the latest news in the week in review this is that weekly live here in moscow russia accuses syrian rebels of firing on to bring down the un brokered peace plan as a shipment of smuggled on this 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 law to lose in the first round of the french presidential election. it's the national right votes that are now up for grabs during the may the sixth. over twenty people are still being treated in

hospitals in the ukrainian city of the nipple patrol after 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 euro twenty twelve football tournament. plus not guilty british lie detector experts say the u.k.'s main suspect a russian m.p. wasn't involved in the murder of the former security officer alexander litvinenko in london six years ago the murder caused huge tension between the kremlin and downing street. i'll be back with another summary of those stories in about fifteen minutes from now the meantime israel is ratcheting up its war rhetoric against iran despite no definite proof that to ron is actually 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 influence course on 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 it's based really on 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 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 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 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 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 you're 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 could always say well we said capability we don't see it yet so is the purpose of that to to keep the sway 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. 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 immediate 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 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 something even if you weigh and haven't 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 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 and ministration 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 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 the other 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.

see. if. the latest news in the week in review rusher accuses syrian rebels of bring down the u.n. peace plan as a shipment of small dogs 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. pledge to cut immigration off the loose in the first round of the french presidential election to socialist candidate. it's the national front for right votes up for grabs during the made the sixth run up. over twenty people are still being treated in hospitals in the ukrainian city of. after a series of bombs exploded there friday leaving thirty injured the suspected terror attacks also fear abroad as the country prepares to host the year of twenty twelve

football tournament. guilty british lie detector experts say the u.k.'s main suspect a russian m.p. wasn't involved in the murder of former security officer alexander litvinenko in london six years ago the polonium but of course huge tensions between the kremlin and downing street. those stories in full would mean fifteen minutes from now in the meantime kate is next with the sports. hello welcome to the sports and these other top stories. six of the best fernando torres scores a hot trickers in form chelsea's trash q.p.r. six one in west london darby paul taught them to be caught up until in english premier league. while i hope snooty crowned champions the needs in petersburg set their sights on a new experience excess compliment

a second straight russian premier league title. lucky maria sharapova breaks her jinx in stuttgart over powering world number one victoria azarenka in their third final encounter of the year. but first a football and fernando torres scored his first chelsea have trade as the blues thrashed q.p.r. six one at stamford bridge in the west london darby to boost their hopes of a top four finish in the english premier league well fresh from their champions league triumph over boss alone on the home side scored four goals in a blistering first twenty five minutes daniel sturridge opens off in just forty five seconds skipper john terry then headed in from a corner before torres rounded goalkeeper party candidate and then capitalized on the defensive mix up to make it four nil he had his third after running clear in the sixty four as minutes substitute flow millard added the six forty rule see stays late consolation rangers and now above the drop zone only on goal difference

chelsea stay six but only a point the going top know he went full through they to know when it's time to second bottom block when thanks to a goal the new trial run on the ballots and column will. call on monday all eyes are on manchester as second place city host leaders united in what could prove to be a title deciding dobby a look at the table shows if roberto mancini's side when they will leapfrog united and go top on goal difference in two games remaining but if united win then they will be. six points clear and all but change the title all city are going for their first top flight tribes since nine hundred sixty eight united program called twentieth and cheney things united other favorites. every three can happen but it's not being as they say i think that they have more chance than i was because. we should be in mind and after we should play against newcastle that would be a. go for game and after we stared united would play against swansea

sound in that for them would be too easy game. meanwhile here in russia is in the same place as burke are now setting their sights on european success after becoming russian champions for the third time in five years with a two one win in time to deny moscow the host lead off the hoff enough to see the one shot off the right but he may be strong and a penalty which is top scorer and exam the closure call of duty converted but almost immediately alexander who they only pulled one back for deny and then ten minutes after the break as any concerts in the city on off sent off however they held on until one it finished and then the celebrations began. well the fan saluted their team's achievement and as the champagne flowed coach nick jonas polity praised his team's mental toughness over a long eighteen month season italian also claims that he wanted to become one of europe's top ten size what to invest in new players over the summer to boost this

world's chances in the champions league while in the meantime the players enjoyed their moment of domestic success which will go to lunch or off of got his team mates to sign his shirt in memory of their latest title while the fun's also made sure they didn't go home empty handed. down to tennis and it was a case of third time lucky for maria sharapova as the russian second seeded overpowered top ranked victoria's in the final of the stuttgart grown prix while you're up about was in terrific form conceding just one game in the first set and she unleashed a barge of winners late in the seconds to take that six for almost an hour and a half the russian had a total of eight aces and faces one breakups that she saved drop of a secures her first title of the season avenging her two recent defeats to his aren't that in the finals of the spidey and i've been an indian wells. while in the men's game rafael nadal has changed his seventh bottle and right then so i thought the world number two at last to fellow spaniard gabby farah in two thousand and

fourteen minutes the dark side of five set points to win the opening set on a tiebreaker. before prevailing in the sea soar seconds that the seven five play becomes the first man in the open era to capture two eighteen tour events at least seven times off the ceiling his eighth straight monte carlo title last week. now i saw here in russia have relinquished their euro hockey tour title to the czech republic following a two one defeat in byrne though russia needed to win to become champions again and it did take the need to get up early in the second period but the czechs struck twice within two minutes to win it to want to finish top of the overall standings swedenborg at 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 sinking on stop time. now on to motor sports and reigning moto g.p. well champion casey stoner has taken his first ever victory at the spanish grown

grey to poll the pressure on stunningly the jorge lorenzo well after winning the season opening race in cattle earlier this month the reds are also starting from pole in head death but he was swiftly overtaken by fellow spine dani pedrosa before stoner also stepped up to give a lot in front of just two laps probably a straight and it was troubled by the renzo throughout the whole long wedge of the local favorite by less than a second and it was a sweet victory for stoner still most enough to catch lorenzo at the top of the standings four points now separate the two tries at a third hand account crunch live on and that is the busiest. as far as you know it's no one of the four it doesn't really matter you know the other tracks around the world 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 it wasn't looking good for us and you know we were different struggling a 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 you know it it worked out. 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 post-season opening victory of the philadelphia the bulls run at one hundred three points to ninety one victories over the seventy six is more of the eastern conference meeting in chicago and last season's end between rows with a top scorer recording twenty three points and nine assists it's like three pointer opened up a twenty point lead in the fourth quarter but then with about a minute left in the game he fell to the ground tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee which will rule him out for the rest of the season. but elsewhere defending champions the dallas mavericks lost by one point nine nine hundred ninety eight of the oklahoma city thunder and lanny hate up an early series lead against the new york knicks after the bron james had thirty three points the

london magic into the indiana pacers eighty one seventy seven. finally russia's middleweight boxing champion dimitri pitt also 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 will defend his w b o bells against the japanese challenger noble hero issued on choose day during the russian public holiday having unbeaten holder is the overwhelming favorite to win but he expects a tough and interesting fight robert for the man caught up in the defending champion. boxing's middleweight division this week sport of the sport where wires like light weights and points like heavy weights russia's number one in this class you meet people are on the winning w.b. you champion the style combining fearsome bunch of people work with old school intelligence just one of the numerous reasons that you need it has been really

audiences for years now watching you praise what some. times i do things to disturb my opponent in the ring to confuse him but i don't have a plan it happens spontaneously the crowd loves such things and at the same time my opponent loses confidence because he can't get me if sometimes i try some old boxing tricks like raising one hand and punching with the other professional boxing is not only a sport now it's a spectacle a performance which needs to be a great show too not just a boxing match. getting one's head right is also essential part of the game particularly adept in this regard both in and out of the ring. i prefer isolation ahead of a fight i need to be on my own with my coaches without phone calls or any type of communication i focus on building up my energy even when i'm not training i'm thinking of boxing rehearsing in my mind. i believe there should be anger inside of

you some positive anger you're able to control or not driven by it and i never get driven by a crowd or going for a knockout when i feel the opponent is still dangerous. the thirty one year old's attitude to boxing is no less special than his skills there are constantly seeking the chance to face the cream of his class that bizarre government not by love or money but by the sport itself you know. there's nothing wrong with winning titles it's great reflects your achievements and skills it builds confidence but when you get a title you realise it's not the most important thing they come and go with it although some hold on to that title is just to earn more money i never worried about earning money through boxing i just enjoy it and because of that it was a sportsman and as a person i'm about to bone he can reach an ounce of this world level i really soon

is becoming twice as good as he is now and terms of dedication and intensive training it's all up to him his potential including great physical characteristics in this still plenty of room to develop in the ring in doing still need to get off his every chance to bowl in the footsteps of course to do the only russian to be crowned undisputed boxing champ band of the world it would take a brave person to bet against him. r.t. . and that's all the sports news.

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