the latest news of the week in review it is the weekly top stories rusher accuses syrian rebels of fighting to bring down the u.n. brokered peace plan as a shipment of smuggled arms 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. stand by his pledge to cut immigration loose in the first round of the french presidential election. it's the national front votes that are now up for grabs during the may the sixth runoff. of the twenty people are still being

treated in hospitals in the ukrainian city of. a series of bombs exploded there on friday leaving thirty injured the suspected terror attacks also fear abroad as the country prepares to host the. not guilty british lie detector experts say the u.k.'s main suspect a russian n.p. wasn't involved in the murder of the former security officer alexander litvinenko in london six years ago the bloody murder caused huge tension between the kremlin and downing street. about one another summary point fifteen minutes from now in the meantime israel is ratcheting up its war rhetoric against iran despite no definite proof tehran is building a nuclear weapon when next we ask a former u.s. army colonel how far 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 provided to all that 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 in close quarters of president obama to just 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 it's based really on the i think the american israeli public affairs committee and it's a subordinate elements are affiliated elements that represent enormous quantities of money that over many years have cultivated the enormous influence and power in congress and you said we 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 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 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 have any 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 effect some say even if you weigh as having decided to build a bomb they sure will if attacked will 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 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. ration it's 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 him 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 but 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 and other 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 know that's one of my organ said other words 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. wealthy british style sun it's time to write something. for the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on our.

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latest news in the weekend review russia accuses syrian rebels of. the shipment of arms for the opposition. the un is expanding its observer mission to syria in an attempt to oversee a. pledge to cut immigration after losing the first round of the french presidential election. it's the national votes for them now up for grabs during the made the rubble. over twenty people are still being treated in hospital. after a series of bombs exploded there on friday leaving thirty injured the suspected

terror attacks. rule of as the country prepares to host the euro two thousand and twelve football tournament. plus not guilty to experts. russian wasn't involved in the murder of the former security officer alexander litvinenko in london six years ago the. huge tension between the kremlin and. back with more news stories in full in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime. hello welcome to the sport on this action packed sunday and here are the top stories. six of the best fernando torres scored a hat trick as in form chelsea thrashed q.p.r. six more in the west london dog paul taught them by taking on black bird in the

english premier league. while high hopes newly crowned champions of the so petersburg set their sights on european success after claiming a second straight russian premier league title. plus third time lucky maria sharapova looks to be top seed victoria azarenka the first time in three finals as the world's top two again dubai for. the first a football on fernando torres scored his first chelsea hat trick as the blues thrashed q.p.r. six one at stanford bridge in the west london davi to boost their hopes of a top four finish in the english premier league well fresh from their champions league triumph of the boss alone about the home side scored four goals in a blistering first twenty five minutes daniel sturridge opened after just forty eight seconds then skipper john terry headed in from a corner out before torres robbie goalkeeper paddy kenny then capitalized on the shortstop as erik to make it for neil and i refused the running in the sixty fourth minute substitute lauren luda added the six before you proceed faced with

a consolation rangers a seventeenth rivetted di matteo's in form blues go fifty yet rivals talk them could leave for good news like we wanted and are leaving until food on the boss and goals in to stop the time they're at white hart lane. while on monday all eyes are on manchester as a second place city whose leaders united in what's good proved to be a title deciding doggie a look at the table shows if reverted mancini slide when they will leapfrog united and go top on goal difference with two games remaining but if united waited than they will leave like six points and. the title man city are going for their first top flight tried since nine hundred sixty eight united price because twentieth and cheney think she likes it out of favorites. everything is going to happen but as much as they say i think that. more than i was because of. who should be mine and after we should play against newcastle it would be

a. good game and after we stared united would play against each one serious and i did that for them would be too easy getting. well elsewhere the title could also be decided in spain's league as this sunday night round madrid will be having wasilla lose their match to go where ghana to reclaim the crime for the cats one side with three games to play they were in your side are ten points clear at the top following a three mile drubbing upset at the bernabeu christiane are now the right front before carrying bans him on i think another two even three second half minutes. while here in russia isn't so great as work and setting their sights on european success after becoming russian champions for the third time in five years with a two one win is home to deny moscow the hosts lead off to half an hour through the launch of rock off five minutes later leaving your distraught old a penalty which top spot at least on the verge of going to be converted but almost

immediately alexandru at today although pulled one back for dinner. and then ten minutes after the break is in it had come since in the on off sent off however they held on to want it finished and then the celebrations began. so the fans saluted their team's achievement and as the champagne flowed coach new chinese political race his team's mental toughness over a long eighteen month season the italian also claims that it wanted to become one of europe's top ten science and were prepared to invest in new players over the summer to boost the squad chances in the champions league well in the meantime the players enjoyed their moment of domestic success midfielder out of on should walk off but his teammates to sign his shirt in memory of their latest title while the founds also made sure i didn't go home empty handed. but i'll swear to start leapfrog spots i can discern after beating their arch rivals to wanting the moscow dog spot x. rb was guilty of an awkward i would go midwest through the first half the brazilian failing to clear a free kick was out on full search but the red whites made amends right before the

interval. lashing in equaliser. however they were found the winner by curling in a beautiful creek. we are we meant to walk. us but i'll swear a double samuel eto so a lot of our t.v. three wanted to tell us i think terrible start with past but like putting to the net after twenty five minutes however just seven minutes later the women were level thanks to the nice you should call circuit that after the break turned the tables over single handedly first the cameron strike and made the best of a defensive how let me break through the second half. and they settled matters with a dazzling injury time go go fifth into the rate the places where they just outside follow five gave us to us.

stuff our brains hopes of finishing in the right believe places were dented until they got to come from behind to draw one want to time to bond markets bizarrely break the deadlock almost the net with twenty minutes left but not show converted a penalty in the eighty fourth minute to stretch a point for being the seventh to the meanwhile over the seven time league champions league you will be part timers to be one milton that's the french cup the surge division side were under pressure naturally from the start and eventually conceded what proved to be the winner after half an hour to sandra lopez actually going to the end of alexander has that cross and despite a valiant effort from the underdogs that goal was enough to give lee all their fist french cup the first piece of silverware since their league and cup double in two thousand and eight. and is now under a sure operates hoping to make it certain lucky this sunday the russian has already lost in two finals this season to world number one victoria azarenka but has

a chance for revenge at the porsche grand grange have gone they are in that with the belorussian being the favorites to win the gone after victories over sure but finally the astray and open and indian wells. walt men's world number two up on the dollar's up against fellow spiny adopted fair in the final of the boss allowing ripen the dullest saved five set points to windy i think set on the time great came to play he's looking for his second the title of the year on his favorite surface after stealing a record eight one to colo title last week. now into ice hockey in russia are gunning to retain their title as they take on host the czech republic in the last leg of the euro hockey tour russia one point one of the czechs applets off so whoever wins this one will win the four nation tournament while sweden will get the wooden spoon following a four one defeat by reigning world champions finland the czech games are the last major tournament ahead of next month's world championships which will be jointly held in helsinki on stockholm. now into motorsports the reigning motor g.p.

world champion casey stoner has taken his first ever victory at the spanish grand prix to pall of pressure on standings need to hold their lorenzo after winning the season opening racing cars already at this month's neurons are also starting from pole. but he was swiftly overtaken by fellow spaniard dani pedrosa before starting to also stepped up a gear to pull out in front off to just two laps well the australian was troubled by the renzo throughout but it's going to edge the local favorite by the second it's a sweet victory the stoner still not enough to catch lorenzo at the top of the standings four points now separate the two. and they're the physio so. as far as you know it's one of the four it doesn't really matter united is the traction no one you know you haven't won there's always a first time but just the fact that you know we sort of turned it around again overnight yes and i wasn't looking good for us and you know we were different

struggling a little bit with the set up so we had to find some for the race today and i'm fortunate that was where we we took a gamble for the race and. it worked out. on to golf now and after failing to win in one hundred sixty three starts american jason dufner led the zurich classic in new orleans going into the final round while englishman luke donald looks sense to regain the world number one spot just now has been a runner up twice on the p.g.a. tour but finished his third round two shots clear of the field after hitting a five under par sixty seven on the penultimate day well canadian graham delight seen here he is in second while donnelly needs to finish in the top seven to return to the summit of the world rankings he's currently eighth shot behind american steve stricker. who finally knows what it is like to win is burned these burger the australian claimed his maiden title on the european tour with

a five shot victory at the ballantine championship in south korea after the twenty six year old held off a late challenge from scotland's richie ramsay. i had the free best rounds of my life the last three days and you can just. relax and go out there and i tried not to make it pretty rosy was also. now over in the u.s. chicago bulls star player derrick rose is out of the n.b.a. playoffs after picking up a knee injury and his side's postseason opening victory of the philadelphia when the bulls run out one hundred three points to ninety one victories over the seventy six is in game one of their eastern covens meeting in chicago and last season's m.v.p. rose was the top story up for you twenty three points and nine assists who slipped through a point to open up a twenty point lead in the fourth quarter and then with about a minute left in the game fell to the ground tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee which will rule him out for the rest of the season with. a pending

champions the dallas mavericks lost by one point two ninety nine ninety eight of the oklahoma city thunder miami hayes have an early seriously though against the new york knicks after the bron james thirty two points and the orlando magic the indiana pacers eighty one seventy seven. and finally russia's middleweight boxing champion dimitri pitt although 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 bat during his open training session here in moscow but all go well defend his w b o belt against japanese challenger noble hero ishita on tuesday during the russian public holiday the unbeaten holder is the overwhelming favorite to win but he expects a tough and interesting fight. and that's all the sports news bison.