now the main stories we're covering for you this hour. the polls in egypt's first presidential election since hosni mubarak's three decade rule was ended thirteen names on the ballot. number mubarak officials many say they feel frustrated with the choices available. tens of thousands of students small to cross montreal two hundred day of rallies against heights and. authorities adopted new emergency doors restricting protests these have any fuel the demonstrators anger. for the eurozone members to tighten their belts. on the phosphorous on its targets

budget cuts government slashed less than half of a. team looks now at whether washington's tough stance on iran is helping result the country's nuclear issue especially to be is next. sitting down with congressman dennis kucinich who co-sponsored the bill that was introduced in congress to end america's no contact policy with iran and engage in direct talks congressman kucinich thank you very much for you to be with me as i understand the bill that you co-sponsored this kind of a response to the big sanctions bill that was actually passed by the house of representatives and part of which was to make it illegal for any american diplomat to make any contacts within a rainy and official. and that bill we see why it support among congressmen so your

up against the majority of your colleagues who favor the ban is that was that some kind of a symbolic move on your part or do you really think it would be able to sway congressional people in that direction of thought to and to lift the no contact policy with it when there's an overwhelming sentiment in the in the congress to get tougher with iran but what's the basis of it we're being told we should have any contact with them we're being told that we shouldn't be negotiating with them we're being told. to get ready for war all of that is wrong what we need to do is to have direct negotiations we need to be talking with iran and we need to stop this vainglorious notion that somehow

we can settle our differences with iran through war how many people share your views among their colleagues the law of levon ten eleven that's how many votes we have out of. four hundred thirty five members but the american people are not prepared for this country to get into another war if mr netanyahu wants to pay for a war as a consequence that's up to him i would advise against it because i think israel's security would actually be undermined by an attack on iran but the united states should not cannot and must not be dragged into a war by any other country which calls itself our friends so if you're a friend with someone to. your friends don't get you into trouble. your friends help you stay out of trouble and unfortunately we have some friends that want to get us into trouble one of the arguments that your opponents make is that why

should the u.s. take the first step and lift the no contact policy lead and do it first or do you think about that i mean iranians are not sweet talkers either the united states has taken a lead on this so we should take the lead on diplomacy if congress is sending a message to the world follow but says look we don't have to talk to you or thirty . six thirty we don't have to negotiate with you the honorable wage war on you if you don't do our do our bidding section on how you treat people that's not the way that you solve things that's not the way that you create a safer world we must use diplomacy person because then it's i think he would have great at diplomacy is about the size making concessions to solve their problems and engaging in direct talks with iran would mean making certain concessions to iran and some of your most hawkish colleagues they hate the thought of it why do you

think that's the case we have to think differently we have to but we have to believe that peace is possible what what we have is a type of thinking coming out of washington that says wars inevitable when you say wars inevitable you actually create of war a self-fulfilling prophecy so you get war we wonder why do we have war because people think in terms of war we have to stop thinking in terms of war i want to go back to the big sanctions bill that was passed by the house of representatives those sanctions are tied to so many things other than iran's nuclear program like human why alleged ties with terrorists and want to analyst told me even if iran makes all the concessions on its nuclear program still the sanctions will still be in place a situation that makes diplomacy works really impossible and confrontation more likely and i want to ask you do american policymakers and lawmakers who like

being constantly on the edge of of a confrontation on the edge of war sanctions are another form of warfare or sanctions are just a step away from shooting the mindset which exists here in washington is generally want to brinksmanship. going right to the edge pushing things the problem with that is there's always room for miscalculation especially when. part of that prevailing mentality says you can't even have contact with. the other side i mean imagine for a moment at the height of the cuban missile crisis if you key to khrushchev and john f. kennedy. were not speaking to each other it was the fact that they communicated that caused the crisis eventually to be resolved do you think it's it's eventually all about the u.s. wanting to overthrow the iranian leadership one way or another the people of iran.

have never let a foreign power determine. through invasion determine what the outcome is going to be now they do have experience with the united states having overthrown most deck and installed the shah that set the stage for a very troubled period in dealing with iran the people of iran are very concerned when their nuclear scientists are sas unaided how does that happen who's doing it is this a decision is being made in high ranks of government. so we should forget about trying to conquer other countries that's an old model that's old thinking from hundreds of years ago. we tried that in iraq it did not work we tried it in afghanistan it did not work we keep trying it we tried

it in libya it does not work there people want us to try it in syria it will not work and it's not going to work in iran and the sooner that we understand that the better it is because then we look at what are our options what's interesting according to polls the majority of americans seven out of ten americans said yes to diplomacy with iran to the lawmakers hear their voices every member of congress has improved hearing when we get close to an election so. if we're far away from an election it sometimes becomes more difficult to hear. and there are other voices there are the voices of other interest groups of the voices of.

arms merchants of war contractors people who just make money off a war i don't care where the war is or who it hurts i just want to make money and if they can push the u.s. and spawning another war don't do it and members of congress have to be wise as to when they're being played by interest groups who may want them to vote in one way but it would be a way that would be adverse to the interests of of the american people and what do you think about president obama's handling of the situation he seems to be catering to warmongers and advocates of diplomacy at the same time i mean it's kind of hard to to figure out where is where is he standing in your opinion i think you've characterized it accurately. the president and sent out mixed messages now that might be a strategy. but i would prefer to see the president of united states. take a leadership and say we're not going to another war and we're going to use diplomacy i would i would hope that our president would take that tack instead of

occasionally throwing a nod to the hawks who are looking for any hint of . or inflection that could start to stir up the forces of war i wanted to ask you about words political solution and i was watching one of the news channels and the anchor was discussing with the reporter statement made by the white house press secretary who said there needs to be a political solution you know ghana sent a political solution with the with the taliban and all that and they were astonished by the words political solution they were like political solution what and i want to ask you why are the words political solutions so unpopular in america anyone who's ever tried to learn a new language knows that when you're trying to learn a new language it sometimes takes a while to get familiar with the with the resonance of it with the structures of

thought that go behind it so when we talk about a political solution is that a new language that's a new language absolutely when we talk about. coming to a conclusion based on diplomacy that's in the language you're a lawmaker could you tell me how just how trigger happy people in congress are when it comes to war but you know i've seen this phenomenon. where most members of congress are relatively placid peace loving people but something happens when we're on the threshold of conflict and i saw this happen when the u.s. government made a decision to bomb serbia. people who are placid reasonable suddenly war fever moves. and war fever has a way of. infecting people thinking it's like

a virus let's talk a little bit about syria what's the general mood in congress guys to syria is it paul intervention is it anti well i think it's mixed there are members of congress particularly the senate who have been calling for intervention going intervention on whose behalf the more you look at it there are so many different groups that are playing in syria right now the u.s. intervention could bring about a triumph for islamic fundamentalism to listen to the latest reports just like. you saw the ok to flag flying over bengazi when. the government. of libya had fallen so just because you intervene doesn't mean you're going to get the results that you want actually there's almost ironclad rule that intervention will get the opposite results that you want thank you very much thank you.

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says. voters head to the polls in egypt's first presidential election since hosni mubarak's three decade rule was ended thirteen names on the ballot including islamists and a number of barack officials who many say they feel frustrated with the choice is the political. tens of thousands of students march across montreal to mark a hundred day of rallies against hikes in tuition fees authorities adopted new emergency laws restricting protests these are the future demonstrators and. it's going to lynn tells of for the eurozone members to tighten their belts those dirty capital is under fire for slipping up on its own targets for budget cuts government slashed less than half of eleven billion euros last year. our next story to

sports news with entry. hello there welcome to the sports and these are the headlines studying up on boulder secure another season in the russian premier league after coming through the relegation pile. glad to be back russia midfielder mout is model for turn to the russian squad after an eight year absence the team prepare for friday's friendly with your equine. reality great courage josie marino pens a new deal in the byrne about to end speculation about his speech. but first polgar will remain in the russian prime illegal after winning their relegation playoffs folder holding out for neil neil drop in their second leg against nizhny novgorod from the all national league enough to win the tie two one and i get to secure a second successive season in the top flight rostov make sure they will be there to

grow man out of mobs a goal giving them a four nil aggregate victory over she will stay in russia's second tier for a fourth year in a row. now is model of his training with the russian team for the first time in eight years he was included in take out because you are a twenty twelve squad after impressing for sporting lisbon and could feature in a friendly against uruguay on friday from the russian camp is richard paul flicked . it's not surprising manner to smile of the team coach looking a little weary the twenty nine year old played in the portuguese cup final for his side sporting lisbon on sunday evening before facing a race against time in order to get to the russian capital to meet dick uppercuts deadline of meeting up with the squad the following day. but the arrival of maurice as my love to complicate now has a full squad of twenty five to choose from however has no guarantee that the twenty nine year old despite having a fine season for sporting lisbon who helped reach the semifinals be it all played

well make the starting line up as alonzo if there's a current incumbent nevertheless head coach uppercut says but it's my love has settled been really well to the squad. to quality to a player who works very hard and he's a really team player does what he showed today i mean has been a part of russians from quite a long time and has been settling in i mean because of communism no one really younger players manuel. took together to carry me here and does what he did without knowing from sell for because quince so he sells enough that he wants a blow for the national team and. a close meanwhile there are in twenty four players on the pitch once again as roman shishkin was forced to miss training with a stomach problem over had become hopes it isn't serious and won't add to his defensive problems it's a problem with his stomach so but hopefully that will not take dead long in a long time i'm told i don't know pictures of my fave an ego i can fade me looking

relaxed mood but there's a heated battle on the pitch going on between been to see who will be russia's number one i can fear has been russia's regular number one for years however the serious kind of stopper is only just returned to first team action after eight months out with injury his replacement bitches love my fave has been fantastic form does it need this season particularly in the champions league come over the thirty four. isn't looking too far into the future you know there was still i'm not here to talk up my chances of being russians first choice keeper we have a head coach who leaked the decision on who started the urals it's the players responsibility on especially for us goalkeepers to be ready to come ons on any moment all over the dutchman was tight lipped about who will stop between the posts can be euros go give you will see against. your what. not sure play the first friendly against one of the world's top since your are

going on friday where the players will be given a good chance to impress and for current to win a seat on the plane to poland for the euro two thousand and twelve finals richard briefly jancee moscow. where you are going to have arrived in the russian capital for friday's friendly a strong side to has been selected into the i guess four and never post luis suarez expected to lead the south american attack the thing hasn't played much together this year a one one draw with rumania only acting and they're looking forward to another ninety minutes. well middle of a national it's an important game after so many months or so of not getting together and it's nice to be here with a grated bursar to play against individually we know each other well we have played a lot against each other in a fight championships we know that there are a strong team play well and have good quality players well there are only a couple of weeks to go before the start of the european championships that you wait for officials expect russians to snap up some of the most expensive tickets at

the last minute football's european governing body is in moscow to promote various v.i.p. packages with prices touching two thousand euros but despite criticism that tickets for the tournament are too expensive the way for believe many russians will go for the high end of the market. shows there was second best selling market and as you may know maybe the russian market may be more likely to buy last minute than the english or the french they are also more likely to find their way for a new place were to sleep in ukraine because of the all the is trickle connections so that's why we we are doing basically i would last promotion operation in russia. now the football news rearm hundred carriage shows in rio has signed a two year contract extension which will keep him at the club until twenty sixteen the forty nine year old took up the reins in twenty ten and last month celebrated serial to their first domestic title in four years adding that trophy to their copy

del rey success which he won in his first season in charge real madrid star christiana ranallo was praised his coach saying is up there with manchester united sir alex ferguson who played under before moving to the byrne about three seasons ago. they are both of the same chords as in world. it was like a second when and where i've been much so we saw so many things you know to go on in my in my career. it was amazing i cannot wish more now from them but for me it was. very nice things to improve myself all the time to keep learning so in the beginning it was. his grit. one of the first signings that chelsea didier drogba is set to leave the newly crowned european champions this summer the thirty four year old ivory coast star

will become a free agent when his contract with the blues expires next month in totally scored one hundred fifty four hundred fifty seven goals during his eight year spell at the club and that is the equaliser i am winning penalty against by nick in the champions league final last weekend. to the n.b.a. now and the miami heat are just a win away from the western conference finals they beat the indiana pacers one hundred fifteen eighty three the series three over half the points from miami coming from abroad james and dwyane wade while the pacers starman danny granger limped off with a bad ankle in the second half miami they aren't going to dwell on their latest victory. you know it's good when i don't think the score is indicative of anything really. and this is our challenge right now is to leave it behind us a lot of good things tonight but you know we have to focus on the next one. now with the twenty twelve london games starting in just under nine weeks time four

time olympic swimming champion alexander pope of will be among the russian representatives taking part in the limpet torch relay which is underway across the u.k. the forty year old is one of eight thousand people from all over the world who will have the honor of running three hundred meters with the torch which has eight thousand homes and it's designed to represent each mile and each runner on its journey and as well as famous sportsmen and women tolstoy the great grandson of russian might alleviate tolstoy will also be taking part along with a very proud papa. it's not just for me it's a rhetorical it's a non it's a privilege. to be part of it to be one of the greats i was a. torch bearers to be part of it when it became a truly. elsewhere the fastest man on earth the same boat has reiterated his plans to set an unlikely mark of nine point four seconds in the hundred meters out those

london olympics the twenty five year old world record holder is currently preparing for the golden spike meeting in the czech city of that are on friday the jamaican is using this event among other things with climate ties to european weather and he says he's prepared for anything that could interfere with his title defense in one hundred and two hundred meters in the british capital. much much more experience i know what it takes. i've been through dollar must say. i do work from injury to be the best. everything i think for about experience i think i'm ready for anything. sharp controlled me injury control and different things. and lastly ferrari belief formula one's new peretti tides will have a big say on the outcome of this weekend's monaco grand prix the tires are being used for the first time this season by all the teams but because they are less jura bore than in the past teams are having to pit stop more and that has made races

less predictable one of those tight winding circuit means there are fewer places to overtake and ferrari believe pit stops could be the difference between winning and losing. it offers different engineering challenges and you need to set the car up quite differently for monaco you know in monaco you don't really attack all the corner entries as hard as you would have a normal course those barriers barriers at the exit so when you set the carpet a little bit differently but. again trying to get the tires to work and trying to get the right car balance is difficult so i think all circuits often offer a good challenge and that is all the sport for now i like to. use that so much as i would like. the job it is pretty big

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