you know because if you get everything you need. for the. technology innovation is development from around russia. they are exactly the russian capital top stories. from the weekly rusher accuses syrian rebels of fighting. the opposition is intercepted by this comes as the un is expanding its observer mission to syria in an attempt. of the french presidential election to socialist candidate.

twenty people are still being treated in hospital. after a series of bombs exploded there on friday leaving thirty injured the suspect in. the country prepares to host the. main suspect a russian m.p. involved in the murder of the former security officer. huge tension between the kremlin and downing street. so top stories this week. fifty minutes from now in the meantime israel is its war rhetoric against iran despite no definite proof that iran is building a nuclear weapon so coming up next we'll ask a former u.s. . both israel and america could go when it comes to dealing with iran.

we're sitting down with douglas macgregor have retired 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 tropical 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 corpse 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 is based really on the 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 norma's 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 these leadership see this summer as that window of opportunity that they don't want to miss for two reasons one iran has very few friends in the wage and syria its closest ally is a mess right now and second presidential elections coming up in the u.s. some say israel is going to use their leverage over president obama and it's going to be very hard for him to say no what do you think about that window of opportunity 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 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 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 can 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 or 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 well we shouldn't 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 the fact some say even if you were 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 won't have to build them they'll get them people will provide those to them they will have more help than they know what to do with any iran will grow more hostile and more bitter and more angry and more dangerous than it has ever been i want to ask you about syria the obama administration has kind of ruled out a military intervention saying it's too complicated what in your opinion. keeps the u.s. from attacking syria there are several things first of all there is a quiet recognition behind closed doors that if assad is removed however much

people do not like 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 but twenty two 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 with 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 their words it's fatally stricken with this theocratic disease of religious fanaticism i don't i think it will change and i think if we can back away from this iran will evolve differently over the next ten years and we don't have to have this hostile relationship or confrontation that would be i mean are you that's one of my organ 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. join me on a journey to the heart of the problem to a place is hidden from the tourists you're going to meet some real credible insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. . you.

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and free blog. free media. from the weekly. syrian rebels of. opposition. this comes as the un is expanding its observer mission to syria in an attempt to oversee. immigration. of the french presidential election. the. votes up for grabs in the. hospitals in the ukrainian city of the. series of. the suspected

terrorists. say the u.k. . security office. alexander litvinenko in london six years ago people only a murder caused huge tension between the kremlin and the street. i'll be back with more on those stories in full for you in less than 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 trick is in the form chelsea's trash q.p.r. six one in the west london darby paul taught them to be quite going to go 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 how 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 while 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 throw me out of 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 behind top know who went with a two no win at home to second bottom block went to a gold in the trial run on the ballots and col will. call on monday all eyes are on one just as second place city host leaders united in what did 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 at all but change the title all city are going for their first top flight trial since nine hundred sixty eight united program called twentieth cheney thinks united states. every three can happen but it's not being over there saying i think that they have more chance than i was because. we should be mined and after we should play against newcastle that

would be to go for game and after would be instead united would play against swansea sound in that for them would be too easy getting. meanwhile here in russia as in it's in petersburg 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 hosts the lead off the hof enough to see the one shot off by the mere bistro and a penalty which top scorer alexander courage of call of duty converted but almost immediately alexander who they only pulled one back for the nominee and then ten minutes after the break as any council does it all 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 on a spell that he raised his team's mental toughness over

a long eighteen month season italian also claim to meet wanted to become one of europe's top ten size what to invest in new players over the summer to boost the squad chances in the champions league but in the meantime the players enjoyed their moment of domestic success which although the launch iraq of got his team mates to sign his shirt in memory of their latest title while the phones 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 seed overpowered top ranked victoria azarenka in the final of the stuttgart grown prix while you're up with that was in terrific form conceding just one game in the first set and she unleashed a barge of winners belatedly seconds to take that six for almost an hour and a half the russian hit a total of eight aces and faced his one breakups which he 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 this body 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 outlasted 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 second set to seventy five the king of play becomes the first man in the open era to capture to 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 bern though russia needed to win to become champions again and did take they 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 while swedenborg at the wooden spoon following a four one defeat by reigning world champion spinner and games on the last major tournament ahead of next month's world championships which will be jointly held

sinky don't stop time. now into motor sports and reigning moto g.p. world champion casey stoner has taken his first ever victory at the spanish grown grey to pole the pressure on standings leader 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 obvious straight and was troubled by the run so throughout the whole long ledge like the favorite by less than the second and it was a sweet victory for stoner the still most enough to catch lorenzo at the top of the standings four points now separate the two tries that third head count crunch and put it the busiest. as far as you know no one had before 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 yesterday 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 i'm forty one that was when we we took a gamble for the race and you know it to be 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 postseason opening victory over philadelphia the bulls run at one hundred three points to ninety one victors over the seventy six is game one of the eastern conference meeting in chicago and last season and beat the rose was their top scorer recording twenty three points and nine assists this late 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 my only hate auburn early series lead against the new york knicks off to le bron james to thirty two points the london magic to beat the indiana pacers eighty one seventy seven. finally russia's middleweight boxing champion the need to keep it all 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 belt against 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 fatherly on top of the defending champion. boxing's middleweight division the sweet sport of the sport well why there is move like light weights and points like heavy weights russia's number one in this class is media player on the winning w bill chandler is style combining fearsome

punching power with old school intelligence just one of the numerous reasons the general played it has been thrilling audiences for years now. sometimes i do things to disturb my opponent in the ring to confuse him with 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 sometimes i try small 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. mentality getting one's head right is also essential part of the game particularly adept in this regard both in and out of the ring and. 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 but i believe there should be anger inside of you some positive anger you're able to control i'm not driven by it and i never get driven by a crowd are 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 that 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 although some hold on to that titles just to earn more money i never worried about earning money

through boxing i just enjoy it and because of that it will grow as a sportsman and as a person. 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 he was going to huge 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 box and jan tenth of the world it would take a brave person to bet against him. r.t. . and that's all the sports news.