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on t.v. we'll be back in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime we discuss the tactics being used against another so-called rogue state iran in the exclusive interview with the israeli deputy prime minister. every with me i have dan meridor deputy israeli prime minister and minister of intelligence and atomic energy so thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. to be with you the million dollar question is israel preparing for war with you when the one thing we should not speak on a war with iran i don't think that war is something one discusses in good families in public i think it's wrong hearing an issue is the most important issue we're dealing with the nuclearization of iran becomes the most important issue of international politics we are. trying as much as we can with the rest of the world

i would say to stop iran from becoming nuclear and yet today has been a lot of war with craig for much of israel's political leadership but on the other hand people like yourself have come on record and said that you will not support a war with iran so obvious see disagreement in the israeli political when the issue of iran is of great importance i think that. if there is determination and resolve and persistence in the world that is interesting here we feel a very broad coalition unprecedented abroad all the arab world but syria. most of the west i believe other countries were russia was on it two years ago in the u.n. security council we think you have enough leverage all of us together to condition very dangerous behavior and higher price with every month that passes if you don't stop this. attempt to get nuclear but none of the rounds critics including israel have given hard facts that prove that iran's intention is to build

a nuclear weapon or that it iran is in a way near building a nuclear weapon so why is this so much fear and concern first of all that iran wants to have a nuclear weapons we have no doubt i think that the international atomic energy agency in. published a report last november third of the head a weapons group the describe the weapons to approach worked why do we take it seriously they really do ship. them in a thorough paly again and again is a should not exist it should be removed as a cancer tumor in the middle east but you didn't mess that ahmed in it added not saying that iran would wipe israel off the map. will approve israel the concert is the metaphor but not a different conference he might not have said these words but to converse in their rhetoric there are a lot of statements but all of them in the leadership that is there should not exist in a two thousand and eight interview at medinah jack was asked that if the palestinian

leaders agreed to accept a two state solution could he ran live with that and his answer was that if they agree to that well then they will respect that decision does that not suggest that there is a tiny opening for dialogue or some kind of work between as well any when i hear him again and again i heard him two or three weeks ago. here in my office twenty or thirty statements a piece of others saying you know. that is not legitimate it should not exist it is on the verge of collapse anyway now what is it if not direct threat against our existence iran has not attacked anyone in recent history why would it attack israel if israel did not attack you when iran. has not attacked israel directly iran is supplying weapons of the most advanced kind that they have to all our enemies be syria be visible love be from us again and again iran is

frightening the saudi arabian government why is that if they never take anybody. why is the arab world in such turmoil and such a fear of a new reign in the me nation israel is thought to have several hundred nuclear weapons. is this not a question of double standards why should israel be allowed to have it whereas a bank can't we never said we have nuclear weapons we never said we hadn't we don't react to this the effect but isn't it interesting that all the arab countries who may think that we have prince although i never confirm or deny never said because these are his it will have it. but when they hear iran is going to get it to say if you don't get it we get it isn't that a sign it ought to prove the real danger for the stability and peace in this region for these regimes is iran not israel if there was a strike what would it look like are we talking about some kind of israeli aerial strike or what is will consider sending in ground forces or not speak of military

option at all not in general not in specific terms don't think it's right i think it's not helping us it may help the rain is not as i don't speak of it i'm very hopeful the functions. will work once sanctions just make you a new nationalist close rank and support their government more thoroughly well is there another way to do this if you drop in from the you don't speak of the french and the not to be working what is the over option iran was half or all the security council not to enrich and the golan rushing along with the united states is building a missile defense shield in the persian gulf what would be the purpose of this is israel had to attack you when they want speak of an attack on iran israel and i'm not a spokesman for the american. the american defense establishment the american president but it's interesting that the americans and the arab countries are in full

agreement about the development in iran and that it needs to be stopped is israel preparing for any rain attack or some kind of way in retaliation if needs to defend itself is a never asked anybody to defend it is a living in area in which there were many enemies i think that we feel very positive trend of arab countries leaving the camp of. of denial in the geisha and and coming to the good guys came by presidents about of egypt signing peace with us king calls in the jordan saying before the people who. became brewers after them kept the agreement we wish and hope it would be kept longer there have been comments by leading israeli figures that the israeli population have not been told the full consequences of what an attack on iran would mean do you agree with us. don't think i should speak on israeli attack on iran i think this is something

israeli should not speak oh i'm sorry that some of my colleagues did speak of it or hinted to it i think it's a mistake and i from day one said don't speak of it it's far from thing we'll speak for i think the clear the clarity of the object is very poor the objective simple iran should not be there should stop the enrichment which stops the building of weapons mr that everything go to the and how we do it how we get it we need to be very. balanced and strong and sophisticated when i think we thought only israel it's all those countries we just did a report on how the israeli public is not ready for an attack by event that there aren't any kind of shelters or awareness to get gas masks which begs the question why is the israeli public not being prepared for an attack if there is so much was trick coming from the government if the countries of the world who are interested in stopping iran from becoming nuclear power is persistent as you are in asking me

questions about this wolf when no the is there a clandestine war. is. there are things that are done against syria the nuclear capabilities by all players. from the west and other countries probably is on the table for it under the table and things are going on not everything should be made public but i think that this is a serious better it's a very serious matter and i think it should be taken care of very seriously and this includes all sorts of actions and i don't speak of war here the united states has said it's against of what event if this remains a situation where this will go it alone we've been used sometimes to stand alone and we stood alone when other countries who had to help us a problem type of didn't help us this were the case nine hundred sixty seven when we were attacked and we have guarantees that nobody seemed to find the time and we

had to fight for our own lives and we did it successfully we do it full time and time but not our ideal or a deal is many countries acting for the same goal and we as part of a big coalition. they would not fight for us not surely but if they have the same interests as we have the saudis of the americans or the french or the germans or the russians as it were two years ago if we have a broad coalition it's much better than to be on our own so of course america is an important player in this world as everybody knows and if america says and the president president obama says iran should not be nuclear will not tolerate a nuclear iran will not compete in the play around who prevent iran from becoming the it's very important if we look at syria are developments there good or bad for israel first of all they're very bad for syria. although syria is an enemy they

don't like us at all but we're neighbors and we all are human beings and what one sees on the screen and syria is horrendous it's not our business to tell the syrians who should rule has a different perspective on the one that you just spoke of iran syria is the only arab country. and the access that was built. between iran syria and hizbollah unholy alliance should i call it this is a very bad axis very dangerous axis. against start against all the arab countries. in that respect this alliance between syria and iran is broken this is good for peace so bad for peace except for more fundamentalist regime comes to power in syria. i don't know who comes next we have no influence on that. in a productive way if we support somebody maybe it was detrimental because the best thing for somebody you would be to we fight the jews so we're not taking part in

that what about israeli egyptian relations particularly in light of the terminations of the gas deal to the egyptian israeli peace treaty that has been fined thirty two years ago in the thirty three years ago in seventy nine was the most important dramatic change in middle east history it changed at least from a very warlike zone to a much more stable and peaceful area so whoever is in power in egypt after next presidential election we very much hope for the peace treaty is kept i think it's not only our interest i think it as well it is the egyptian interests and i think this is one of the most important goals that we have and we wish for the egyptians to have more free regime in better economic situation and keep the agreement with dan meridor thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. thank you very much. right.

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hello welcome to the wednesday nights for round up on day four of the french open the headlines talk about dog the which continues his quest for a maiden french open title the latter captured in straight sets to get through two rounds for a. while the second time i rushed or i held to a goal is told by lithuania in the last second of three warm up matches the upcoming european championships. i was dreaming machine alexander ovechkin and his fashion teammate florence that i saw take the open top bus parade in central moscow . at first of the tennis in paris and world number one night backdrop of it has become the first man to reach the third round as he continues his quest for a maiden french open title the top ranked serbian was broken once by the blodgett calf church of slovenia but otherwise was hardly troubled on route to a six love six four six four win talk of it she is searching for his

a cool straight grand slam title and his first at roland garros after losing in the semifinals three times before including last year at the hands of well defended i. am happy with the game overall i think everything was was working really well just for the couple of years in the second set. i didn't. move. efficient as maybe i did the first set but aside that everything is working great going on mom feeling better and better every match well djokovic is once again as i said in line to meet federer in the last four stages the swiss must adopt a set but still at last less than a million i'll be on board six three six two six seven six three. well in the meantime argentina's juan martin del potro came from a set down to outlast a frenchman and while. the much verdict of the czech republic dispatched local veteran michael laudrup and critics say that you're one of the song that is pitted

against cedric losses from germany. what has been the women's draw topsy victoria azarenka conceded just two games as the australian open champion thrashed german qualifier visiting my six one six one. that's the better russian says life at the top is anything but easy. being number one. is a difficult job because of her body want to want to coach you don't want to move you from the smarts so you have to. number two or number three number four number one hundred you know you still have to put in a lot a lot of work nothing is going to come easy just because you're a number one you know you actually have more people trying to. be really trying to be true. while there was huge disappointment for the home crowd after world number eight marion bartoli went crushing out to croatia. six two three six six three as the final score. for much has been spared large because that's over and an

advantage of both advanced in straight sets while u.s. open winners some stars that needed just over an hour to dispatch american irina six one six four and the australian is wary of next opponents nadia petrova to have the better of south african chanel sheet that's. now it is different a place where you go to. be ready she can play great she can have a huge say. she's been at the top of the top of the game before so you've got to be ready for it be on. now moving on to football and russia has followed that last friday's one one draw with uruguay with a goal must draw against misty when you're in the second of the friends thousand and twelve. with thoughts of god over the final two perpetration matches before heading off to warsaw to play euro co-host poland russia's game versus the way mail is by far the easier paper starting in place of a of who played in russia's one one draw with uruguay was discussed up for igor i

can say it but after a hectic start with both sides of the course he was really troubled by lithuania's lethargic attack in the middle of the roman shirokov and he got the nice of we're increasingly running the show with a neat passing and come work on the ball. alexander kasia call came close on a number of occasions as andrea sheridan but neither seemed to find a way through for him as stubborn defense half time came with russia clearly controlling the game but without anything to show for it. dick advocaat up to to make some changes bring on four players including roman publishing co parker's accord. and the second half began pretty much as the first shot ended with russia camping in their opponents. was the little we knew this was largely a meaningless game having failed to qualify for the upcoming euros but as the game came to an end they managed to hold on to a well deserved draw dick advocaat was rather nonplussed by the end result but was

happy lithuania had managed to frustrate his team that expected it because we need to say because it is all over. if you do not get from a position if you are not in the right shape to do that then that is easy to stay so defensively. for the first it was alexander because of course on the other hand blame the lackluster result a little when his refusal to play properly was i guess they had a different objects of then you're going these guys play football. didn't do that but roman shirokov put it down to a lack of with the russians game i progressed implement everyone understood how they would play we concentrate too much in the midfield when we should have used our flanks so all of russia's early initiatives handled this issue with you and you did prove too stubborn to break down the cuts or substitutions that hard times also

failed to make the necessary difference in the game russia star hitman andrea shaaban to celebrating his thirty first birthday today also failed to find the killing strike to give russia the much needed to win now russia only has one game left to prepare for the euros and that comes against italy which will not be easy or test them being the two thousand six. and this game will be in zurich on friday mark approaching the on switch. and staying with football and over in england liverpool are set to get a new manager off the swans the boss brendan rodgers has agreed a deal to fill the vacant hot seat the thirty nine year old is reported to have a great a three year contract doesn't feel the northern irishman replaces kenny dalglish who was such a fortnight ago despite winning the carling cup the reds finished a disappointing pace in the premier me paul rodgers this one zero two eleven to stop the guy in the welsh side for promotion in his first season in charge the year before. now alexander ovechkin was the star attraction as russia's triumphant

national ice hockey team showed off their latest world championship trophy as an open top bus parade through central moscow the washington capitals front along the russian capital russian captain i should say i mean they couldn't help the prize aloft as the rapturous crowd chanted thank you and welcome to their heroes russia thrashed surprise package slovakia six two in the final earlier this month to finish the championship unbeaten and they are the hands of my first world in five years if anyone can was that one of its most valuable. player and then she was also russia's first top accolade in the new coach to lobby at the end of the two targets gold at their home winter olympics in sochi in twenty fourteen. victory at the world championships showed the team's court this is the team we intend to build on with its own character and recognize style no one knows what will happen in the olympics but i'm sure the players will go all out to claim the gold now let's talk

about chess because vision and has defended his world title here in the russian capital moscow's to take all of our gallery provided home to this question for match which was a pitched battle of two eyes as indian grandmaster and israeli challenger by the skull found on a tie break while the players were tied at six points apiece after winning a game each and drawing the other ten so it went to a decider within and winning one of the four extra games of fast chess it was enough to help the forty two year old retain his title of undisputed world champion the accolade he's been holding since two thousand and seven and he put his triumph down to mental strength. i would say simply that my nerves held out better. i mean even these four games so much back and forth going on. well i simply hung on for dear life. i want to play more than that. now moving on to basketball in the

san antonio spurs have become only the fourth day when n.b.a. history to hold a twenty game winning streak and extend that into the playoffs after beating the oklahoma city thunder one hundred twenty points to one hundred eleven to lead the western conference finals to nil san antonio studied all their top score thirty four six three hundred twenty want to temps while the founder replied with a combined eighty eight points from having to run to muscle westbrook and james harden but it wasn't enough to stop the top seeds going to nil up in the best of seven series. we're told he's been great all year you know he's he's not. been really focused the entire season. and you know what he did tonight we've seen many times before so it's not it's not a surprise but he was excellent he we played there fantastic game in a lot of ways. and finally just days after clocking outside ten seconds in his gold medal winning one hundred meter run in the czech republic you saying bolt says he's

still prepared to smash his own world record at this summer's london olympics and that's part of his preparation for the games the jamaican is next set to start at the golden goal of meeting in rome on thursday and to promote this event the twenty five year old ran up the vehicle north to the usually busy main shopping street in tallinn capital while back on the track the bolt is due to face combating the suffolk pow as well as french hopeful christophe limits and feeling that champion will be obstacle to his target of knowing point four seconds is within his boss. is never a problem or never stress over things i just i think i will go into so much. to so many things that even if i lose every lead up today because they won't even bother me because i know that i want to focus and that's just to go there because they do great things and i'm confident in myself and my coach that we can put together the program or the work we need to be

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