if you're just joining aren't. these are your headlines the junctions got their final shortlist of presidential candidates but fear a return to mubarak's era with his prime minister returning to the greats. border order leaders pander to florists ring right wing factions with the french president even threatening to quit the show and get a free travel zone. a protest mood sweeping through russia relations with the

u.s. president with a different value it's his legacy and his final media q. and a before leaving the kremlin. a massive blast tears through in a legit of rubble ball making a lap in syria as the successor to the infamous block water of mercenary company seemingly takes the opposition under its wing. contradictory statements from me israeli leadership only a rainy and nuclear issue have made clear just how tension on the subject has soared next year on r t we discuss the situation with retired u.s. colonel douglas macgregor. we're sitting down with douglas macgregor a retired army colonel who fought in the gulf war and was referred to by some officials as the best fighter the u.s. army has got mr macgregor thank you very much for joining me 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 at least in the places that count at 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 not 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 that 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 leadership sees 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 you know what do you think about that window of opportunity for israel 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 remco the saudi arabian oil corporation. but in that short period of time or oil skyrocketed on the market up beyond one 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 you 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 a 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 the 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 in reaching 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 sway 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 to 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 to trump card is subversion. the ability to subvert so the retaliation 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 beyond your borders in populations friendly to you to attack the other person's interests now we should underestimate how much damage that could involve and remember we know the difference since hizbollah 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 you know those are the kinds of things that i would expect that a direct military confrontation would be a losing proposition for them they might be able to inflict damage on our air 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 weigh 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. these rallies 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 will 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 rolled 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 forces are 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 organs see another was don't look at you want it 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.

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well i was in the latest polls who's here the top stories. heroes come home casual champions did not know touchdown in moscow with the guardian cup after coming back from the brink to win the series four three and. while singing the blues jersey marino hopes chelsea beat by munich to win the champions league final after the german giants knocked out his relegated side in a dramatic penalty shootout at the bernabeu. back in action while number one victoria azarenka kickstarts high clay court season in stuttgart having lost a new force in the years so far. but first i saw guarin cup winners do now i must go have enjoyed a jubilant homecoming after climbing the k h l title for the first time hundreds of fans turned out to greet the team in the russian capital after their triumph over adam god in siberia well their plane touched down at the local airport just hours

after they'd won the title decider one male to claim the best of seven series four games to three well it's the first time in the competitions four year history dynomite have been crowned champions and the moscow side clinched it in a thrilling fashion two after coming back from the brink of elimination three one down in the series but in game number seven do not move forward surely by being kept and scored once during the finals was thrown in the air by fans and revealed a picture drawn by your own daughter that helped inspire the team to victory. in the challenge and a lot of friends gave us great support but the most important game from my girls my princess when we were losing that series was one of them for me to speak it was with me for the rest of the series i showed it to my teammates and told them the most important thing is that our families believe in us and tara think it's possible. well just hours before the team lined up in almost the one. thank so will crash i'm going. pot lettings arena but despite outnumbering the blue white

support is very little could separate the sides and it wasn't until seven minutes before the final buzzer that sam graham's we were not beating goals and that kerry ramos i'm going all out to find an equalizer in the face that he can with an extra forward in a final throw the dice but i couldn't find a way through until my book found champions. league you're getting. really on the field would have to say it's the toughest rabbit the little caesars and wield the best so early but first a member of the go go go is most important to go for it there's nothing much to say but it did me really get their voice out first show it was a good but i don't really want to know yet over what i wanted to get up into that. now moving on to football and real madrid a marine who wants chelsea to be buying manik in the champions league final after

the german side beat his. penalty shootout in the second leg of their semi final of the all the german team had held a two one advantage from the first leg and that was overturned in the first fifteen minutes in madrid christiane are now though scoring from the penalty spot only on. another to put right now in the driving seat but the tie was all square again when i and robin scored a spot kick himself to make the tight three three on to us and that's how it remained penalties we needed. last boston schweinsteiger converses vine into the final which we played at their own arena against chelsea on may the nineteenth. and white male coach jones i'm wearing your hopes his former club chelsea will take top honors. mine neither does 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 x.

your time penalty shoot outs if you know 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 and will not be something to go absolutely crazy about such a great objective that we have achieved and this will be something unique. of course i want the blues to win but with a lot of respect for the reds. i just want to. shows who was there were heroes for the. heroes. people that they sing they're the most of the game. chelsea the same way they criticize two years ago. but there no nothing. well despite leading chelsea to the champions league and f.a. cup finals blues caretaker manager roberto di matteo won't know if he has been given the job full time until the end of the season since taking over as interim

coach after the sacking of and regular of course the former chelsea midfielder has won ten of his fifteen games in charge and lost only once to won a title chase has managed to secure last month however blues chief executive ron goalie has ruled out and appointment. well meanwhile the europa league takes center stage this thursday night where unlike the champions league final there will be at least one spanish side in the last two atletico madrid travel to fellow lulie balance here and have a healthy four two advantage from the first leg yet despite athletico being the favorites away goals from uranus and ricardo costa. help. obviously we need to win and by two goals but we have to take into account the potential the place you can madrid have we need to take into account the abilities of both the team as a whole and the individuals or. and for there to be at all spanish final athletic bilbao will have to overturn a two one deficit from their first leg

a sporting lisbon portugal a side welcome back midfielder matty has been and those are two game ban but will be missing midfielder now though and center back alberto rodriguez through injury at this stage sporting are the favorites to make the final in bucharest with a plane down their chances. moment or no the truth is that it's let you carry a good school it's true that against us we deal with the great job. but the car is a lot recently with still day games and i was there so this is a moment of brush we need to stay focused so they can't just be. just as tennis now and women's world number one victoria azarenka is facing unseeded german and their pet give it in her first clay court match of the season in stuttgart this encounter will also be as aren't his first since suffering her only defeat of the season at the hands of marion bartoli last month and the top ranked belorussian is in line to play bartoli next in the quarter finals while the frenchwoman is up against local wildcard moan about self one already three there is patrick said about the

wimbledon champion making light work of former french open winner francesca schiavone and could play former world number one caroline wozniacki should the danes overcome the challenge of country kerber. one meanwhile back here in moscow russia's best martial artists have been honored at a prestigious awards ceremony the men's best athlete of the year award was given to a twenty year old world super bantamweight and featherweight kickboxing sensation. while the women's best athlete i've been here title went to atlanta and eight time sunbow world champion the event was organized by the russian martial arts union with some of the fighters saying give us 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.

he was a big surprise for me to win this award not only that the union picked me but also that i was able to achieve it always given everything towards improving their way in as of sports so that's a gross and continues to be a staple part of our country but. and finally and new force is emerging in the world of sailing russian gas giant gazprom is bankrolling a european yacht and crow and that already metal waves in the sport and the ports. 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 boat 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 in three time olympic champion villains schuman and supported by the world's largest natural gas extraction gas. nothing short of high tech brilliance would do for such a cast of characters with a boat fittingly being considered the fastest supermax model haul in the world the twenty four international crew members 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. you going to seem cheap just the mastermind behind the project this libyan has been nurturing the idea of continental unity in sailing from one thousand nine hundred ninety five with european commission president jose manual barroso eventually sang off on the ambitions project he pitched the idea to gas problems c.e.o.

alexei 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 cinches however is well aware that his brain challenge needs to win some of the world's more prestigious events to truly bring its cost of the for. warfront you make us cop for us the america's cup has always been a goal for the future for you as you know our skipper your couldn't shoe man that has won the event why yes nevertheless the estimates in europe are project is getting ready for everything with the america's cup. and release. over a possible your. body on the project's founder now hopes he can bring about smoother sailing when it comes to cooperation in other regions the super bowl aiming to make waves on the continent by promoting superior business and diplomatic unity bonzi gorski our team last.