monkey in london six years. of the boy's taste prime suspect in the murder case and then stumbling block in russian british relations. europe's heralded open borders which many see is a core principle of the come under threat the sarkozy ups's and integration rhetoric ahead of the presidential runoff saying france could quit trying to answer

. contradictory statements from the israeli leadership on the iranian nuclear issue and showcased how tension around the issue has soared next to aaron r.t. we discussed the situation with retired u.s. colonel douglas macgregor. we're sitting down with douglas macgregor every tired army colonel who fought in the gulf war and was referred to by some officials as the best fighter the us army has got mr macgregor thank you very much for joining good to be here president obama has put forward an ultimatum for iran either make progress with negotiators or face consequences consequences meaning war some say a strike may happen within the next few months in your opinion how realistic is that should we expect the war in summer topical question right now in washington

d.c. i think the answer right at the moment is no president obama is not remotely interested in waging war against iran so let's be clear about that no one at the top of the united states military establishment is interested in waging war against iran and the intelligence community has made it abundantly clear that iran is nowhere near the development of a nuclear warhead or the capacity to deliver one so we had those things up it's very very obvious that it least in the places that count the white house the department of defense there is no interest in waging a war on iran and let me say something that's so great there is a great push from israeli influence groups what president obama just back a potential strike and as you said they had ministration says the iranians haven't even decided to build a bomb so all this war talk is based on what is based really on i think the american israeli public affairs committee and it's

a subordinate elements or affiliated elements they represent enormous quantities of money that over many years have cultivated enormous influence and power in congress and you simply are talking is just to appease the lobbyists well i think you've got a lot of people on the hill who fall into two categories one category that is interested in money and wants to be reelected and they don't want to run the risk of the various lobbies that are that are pushing. military action against iran to contribute money to their opponents colonel macgregor some say these trade leaderships see this summer as that window of opportunity that they don't want to miss for two reasons one iran has very few friends in the wage and syria its closest ally is a mess right now and second presidential elections coming up in the u.s. some say israel is going to use their leverage over president obama and it's going to be very hard for him to say no what do you think about that window of

opportunity if as well well if you were to launch a strike in the summer this would cause a dramatic downturn in the economy just consider that we had a rumor that supposedly iranian commandos had destroyed a pipeline in saudi arabia other fanciful nonsense and eventually it was denied by aramco the saudi arabian oil corporation but in that short period of time or oil skyrocketed on the market up beyond a hundred fifteen dollars a barrel but the point is just the rumor of action was enough to send the oil through the roof so we had a foretaste there of the dramatic economic consequences for the world if we move ahead and support israel in its desire to strike iran that's why i don't think president obama is remotely interested so they don't think that the israeli leadership sees this summer as a window of opportunity the they may but look don't count out the israeli population let's not assume that everyone in israel is anxious to see iran

destroyed i think that's misleading there's more division of opinion in israel than we think so again how long can mr netanyahu and mr barak play this game of the century trying to bully president obama and push him into an action that he would otherwise choose not to take did ministration is basically saying all they need is evidence that iran has acquired a nuclear weapons capability and here's what i want to ask you. about this capability issue because it's very vague i mean it means being capable of doing something but not necessarily doing it yes how do you see it was deliberately vague it's deliberately ambiguous so that various people can define it as they like what is a capability to do something in terms of weapons nuclear weapons development well how much rich geranium are we talking about is it just enriching uranium does it involve packaging the enriched uranium does it involve a test of some type no one has been very specific and i think that's purposeful

because you could if you're sitting in the white house right now and you're sitting at the cia n.s.a. or in the pentagon you can always say well we said capability we don't see it yet so is the purpose of that to to keep the u.s. way at least in this in vagueness well president obama is preeminent concern is to get reelected. and that's a very dangerous proposition right now for him depending upon what the israelis do if they launch a strike but a say on their own without consulting us independent of us entirely and they do it say late october shortly before the election obama then can say well you know we're obligated we have to help our israeli friends and he looks good if they do it earlier then the consequences could be very profound for him because it would certainly tank our economy we would be in severe difficulty here in the united states if select we have a very needy a will so only an interventionist elite inside washington that operates

independently of the american people that thinks of itself as being morally superior and justified in taking action anywhere against anyone that it deems appropriate that's the problem and the iranians are justifiably concerned about that but they have not reached the point where they can weaponize anything they don't have that capability and we do have the ability to detect that know it and respond to it they know those things what we need to do is move beyond this ridiculous confrontational setting that both of us are trapped in and that's very hard to do in an election year when everyone is pandering to various elements of the electorate for money and votes colonel let's say world powers p five plus one negotiate something but the results don't satisfy as well and the west and they do go to war in summer as some predict what kind of the media backlash should they

expect iran struck a chord is subversion. the ability to subvert so that we tally ation would be in the form of terrorism it would be in the form of what i would call asymmetric attacks in other words high payoff low investment in other words use what you can and beyond your borders in populations friendly to you to attack the other person's interests now we shouldn't underestimate how much damage that could involve and remember we know the difference since his villa as well as other as iranian elements are here in the united states so we know that we would sustain losses here at home there would be damage here in the united states how many bombs would you have to explode in public malls to do enough damage to awaken everybody to what's going on my point is we you know those are the kinds of things that i would expect but a direct military confrontation would be a losing proposition for them they might be able to inflict damage on our forces

and our naval forces but not on the scale that would make any difference to the outcome they they would sustain enormous damage and enormous losses what about long term the fact some say even if you were and haven't decided to build a bomb they sure will if attacked well i was something more important that we talk about what they will do if they are attacked i think we should look at the rest of the world what will the rest of the world do if israel attacks iran remember this is an unprovoked assault. did the israelis can claim otherwise and insist otherwise and paint this picture of enormous danger represented to israel but the truth is no one buys that my view has always been that if you do this if israel does this that iran will very definitely have nuclear weapons they won't have to build them they'll get them people will provide those to them they will have more help than they know what to do with any iran will grow more hostile and more bitter and more angry and more dangerous than it has ever been i want to ask you about syria the

obama administration has kind of ruled out a military intervention saying it's too complicated what in your opinion. keeps the u.s. from attacking syria there are several things first of all there is a quiet recognition behind closed doors that if assad is removed however much people do not like hoffa's or assad that the government that succeeds in will be a radical islamist sunni muslim government hostile to israel hostile to the west hostile to shia islam in other words. not a good development from the standpoint of the united states or europe. so i think that's understood secondly there's an understanding that syria actually has despite the fact it's much smaller than iran what twenty to twenty three million people i think very good armed forces it does have an integrated air defense structure that

would take some time to dismantle but its ground force is actually very good and it's of the arab forces i would describe the syrians is probably being among the best if not the best best disciplined best officer what would be the main argument that you would suggest for the u.s. not to attack iran right now we see iran through one lens in one way we see this as a unchanging theocracy that is very of the american anti western incurable if you will know the words it's fatally stricken with this theocratic disease of religious fanaticism i don't i think it will change and i think if we can back away from this iran will evolve differently over the next ten years and we don't have to have this hostile relationship or confrontation that would be i mean are you that's one of my organ see another was don't look at you want to change for the better you look at the future look at what is driving iran what is what is iran's principal interest internal modernization economic

development what do its people want israel to focus of everyone's hatred in iran absolutely no most iranians could care less about it in fact most iranians are not very friendly towards arabs so the bottom line is why are we doing what we're doing we're looking at things as though they will not change my point is that nixon had the foresight to understand china was at the beginning of a long period of change my point is that we're going to discover in the next few years that iran too is at the beginning of a long period of change thank you very much thank you. but did i kill innocent kids i was a calm face of course and that's never answered. the

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you watching the sport here in r.t. and this is what is coming up over the next few minutes heroes come home champions denominate touched down in moscow with garden cup after an amazing comeback against . wind start to kick spine into the champions league final after a dramatic penalty shootout win on the three hundred being the way russian cash and european expertise have become a new force on the high seeing. the current cup winners to normal moscow have received a jubilant homecoming playing make a challenge title hundreds of fans turned out to greet them after their triumph over god in siberia that plane touched down in the new airport just hours after he won the title decider one nil to climb the best of seven contests four games to three is the first time the competitions four year history the nama have won the

gar in cup an improbable. victory to which jordan comeback from three one down in the series to number four you're a banker who scored once in the series was straight into the air by fans and he also revealed a picture drawn by a young daughter had inspired them to victory. in a charity and a lot of friends gave us great support but the most important game from my girls my princess was when we were losing that series three one one of them drew me the speech or it was with me for the rest of the series i showed it to my teammates and told them that the most important thing is not our families believe in us and tara think it's possible. obviously a lucky charm we're just hours before the team had lined up in arms for a winner takes all clash haven't got fans packed the teams arena but despite the at and numbering the blue and white supporters there was very difficult cheese between the sides and it wasn't until seven minutes before the final buzzer that the nomic grabbed the winner just to play it this beating goalkeeper how to get ammo have

unguarded their best to find an equaliser and replace their caper but an extra man for a final throw the dice but they couldn't find their way through and the number of crowned champions. but now you're going to top it so. feeling zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero certain describe it looking at those you certainly are the best feeling there is to mellow about the goal your goal is most important in your career there's nothing much to my record but gave me a really good pass over there myself first show it wasn't good but now i did a good rebounder know you're aware that i'm on a good up internet. now football. on penalties to set up a champions league final with chelsea the german side have held a two one advantage from the first leg but that was overturned in the first fifteen minutes in madrid christiana without scoring from the spot before bagging another

to put reality in the driving seat time the tie was all square again when our robin scored a penalty himself to make it three three on aggregate and that's how it. blasted his. wind star converted to put in the final which will be played out that allianz arena against chelsea. can't wait. against his former club. a minute. the drama today was at the highest levels but that's what makes football interesting there are wonderful players goals tension to the very end extra time penalty shoot outs. throughout my career i've seen many games but when i think about the fact that we can play a final in our own stadium this is something to go absolutely crazy about it's such a great objective that we have achieved and this will be something unique. of course. but respect for the reds.

for the. people. of the muscles of the game. two years ago but. tonight it's the europa league which will take center stage and they'll be at least one spanish side who will make it to the final athletico madrid travel to valencia with a healthy forty two advantage from the first leg in the spanish capital although away goal from join us and ricardo costa have given valencia some hope twenty ten when it's athletic out are looking to reach their second finally in three seasons and camera eye on the goal the threat of striker falcao who is twenty seven strikes in as many europa league matches. obviously we need to win and by two goals

but we have to take into account the potential the madrid have we need to take into account the abilities of both the team as a whole and the individuals. well for there to be an all spanish final athletic bilbao will have to overturn a two one deficit from their first leg to sporting lisbon the portuguese side welcome back my ties fernandez after a two game ban but what we missing fabien were our due and alberto rodriguez three when jury although at this stage sporting are the favorites to make the final in bucharest. let's switch to tennis where world number two maria sharapova is into the quarterfinals of the stuck open the russian won the first set six three against a play called specialist corner who then suffered a shoulder injury at the start of the second and after treatment the french qualifier could only manage one more game before having to retire to wrap over. or sam stows and next. there's a similar story for you les yankovic this pulling out of her match with six seed

caroline wozniacki after falling a step behind the dane will face the and see the human and julie next. not a good day for us to be fans because an advantage which also crashed out losing in straight sets the local wildcard more of bothell seven five seven six the score there. now upset over the four seed agnes could advance because she easily softened gary better and better on winning in straight sets for advance staying on course at the moment for her title you. know the news rushes best martial artists have been on it at an awards ceremony in moscow this year the men's best athlete to be year award given to twenty year old world super bantamweight featherweight boxing sensation you're the organizer of and the women's best athlete of the year was awarded to spend on again an eight time sambo world champion event was organized by the russian russian martial arts union with some of the fighters saying it was more

nerve wracking getting into the ring. it was a harrowing experience to have to get up on stage in front of so many distinguished guests. it's easier to get in the ring than up there and despite my young age and small frame i think the union simply look to how successful i was this past year. it was a big surprise for me to win this award not only for the union picked me but also that i was able to achieve it i have always given everything towards improving their way in as a sport so that it grows and continues to be a staple part of our country. and finally a new forces emerging in the world of sailing russian gas giant gazprom is bankrolling a european yours and crew and is already making waves in the sport even the gov ski has more. emirates new zealand a lengthy switzerland stars and stripes one does not need to dig too deep to see which part of the world got to celebrate their bold success of the america's cup

and other competitions but a whole continent of sailing fans have had a reason to join together and celebrations lately they watched as the estimate europa boat crossed the finish line first in numerous competitions while representing the entire european union the team is really an all star crew of renowned sailors skipper by two time america's cup and three time olympic champion dylan schumann and supported by the world's largest natural gas extract and gas for . nothing short of high tech brilliance would do for such a cast of characters with a boat fittingly being considered the fastest supermax emotional haul in the world the twenty four international crewmembers have seemingly been able to get every last not out of the technological wonder taken liners at every event they've been in in two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven the two thousand and nine sydney to hobart and trance back races and the two thousand and ten and twenty eleven gerard houllier rolex cup just the tip of the iceberg in terms of honors by

the boat eager seem chits is the mastermind behind the project the slitheen ian has been nurturing the idea of continental unity in sailing says one nine hundred ninety five with european commission president jose manual barroso eventually signing off on the in business project he pitched the idea to gas problem c.e.o. of that same miller back in two thousand and six and procured a boat he felt was worthy of the logo of russia's largest company three years later since his however is well aware that his brain challenge needs to win some of the world's more prestigious events to truly bring its cost to the forefront the north america skop for us the america's cup has always been a goal for the future as you know our skipper your can sure man has won the event twice nevertheless the. estimates euro project is getting ready for everything with the america's cup revolver ocean race we're also mulling over a possible european cup race on the project's founder now hopes it can bring about

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