two thirty pm in moscow these are your r.t. you have live reports of violence in egypt as people vote for a new leader with reports of police officers been shot dead outside a cairo polling station it's egypt's first presidential vote since hosni mubarak's three decade roubles and. tens of thousands of students marching across montreal marking a hundred day of rallies against hikes intuition fees. and as berlin tells fellow euro zone members to tighten their belts the austerity capital under fire for slipping up on its own targets for budget cuts. and next r.t. looks at whether washington's tough stance on iran is helping resolve the country's nuclear issue the interview next.

we're 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 you 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. that bail was seized wide support among congressmen so you're up against the majority of your colleagues who favor the band is that was that some kind of a symbolic move on your part or do you really think you would be able to sway congressional people in that direction of thought to and to lift the no contact

policy with it when it was an overwhelming sentiment in in the congress to get tougher with iran but what's the basis of it when we're being told we should have any contact with them we're being told that we should be negotiating with them we're being told. 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 your colleagues and a lot of eleven ten eleven that's how many votes we added on foreign 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 that's up to him i would advise against it because i think israel's security 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 if you're a friend with someone 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 that says look we don't have to talk to you. we don't have to negotiate with you the honorable when we 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 same actions will still be in place a situation that makes diplomacy possible 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 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 auld 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. the voices of other interest groups of the voices of. arms merchants of war contractors people who just make money off a war they 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 they'll 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's 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. 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 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 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 like a virus let's talk a little bit about syria what's the general mood in congress to syria is it poorly intervention is it anti oh i think it's mixed there are members of congress particularly the senate who have been calling for intervention 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 report just like. you saw the ok to flag flying over britain godsey 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. here the reindeer isn't everything for the herders. and when it suffers

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reports of violence in egypt as people vote for a new leader with reports of a police officer being shot outside of cairo polling station it's egypt's first presidential election since hosni mubarak's three decade rule was ended. tens of thousands of students marched across montreal marking one hundredth day of rallies against intuition feeds. and as berlin tells fellow eurozone members to tighten their belts the austerity capital under fire for slipping up on its own targets for budget cuts. he was in fifteen minutes but sports up next with kate stay with us here on r.t. . hello

welcome to latest sports news this wednesday afternoon and here are the top stories strike a light spain's leading goalscorer davia loses his race against time to recover from a broken leg and defend his sight and help decide defend the european crowd in next month's championship. while glad to be back in russia midfield that matches model returns to the russian squad after an eight year absence as the team prepares for friday's friendly with uruguay in moscow. and staying on the rail madrid coach joe samaria and speculation about his future as a pens a new deal to stay at the bernabeu until twenty sixteen. but first spain will have to defend their european crown without top striker david beer after the barcelona star failed to recover in time for a broken leg next month's tournament in poland and ukraine the thirty year old was awarded the golden boot after netting four goals in austria and switzerland four years ago but he fractured two children in december and says he's still not fit to

play he is also spain's all time top scorer with fifty one goals in eighty two games so it's a massive blow for a coach with them to their boss that is due to name his final squad on sunday with better independent kallis also a dance. in the meantime sporting lisbon midfielder matt out as my life has joined the russian squad for the first time in eight years after impressing coach take out the guard as the twenty nine year old could feature in friday's first euro twenty twelve warm up against world cup semifinals euro going here in moscow which is of course the reports. of brain injury managers more let's get the team coach looking at least. the twenty nine year old played in the pages cup final three shine sporting lisbon on sunday evening before facing a race against time in order to get to the russian capital to be decried the crunch deadline meeting that it was scared of feeling. but the arrival of martha's my love to count the cat 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 of it all played well made the starting line up. of his current incumbent nevertheless head coach uppercut says but it's my love his sense of being really well to the squad. the quality to the player he works very hard and he's a really team player does what he showed today i mean has been part of the russians for for quite a long time has been settling in i mean because he probably doesn't know the younger players from well. to do. and does what he did without knowing for myself the consequence so he says enough that he wants a blow for the national team and that's a plus meanwhile there are in twenty four players on the pitch once again as roman shishkin was forced to miss training with a stomach problem but over had the kind of hopes it isn't serious and won't add to his defensive problems. stomach so but hopefully that will not

dead long in a long time until i don't know to just have my fave an ego i can fade me looking relaxed mood to visit a heated battle on the pitch going on between going to see who will be russia's number one i can fear has been russia's regular number one for years and whether the serious kind of scope is only just returned to first team action after eight months sample of injury his replacement backslap my fave has been fantastic and has a neat this season particularly in the champions league come over the thirty four year old isn't looking too far into the future with the other we still haven't we're not here to talk up my chances of the russian's first choice keep perfect answer we have a head coach who leaked a decision on who started the orioles but it's the players' responsibility and especially for us goalkeepers to be ready to come ons on any moment however the dutchman was tight lipped about who will start between the posts can be euros or one goalkeeper you will see against. the one. sure play the

first friendly against going to be watched it's your a game friday but the players will be given a good chance to impress and to catch you're going to sit on the plane to poland for the euro two thousand and twelve finals but you've been painfully jonty. well it may only be a friendly but you're going to field a strong squad at a lot of stadium in the east of moscow the twenty ten world cup semifinalists held an open training session in the russian capital into milan's diego for law and liverpool's luis suarez expected to meet the south american sides attack however the team doesn't play together much they share a one one draw with romania was the only honest thing so that looking forward to another ninety minutes on the pitch. i mean doing the same as you're going to know what it's an important game after so many months or so of not getting together and it's nice to be here with a greater diversity to play against you individually we know each other well we have played our water against each other you know if i championships we know that

they are a strong team play well and we have all of the players and i were going on in the meantime even though officially tickets for the upcoming year as have already sold out russians are being offered the chance to snap up v.o.i.p. packages vayu asia but at a price at a press conference in moscow a european football's governing body unveiled exclusive a i can be packages for various games this summer prices range from one thousand to just under two thousand euros per package he wages also comes amid reports that many tickets have still not been sold and ongoing criticism of increasingly over inflated prices but a spokesman for the way back has defended its new product to corporate clients. we are speaking about an extremely tiny portion of the overall ticket available for yachts and twelve we are talking about less than three percent of the total to get so the vast majority of tickets are available at a very cheap and affordable price because we had a category three to get starting around thirty euros for the ukrainian public and

it's been extremely successful. now another football news real madrid coach josie marino has signed a two year contract extension which will keep him at the club until twenty sixteen forty nine year olds took up the reins in two thousand and ten and last month celebrated steering way out of their first domestic title in four years adding that tracy to their copper del ray success he won his first season in charge and they all start christiane over now though has praised his coach saying he's on a level with manchester united sir alex ferguson and he played on that before moving to the byrne about three seasons ago. or maybe they are both the same coaches in the world. fergus it was like a second father when where i've been much so we did eighteen years old so i did too many things and you know to carry on in my in my career with it was amazing i cannot wish more nothing than that for me it was it was

a very nice things you know to improve myself all the time to keep learning so in the beginning it was. morning it's great. when in the meantime one of marine year's first signing is that chelsea is set to leave the newly crowned european champions this summer as are the four year old ivory coast star will become a free agent when his contract with the blues expires next month in total he scored one hundred fifty seven goals during his eight year spell at the club including the equaliser and winning penalty against my in munich last saturday's champions league final. basketball and in the n.b.a. the miami heat on just one win away from reaching the western conference finals they beat the indiana pacers one hundred eight point three eighty three to leave the series three to the point coming from the bron james and dwyane wade while the pacers star man danny granger limped off with an ankle injury early in the second half however miami aren't going to dwell on the 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 at the twenty twelve london games starting in just under nine weeks time four time olympic swimming champion alexander popof will be among the russian representatives taking part in the long and then pick the torch relay which is on the way across the u.k. the forty year old is one of eight thousand people from all over the world will have the honor of running a three hundred meters with the torch which has eight thousand holes in its design to represent each mile and each run out on its journey and as well as famous sportsmen and women the dear tolstoy the great grandson of russian writer leo tolstoy also be taking part along with a very proud of. you. it's not just for me

it's for every torchbearer it's unknown it's a privilege and its prestige to be a part of it to be one of the i was a. torch bearers to be part of it of india which really. finally to formula one and ferrari believe perelli is tires 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 bots because they are less general than in the past the teams are having to make more pit stops and that has made the racing less predictable monaco's tight winding circuit means there are few 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 from a car in monaco you don't really attack all the corner entries as hard as you would have a normal barrier around barriers at the exit so when you set a carpet little bit differently but. you're challenged again trying to get the

tires to work and trying to get the right car balance is never equally as difficult so i think all circuits off are off to a good challenge and that's all sports new see you again in just under two hours.

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