four thirty am in moscow these are your r.t. headlines lebanon seizes an arms shipment apparently bound for opposition forces in syria as russia accuses broadwell's with trying to destroy you and brokered by. nicolas sarkozy looks to the far right for support after losing the further threw out of the french presidential election to socialist candidate francoise hollande later less than a week of campaigning left the final battle. police in ukraine released a photo fit image of the men they believe are responsible for multiple bombings in

on friday that left thirty injured officers have reopened an investigation into a similar bombing in the city last year believing the attacks could be linked. lie detector experts from the u.k. say the country's police have the wrong suspect in the killing of former f.s.b. agent alexander litvinenko in london six years ago. up next israel ratcheted up rhetoric against iran despite having little definitive proof of tehran building a nuclear weapon up next we speak with a former u.s. army colonel about how both israel and the u.s. 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 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 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 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 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 remco the saudi arabian oil corporation but in that short period of time or oil skyrocketed on the market up beyond one hundred fifteen dollars a barrel but the point is just the rumor of action was enough to send the oil through the roof so we had a foretaste there of the dramatic economic consequences for the world if we move ahead and support israel in its desire to strike iran that's why i don't think

president obama is remotely interested so they don't think that the israeli leadership sees this as a window of opportunity of the they may but look don't count out the israeli population let's not assume that everyone in israel is anxious to see iran destroyed i think that's misleading there's more division of opinion in israel than we think so again how long can mr netanyahu and mr barak play this game of the century trying to bully president obama and push him into an action that he would otherwise choose not to take did ministration is basically saying all they need is 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 could always say well we said capability we don't see it yet so is the purpose of that to to keep the use way at least in this in vagueness will president obama's 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 to trump card is subversion. the ability to subvert so the retaliation would be in the form of terrorism it would be in the form of what i would call asymmetric attacks in other words high payoff low investment in other words use what you can 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 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. been to these rallies can claim otherwise and insist otherwise and paint this picture of enormous danger represented to israel but the truth is no one buys that my view has always been that if you do this if israel does this that iran will very definitely have nuclear weapons they will have to

build them they'll get them people will provide those to them they will have more help than they know what to do with any iran will grow more hostile and more bitter and more angry and more dangerous than it has ever been i want to ask you about syria give obama administration has kind of ruled out the 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 him will be a radical islamist sunni muslim government. hostile to israel hostile to the west hostile to shia islam in other words. not a good development from the standpoint of 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 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 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.

to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations that we are. and the shadow is approaching up on our shoulder for. the early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the forms of the empire that the united states is trying to do that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around. we don't have power bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in our bases are fine are the

noises our noise of those ball to us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people a day since the end of world war two the spaces i've been. working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions they have thing else is to get everything you needed. to use it sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give

a darn about anything turns mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans in britain which is why you should care only on the dot com. latest news and week in review lebannon seizes an army shipment apparently bound for opposition forces in syria as russia uses rebels of trying to destroy the u.n. brokered peace plan. nicolas sarkozy looks to the far right first support after losing the friend after losing the first round of the french presidential election to socialist candidate francois hollande less than a week of campaigning left till the final ballot. police in ukraine released photo images of men they think are responsible for multiple bombings in. friday that left thirty injured officers of rio put an investigation into a similar bombing in the city last year believing the attacks could be linked.

lie detector experts from the u.k. say the country's police have the wrong suspect in the killing both former f.s.b. agent alexander litvinenko in london six years ago. the lovely kate up next with all the latest sports news stay with us here on r.t. . hello welcome to the sports and these other top stories. six of the best fernando torres scores a hot trickers in calling chelsea's trash q.p.r. six one in 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 come to play me a second straight russian premier league title. but 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 well fresh from their champions league triumph over barcelona 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 ran to 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 with a to know when it's time to second bottom block went to a goalie neutral and rough on the balance and calm off. call on monday all eyes

were on mine just 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 at all but change the title all city are going for their first top flight tried since nine hundred sixty eight united program called twentieth and cheney things united other favorites. everything it can happen but it's not been a as they say i think that. more chance than i was because. we should be mine and after we should play you guys know. that would be a. terrific game and after we stared united would play against chauncey s. and in that for them would be too easy game. 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 and that this is the one shot off of the right but he may be strong and a penalty which top scorer alexander clergy call converted but almost immediately alexander who they are only pulled one back for the nominee and then ten minutes after the break as any concert 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 on a split team praised 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 this world 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 seed overpowered top ranked victoria azarenka in the final of the stuttgart grown prix while shop of that 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 hit a total of eight aces and faced his one breakups which 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 this body and i've been an indian wells. while in the men's game rafael nadal has changed his seventh model and right and so i thought the world number two at last it 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 c. source seconds that the seventy five king of play becomes the first man in the open

era to capture to eighty two 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 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 while swedenborg at the wooden spoon following a four one defeat by reigning world champions finland the czech 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 my g.p. world champion casey stoner has taken his first ever victory at the spanish grown pray to poll 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 runs i threw out my own long range the local favorite by less than a second and it was a sweet victory for stoner the still most enough to catch lorenzo at the top of the standings points now separate the two guys that came third hand account crunch and i had the busiest. as far as you know no one had before it doesn't really matter you know it is the tracks run toward 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 if it were. they are. 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 bowls run at one hundred three points to ninety one victors over the seventy six is again one 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 telling 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 lammy hate up an early series lead against the new york knicks after the bron james hit thirty two point one and i magic into the indiana pacers eighty one seventy seven. finally russia's middleweight boxing champion dmitri pitt also says he's prepared for everything his next opponent has destroyed 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 cheers day during the russian public holiday having unbeaten holder is the overwhelming favorite to win but he expects a tough and interesting fight well that's what i am caught up with the defending champion. boxing's middleweight vision this week sport of this board where water is like light weights and points like heavy weights russia is number one in this class you need to put all the winning w.b. you champion the style combining pierston bungee ball work with old school indulgence just one of the numerous reasons that you need it has been truly audiences for years now wouldn't it be. sometimes 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 but 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 titles 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. mr 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 they're

still plenty of room to develop in the ring in doing so need to get over 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 by sea. wealthy british style. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in cars a report on. world.

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