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to. leave the public disillusioned the european central bank is finally set to help. from struggling nations to lower costs. leadership continues to threaten attacking iran iran in turn threatening to counter strike u.s. interests in the region up next we talk to the former head of the israeli ministry of defense where the conflict is inevitable. with me i have aria hertzog the former head of the israel missile defense organization so thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. on major media outlets seem to agree that the decision by netanyahu and the israeli defense minister of iraq to strike iran is imminent with some suggesting that it

might even happen this for israel on the brink of going to war with iran. about it . the same as you do. i believe that we are preparing all the options. i believe also but the u.s. is preparing options. we should see what happens iran has denied that it is pursuing nuclear weapons and despite the rhetoric on the rain inside it has not struck anyone why would iran strike israel if israel did not strike iran first first before iran did declare very clearly the they're preparing themselves to wipe israel from the globe which means that there is a real threat on their side in addition to that they did develop very carefully the delivery capabilities they have. ground to ground ballistic missiles of a few kind she had three assure him twenty five. most of them deployed in

quantities and what they still need is to tweet the nuclear device to be put on top of those missiles in order to have the full capability to attack us no you just need to combine this activities and this capability is that there are always the threats of the iranian president and find out whether we need to be. in a position to try to do our best to prevent a nuclear capability it's believed that israel has several hundred nuclear warheads and very clearly israel is threatening to strike iran could it not be said that israel is the more belligerent party here the belief so with the israeli i don't know about israeli nuclear capability i know that israel is putting a lot of money in missile defense in trying to defend our population from

aggression from outside interviews that you've given you link to the prevention of a nuclear iran with the holocaust do you really think that a nuclear iran would mean the destruction of the state of israel i hope not but there is a possibility i mean iran having nuclear capability and delivery capability to the state of israel would be the position with the proper regime there. to believe that they could destroy israel by fuel nuclear missiles. and if this would be their believe they also could use it therefore we must be sure that nothing like that can be can happen they are reports that suggest that the israeli home front is simply not prepared for war with iran that there are inadequate bomb shelters that there not enough gas masks would you not say that this unprepared home front together with the war rhetoric is not simply potential

adventurism no i don't think so. i do believe that there are many reasons why to attack and many reasons not to attack the makers of the take all those into account in order to make their crop of the season on the other hand the home front is doing a very great job in making the defenses better and better all the time it is not done in one here it takes a few years before becoming good enough and this is where we are what are your thoughts on the very public divide between the security establishment which is warning against a strike and the political establishment which seems to support when this is definitely a political question i don't think that i have enough background i don't know all the latest information that the political people do have. and the military people

have only. i know only the decision will be taken based on real information and looking at all the options and looking at all the possibilities before the mission statement according to a recent poll forty six percent of israelis are against a strike on iran with fifty eight percent disappointed in netanyahu his performance why would he launch a war against iran if it does not have wide public support i don't think that. the neo has in mind launching a war you know has in mind. preventing nuclear this is what it has in mind i don't believe that it must be a war it must. it must include as many as possible and different ways to stop them one of them may be war but it doesn't have to we were i

believe that he is taking into account all the potential possibilities and his decision will be taken based on that form israeli prime minister who had omits has said that developments in iran did not warrant and israeli strike anytime soon or in the future now you were head of these way the missile defense organization joining the term of office of on it why would all mitt and netanyahu see things so differently i know this is again political i don't believe that they see different. different. situation based on current. intelligence information i believe that almost does not have the information so basically what i would say that is relevant to the period of being prime minister what could a potential strike on iran look like i have no idea about what

a strike would look like because there are many ways to strike the iranians and definitely cannot discover them how prepared is israel to intercept the way in missiles israel has today basically. two weapons system being in place in the israeli air force with significant number of interceptors. being the in a position to defend the whole. area of israel and you need trained i believe that the chances of intercepted. a flight coming from iran is much better the chances of the threat to hit israel so i do believe very strongly in the capability of our defense system how important is our missile defense system as a deterrent to leave and one major advantage of having good. missile

defense is that the other side even if it has unconventional capability would think twice and more before strike because its chances to get a counterattack maybe even bigger than its chances to succeed is the talk what is your assessment of iran's second strike capabilities depends what happens in the first strike i don't know i mean i don't believe that simply is trying to heat nuclear. facilities is what may happen the strike is something that may be doing a lot of different things and only after you see what happened in the first one you can assess what is going to happen in the second and i have no idea about what is

planned if a strike on iran because we're likely to see a response from both hamas and hizbollah with hundreds if not thousands of rockets raining down on israel could israel withstand battles on various fronts i believe so we do have. back to our. rocket attacks from lebanon same with the gaza strip and i believe that it's always better much to have them but this is not as problematic as they runyon is having nuclear capability better at the same time a strike could ignite a wider regional war if not a world war with major powers like the united states being born in is that a risk that israel is prepared to take i don't know i believe that this risk is one of the considerations i don't know where there is a resume to the willing to take it what about syria and its reported chemical and

biological weapons could the fall of bashar assad not see those weapons forming into the wrong hands and also being further spread throughout the region i don't know i know that today they are quite well protected by the army of. bashar assad. in the future it depends of the new if there will be in your gym and anything can happen this is a real potential to get into the hands of of terrorist organizations but you can not know yet what is going to happen i heard song thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. in america.

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training session ahead of the opening world cup twenty fourteen qualifier with northern ireland the clash will mark fabio capello's first competitive match in charge while the team will also have a new captain with a go denise off given the honor of meeting his country richard been portrayed as more. it's a stunning statistic but russia having qualified for a world council's two thousand and two and that's why from the appellant's been great team to try and change just fine. russia coming off the back of a disappointing campaign at the euro two thousand and twelve finals but italian is confident he's seen enough positives to help his side to get to brazil in two thousand and fourteen what happened the past it. was not good. but i think go a ways in my mind to see form work to achieve absolutely. the next it will be really really good i think the team that we go this is

a good team the games they did play the euros they played some games the real way. and i want to see the same. speeded to send the team the same as i did play so in some game to be played you capello will have a fully fit squad to choose from all the players are based in russia and of course there's no under the shah of in who's been dropped italian as an announcement to make it come bard of who's been following form the spartak so far this season will start at left back however he could be a bit short of striking options but just to fit forwards however this isn't something that's worrying capello his moment in. the open after the game against an unknown land would be fit. but i think these two for one i selected two for once he selected twenty four players. after the game decided

to play up north if someone would be injury. he would select new players friday will be a proud moment that you're going to need serve all caps in his country in a competitive match for the first time as he's developed into one of the best defensive midfielders in europe however he's expecting a tough physical test against the northern irish you're the go i think build play very aggressively against us we must make sure that our pressing game is good and take the game to them if we manage to do that then i'm sure it will be fine there's still some ill feeling from the fans towards the russian team falling back paul display in poland and ukraine and it's unlikely that friday's game will be a ceremony however capello's men put in a good performance and get all three points that could go a long way to getting the fans back for it the turnstiles russia will start as i won when favorites on friday as they get their two thousand and fourteen world cup qualifying campaign underway against northern ireland while her opponents have

a reputation of being a very difficult team to play against capello's team will have to be very very best if they want to come away of all three points richardson was played r.t. moscow. and while all eyes are focused on capello's a competitive coaching debut northern ireland manager michael o'neill is relishing his side status of underdog it's a game we have everything to gain all the expectation is in russia they have always very very highly respected the medical coach and highly respect them for medals for and so as a small nation we can only benefit from the whole experience some of the. what we try and make things as difficult as we can for russia to morning. but also when we pass on friday portugal make the trip to luxembourg and azerbaijan host israel elsewhere two thousand and ten world cup finalists the netherlands host turkey for time when is it to me it would bug area germany are overwhelming favorite home to the faroe islands england are in moldova or france travel to finland he's.

now in tennis the four u.s. open men semifinalist are now known thomas but it cannot be mario joined by defending champion novak djokovic and spaniard david for their djokovic needed only three sets to san juan martin del potro packing the second seeded easily took in a six two he had to work much harder though in the second set taking it on a tie break before so now the final set six four almost form from the reigning champion. next up she's down but for the big young coach it's out of reach in an epic five setting encounter the pair on court for four and a half hours the fourth seeded spaniard took the first set six three but lost the next two he came back strong in the fourth taking six three and forcing a decider of one stage four one down in the final set the spine you don't think to force a tie break taking it seventy four heart break then it's not a bitch. i would like to think the crowd in new york which was amazing you know

it's. not maybe a quarter which they want to see without rock. but. not trying to over exaggerate anything late until now at least mention so. this crowd appreciate coming in to fix it. now sprinter usain bolt will bring another remarkable season to an end later on friday the sixteen million pick champion competing in the diamond league meeting in brussels the draken successfully defended his one hundred and two hundred meter olympic titles in london as well as adding gold in the four by one hundred meter relay and rather ominously says the still room for improvement particularly in the longer of the two events. so so nineteen zero to go that's one of my things that i always think about i was going to marcotte so that's one thing or do you want to

try to do the work of one who doesn't go any further than the two hundred metres. or four i can take it now how about this for a career change england's ashes winning former cricketer freddie andrew flintoff is out to relaunch himself as a heavyweight boxer flintoff stating he wants to stand toe to toe with the sport's biggest stars the touch her brother is a thirty four year olds down to one point nine three metres tall and around one hundred kilograms so size might not be an issue the form around a mr former world by the way champion barry mcguigan as part of his coaching team flintoff could yet face another multi-sport starts from black rugby union player sonny bill williams he's heavyweight champion in his native new zealand. now finally in other news it's a year to the day since the ice hockey world was stunned by the local t.v. hours level tragedy the entire squad was killed in a plane crash on route to a k h l match in belarus now pays tribute to those who lost their lives.

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