this is our team with the latest news on the weekend review a rusher accuser syrian rebels of fighting on to bring down the u.n. brokered peace plan as a shipment of smuggled bombs for the opposition is intercepted by lebanon this comes as the u.n. is expanding its observer mission to syria in an attempt to oversee a cease fire. nicolas sarkozy stands by his pledge to cut immigration losing the first round of the french presidential election to socialist candidate francois hollande the national front so far right that are now up for grabs during

the may the sixth row. over twenty people are still being treated in hospitals in the ukrainian city of the put up by the softer a series of bombs exploded there on friday injuring thirty suspected terrorist times also stoked fear abroad as the country prepares to host the euro twenty twelve football. not guilty british of the lie detector experts say the main suspect a russian m.p. was not involved in the murder of former security officer alexander litvinenko in london six years ago the polonium murder case called hughes tension between the kremlin and. now israel is ratcheting up its war rhetoric against iran despite certain proof that iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon and former u.s. army. both israel and america could go when it comes to dealing with iran.

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 mccracken 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 corpse of president obama to back a potential strike and as you said the administration 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 real. acted 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 the leadership see this summer as that window of opportunity that they don't want to put 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 for 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 or 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 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 don't think that the israeli leadership sees this as a window of opportunity of the me but 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 evident. that iran has acquired 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 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 in rich in 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 we have a very needy a will sone 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 and some predict what kind of the media backlash should they expect iran struck a chord 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 and

beyond your borders and 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 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 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. these elites 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 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 his own 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 and other words. not a good development from the standpoint of united states or europe so i think that's understood secondly there is 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 if there were such as 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 things 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 not 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 that are killing innocent kids allies across the base of course and that's never ants. on the songs on the skull still with me i think of it every day. the flashbacks from the memories. of so much so that a long time i'm just here trying to help. i was ashamed. i was ashamed that

i didn't. i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why. i got my legs. in the mine. when i went to vietnam or to. head out what i was going on once or i think. that i was a good soldier. but you know most soldier on the other side and i think i'm just in a good. wealthy british style. markets. can find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause

a report on our. the latest news on the week in review here. rusher accuses syrian rebels of fighting on to bring down the un brokered peace plan this comes as a shipment of smuggled arms for the opposition is intercepted by levanon it's all as the u.n. is expanding its observer mission to syria in an attempt to oversee a cease fire. nicolas sarkozy stands by his pledge to cut immigration after losing the first round of the french presidential election to a socialist candidate francois hollande it is the national front so far right votes there are now up for grabs during the may the sixth runoff. over twenty people are still being treated in hospitals in the ukrainian city of. after

a series of bombs exploded on friday injuring thirty suspected terror attacks also stoked fear abroad as the country repairers to host the euro twenty twenty. plus a not guilty british lie detector experts say the u.k.'s main suspect a russian m p was not involved in the murder of former security officer alexander litvinenko in london six years ago or the polonium murder caused huge tension between the kremlin and downing street. are now here and it's all getting rather exciting at both ends of the english premiership with all the action all the news is kate. hello welcome to the sport on this action back sunday and here are the headlines.

six of the best fernando torres scored a hat trick as in form chelsea trash q.p.r. six one in the west london darby to go fifth in the english premier league top you are about to get off against blackburn. while high hopes newly crowned champions in its own petersburg set their sights on europe after claiming a second straight russian premier league title. and third time lucky maria sharapova looks to beat top seed victoria azarenka for the first time in three finals as the walls talk to you again do battle in stuttgart. but first a football on fernando torres scored his first chelsea have as the blues thrashed q.p.r. six one and stanford bridge in the west london darby to boost their hopes of a top four finish in the english premier league well the home side scored four goals in a very strong first twenty five minutes daniel sturridge opened after just forty eight seconds then skipper john terry headed in from a corner before torres rounded goalkeeper paddy kenny and then capitalized on the shortstop as a written making for now and then added on to running in the sixty fourth minute

substitute florida added the six for djibril see sayes late consolation for rangers their seventeenth but reverted to inform the blues go for this yet rivals tottenham courtly from various relegation pointed blackburn lost their last five need not use those spurs once third have now won just one in the line. for me while on monday all eyes are on manchester a second place city hosts leaders united in what could prove to be a title deciding davi a quick look at the table shows that if roberto mancini's city side when they will leapfrog united and go top on goal difference with two games remaining but if you know i did win then they will leave by. six points and all but change the title also if you're going for that first top flight trying since nine hundred sixty eight united for a record twentieth that's mancini think united are the favorites. every three can happen but. i'm up you know if they're saying i think that. more chance than i

was because the. mind and after we should play you guys knew. it would be. over game and after it would be instead united would play against chauncey s. and for doing that for them would be to easy game. meanwhile here in russia are also defending their premier league title on saturday as a need to now set their sights on european success coach and john as well as he says this isn't petersburg club will invest in players over the summer to improve their chances in next summer's champions league after becoming russian champions for the first time in five years with a two one we intend to do them in moscow on sons of a host led down the hall from the house with a long shot off five minutes later but gave a strong and a penalty which top score that is on the persian gulf junior converted but almost immediately alexandru at woody allen who pulled one back for denominate and then ten minutes after the break they need tad concertinas the on off sent off for

a second yellow however they held on until you want it finished and then the celebrations began. well the founds a salute to their team's achievement and as the champagne flowed split he praised his team's mental toughness over a long eighteen month season he also claims that he had wanted to become one of europe's top ten sides and were prepared to embrace the squad in the summer but for now though the players are enjoying the moment and feel the man should all call getting his teammates to sign he shows in memory of their latest title while the fans made sure they didn't go home empty handed either. but i was right there's got leapfrogs parts i can divert after beating their arch rivals to want to moscow dobby on saturday our he was guilty of an awkward i'll go read way through the first half brazilian failing to get a free kick out on posh huge but it's the right whites made a man's right after the interval mashing in equalizer. however birthday boy found the winner curling in

a free kick for the army men two on. a double for the same letter or so and much of three one match column mofo had a terrible start with pastor lack putting through this and that after twenty five minutes however just seven minutes later the railway men were at level five through the solution course if it but it's so turned the tables almost singlehandedly after the break the cameron strike out first made the most of a defensive howler midway through the second half. settled matters with a dazzling injury time goal and now they're fifth into the europa league places are lucky if they just outside in a five game sprint. nice ask me more reveals i was have been in the right places when dented and when i got to come from behind to draw one wanted time to combine. breaking the deadlock and almost the net with twenty minutes left before it was not show converted

a penalty in the closing stages to snatch a point for being us seven pts. when we were all over in france leo have won their first trophy in four years after they beat part time is given one nil to lift the french cup play in the french third division and it wasn't surprising they found themselves under pressure from the start and eventually conceded what turned out to be the winner after half an hour the sandra lopez getting into the end of an exit on the left as it crossed and that proved to be enough to give lee on their first piece of silverware since their league and cup double in two thousand and eight. now into tennis and reassure operates hoping to make it certain lucky sunday she's already lost in two finals this year to world and one victoria azarenka but has a chance for revenge at the puerto grove preached at guard marshall out of a set up the showdown with a straight set win over petra critical on saturday the czech did save matchpoint in

the second to force a tie break but sharapova sailed through that seven three for the match national face a tougher task against desiring the belorussian had an easy win over agnieszka dancer in her semi and is the favorite after final victories over the russian straight open and going wells. while many top number two rough on the dollar is up against fellows very in the final of the barcelona rifle being the play is looking for his second title of the year on his favorite surface. still a record eighth one to call it title last week. down to ice hockey in russia are going to retain their sidle as they take on hosts the czech republic in the latest leg of the euro hockey to russia one point clear of the text at the top so whoever wins this want to go with the four nation tournament while sweden will get the wooden spirit following a fourth defeat by reigning world champion special and the czech games are the last major tournament ahead of next month's world championships which will be jointly health in helsinki non-stock home. now on to motor sport and reigning

world champion casey stoner has taken his first ever victory at the spanish grand prix to pole the pressure on standings leader jorge lorenzo at the top after winning the season opening race in cattle earlier this month the reds are also starting from pole in peth but he was swiftly overtaken by fellow spaniard danny producer before stoner stepped up a gear to pull out in front of to just two lumps however the australian was troubled by lorenzo throughout on going to pledge the local favorite by the second it was a sweet victory for stone now but still not enough to catch the end zone at the top of the standings four points now separate the two came third ahead of cal crutchlow and they're the physios so. now after failing to win in one hundred sixty three starts go for jason dufner is on the verge of ending his title drought the american league is the zurich classic in new orleans while in this one luke donald look sets

to regain the world number one spot while duff now has been runner up twice on the p.g.a. tour but is now two shots clear of the field in new orleans with one round left to play he hit a five under par sixty seven on the penultimate day graeme delight that same here is just behind him while donald needs to finish in the top seven to return to the top of the world rankings he's currently eighth shot behind steve stricker. my child there one man who finally knows what it's like to weigh in is burned to v's berga he claimed his maiden title of the european tour with a falling short victory at the ballantine championship in south korea the twenty six year old holding off a late challenge from scotland's richie ramsay. had three placed runs my life the last three days and you can just. relax and go out there and i tried not to make it it's pretty. small some. of the means on the n.b.a.

playoffs have got under way was top seeds the chicago bulls enjoying a one hundred three to ninety one victory over philadelphia in the postseason however the victory was overshadowed by a serious injury to the bulls m.v.p. derrick rose he top scored on the night with twenty three points and nine assists this like three points up up a twenty point lead in the fourth but late in the final he crumbled to the ground. tearing and need ligament which will put him out of the playoffs news which took the shine off a comfortable win for the ball's in the eastern conference. conference with. a loss where the defending champions the dallas mavericks lost by one pointed oklahoma at ninety nine ninety eight miami heat have the early series lead against the new york knicks after the bron james hit thirty two points and the orlando magic beat the indiana pacers eighty one seventy seven. and finally russia's

middleweight boxing champion dimitri peer dog says he's prepared for everything his next opponent has to throw at him however the thirty one year old didn't reveal his master plan for the bout during his open training session here in moscow but all will defend his w b o belt against japanese challenger noble hugo ishida on tuesday june the russian public holiday the unbeaten holder is the overwhelming favorite to win but he says he expects a tough and interesting fight. that's all sport for this pose in the lobby another update in just under two hours but until then by for the.