least after u.s. elections if not actually after the the new israeli elections now opinions vary but do you think iran has an intention to acquire a nuclear bomb i mean this is literally the sixty four thousand dollar question you know there's a pretty good read on what iran's capabilities in terms of uranium enrichment are the big question which i don't think anyone can give a highly confident answer to is does iran want a what people refer to as a threshold capability in other words its ability to produce a nuclear weapon likely or do they want an actual deployed weapon according to u.s. intelligence community and i think most other observers iran just hasn't made that decision in part because they don't need to and they want to get to that threshold capability before they make any decisions about whether to go to go farther than that threshold because there's no point making that decision early in fact it might be detected by western intelligence and so you could tip your hand before you get to that threshold so i think that decision has been made you don't seem to be putting the threat level of iran's nuclear program as high as some u.s.

officials the republican candidates for example mitt romney and his vice presidential candidate paul ryan have been in past weeks essentially saying that iran is major grave threat are they exaggerating at all with their rhetoric i don't think there's a tremendous amount of exaggeration that iran is a threat generally i mean you know the united states and iran have had a pretty hostile relationship for three decades actually more than three decades now they have you know had problematic relations in the gulf they've had conflict via proxies in iraq so i think it's not wrong to say iran is a threat the question is whether rodd's nuclear program is a real threat to the united states at the present and it isn't at the present but the concern is as i said it could very quickly become a threat so let's go back to your report according to the findings and extended u.s. . strike on iran's nuclear facilities whether alone or in concert with israel could

set back iran's nuclear program for four years but it still would not guarantee that iran would not eventual acquire a nuclear bomb why is that it's because the technology iran already has some pieces and parts they need to acquire from overseas but unless you can guarantee that you can kill off everyone in iran that has knowledge of these programs and their ability to produce these basic components such as aluminum rotors you can't guarantee that that the program can never be restarted so you can destroy what they have now but their ability to rebuild that even if you can make it take a very long time to rebuild that's what can't be destroyed what kind of long term military commitment with the u.s. have to make to ensure that iran would never be able to build a nuclear bomb i mean it would be similar to what happened with iraq the only way to ensure a country does not acquire a nuclear weapon is to is to forcibly change the regime and go in on the ground

occupy yes that's the that's the only way to one hundred percent be sure that the current iranian regime never acquires a nuclear weapon so we're talking about a ten year war. what they. potentially could be iran is a larger country than both iraq and afghanistan combined so if you're talking about a war that would certainly be on that scale where there would be ten times harder not quite as hard who knows but it would be a very substantial military commitment should the u.s. be concerned about iran's unconventional war capabilities i think the united states is definitely be concerned about iran's unconventional war capabilities by its nature its harder to sort of define what unconventional war capabilities are and you can count airplanes you can count missiles unconventional it's a little harder to judge but iran has a robust capability for unconventional war they have special operations forces they have kind of services they have a variety of capabilities to conduct attacks without you know not in this sort of typical military way at the end of the day is this really just

a problem for israel iran possible determination of acquiring nuclear weapons or is this a problem for the u.s. as well i think it's a problem for the entire world i mean certainly the you know the entire world has has asked iran to clarify its intentions and has taken steps i think it's a much bigger problem for israel than the united states if for no other reason than proximity in the skies you know israel is a country of you know about the you know in terms of populations the size of new york city and geographically it's quite small it's quite close so i think it's a much bigger problem for israel that it is for the united states but that doesn't make it not a problem for the united states and the rest of the world how much would a war with iran cost the u.s. economy it's very difficult to tell but you know our estimates that even a modest war would would hurt the u.s. economy in part because it would drive up oil prices even a modest in terms of duration spike in oil prices you know the u.s. recovery right now is quite fragile the world recovery is sort of stalled in places

. making modest recovery in others so a big spike in oil prices even if it was only for a few weeks would certainly. damage the u.s. economy if it were a longer extended commitment and big disruption in oil then it would be much more also to the global economy to the global economy and then there's the actual dollar figure to conduct military operations right now in flying planes dropping bombs these things are are not incredibly expensive but neither are they cheap so it would it would there would be a it would be a substantial costly thing so i want to ask you a question that politicians always reject to answer does israel have nuclear weapons capacity it's something that the israelis have been opaque on by design throughout their their history i think most outside observers would say that the israelis do have a nuclear weapons capacity even if it's one that's never really been deployed or tested and as you mentioned benjamin netanyahu has dissolved the parliament in israel with new elections expected as in january february twenty second and what

the how much do you think that will play into the israel in running conflict i think i think this coming israeli elections will hinge heavily on on what to do about iran the netanyahu government will have some decisions to make they could be they could be very bold and take action as a caretaker government i think most observers don't think they will and in fact a lot of the campaign will be about what to do about the iranian nuclear program. so i think that's i think will be a huge issue in determining the future of israeli iranian relations so if israel has a stockpile of nuclear weapons as many have reported and iran has not even if you're on board to build one wouldn't that be somewhat of a deterrence policy in place why would israel consider still striking iran the belief is you know if both sides have nuclear weapons no no no one side is going to be foolish enough to use them knowing they're going to face

retaliation by the other side so the us soviet union the idea of mutually assured destruction i think the israelis are deeply uncomfortable with this because it doesn't take. hundreds of nuclear weapons to functionally destroy israel as i said israel's a very small country a handful of nuclear weapons maybe even only one nuclear weapon some people refer to israel as a one bomb country could do the same damage it would require hundreds of nuclear weapons to do to a much larger country so i think their concern is why take any risk that maybe the current leadership in iran is completely rational but maybe a future one won't be why take any risk that there could be these kind of miscalculations in a confrontation so say there's an israeli iranian equivalent of a cuban missile crisis say over hezbollah or syria and instead of ending in a in a sort of tense standoff that resolved peacefully as in the cuban missile crisis this one actually results in the exchange of nuclear weapons think the israeli attitude is you know we have maintained all along we will not be the first country

to introduce nuclear weapons into the region we don't want anyone else to do so either because why take the risk you know when u.s. president barack obama was addressing the u.n. general assembly and he was speaking out i think iran he said time for negotiations is not unlimited what do you think he meant by that i mean it's you think that there is some kind of deadline a date that. i don't think there's an exact date but i do think that patience for negotiations particularly after the last round over the summer is sort of wearing thin the iranians put forward a proposal allegedly some of the iranians deny it some don't it's kind of tough to tell sometimes what the iranians are actually saying but the proposal would have called for the lifting of most sanctions in exchange for suspension of many of the more worrisome activities of the iranian nuclear program and the president said look we you know this isn't this isn't serious we're not going to remove everything that gives us leverage in exchange for these minor concessions so i think the feeling is look we will give diplomacy all the time in the world if it's actually

working but if it's just a way for the iranians to stall and by the way over the summer iran greatly increase the radio. putting centrifuges into one of its enrichment plants so i think that's the feeling it's not that there's a specific date but if it looks like all the iranians are doing is using goshi asians as a way to sort of buy time think that's when the president will say look we've given diplomacy you know all the time in the world it hasn't worked here report indicated that a u.s. military strike against iran would motivate the country to build a bomb if that is the case doesn't this threatening rhetoric coming from u.s. and israeli officials also cause damage i think the idea is to calibrate the threat and maybe the united states hasn't always done the best job but the idea is you know you apply all of these levers of persuasion sanctions the threat of military action to say look this isn't a good path to go down let's find another path but you're absolutely right that if

you you know if you're trying to convince somebody to do something or else you're going to carry out a threat you don't want to believe in you're going to carry out the threat anyway right because why would you ever agree to anything if you think you're going to be attacked anyway so it's it can be tricky you're right to calibrate that rhetoric that you know if you do x. we will do y. but if you don't do x. we won't do well dr austin long thank you very much for speaking with r.t. thanks very much as a great pleasure i. which is slow often enough and knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first. for him it's a daily routine that you're soft as a horse breeder on the island of

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a time for the sporting headlines his poll. thank you very much rory welcome along with two very sporting headlines is what's coming. down the spread on the part england drove one one in poland in their rearranged world cup qualifier. a vicious cycle lance armstrong is dropped by nikon the same day he stands down from his live strong charity as the fallout continues from doping allegations. are nice and cool like last week's ask our moscow five to zero in the cage els eastern conference. but let's start with football where england have drawn the latest world cup qualifier with poland in warsaw the match was played on wednesday because tuesday's fiction was postponed

due to tarantula rain at the national stadium england were below par but took the lead throwing deflected way ahead on thirty one minutes the hosts were close to equalising at the end of the first half but failed to capitalize on this counterattack very much inside where i had been for a crucial three points when tommy would click eleven for the hosts with twenty minutes to play england remain on top of the group one point ahead of montenegro having played a game more. elsewhere will be looking at a return from the international break can't go back to the top of the russian premier league just two points behind the leaders and jay and as rich of important explains morale could not be higher in the army men's camp. it's been six years since it's come last when the russian premier league title power love is renewed hope that the only one you can find me in the strides to go into sunday's clash with ruby just two points off the leaders on g m a our couldn't be higher after

beating bitter rivals sponsor last time i was always very happy about what today's . games especially because it's the biggest they've been in russia winning these games always very important for. as a team and they're for supporters too so hopefully we can keep doing good and trying to to fight the first places despite a poor start of a season so this guy had been on excellent run winning six games in a row in the league however that run came to hold against norman moscow and to make matters worse the only men who had islands a go of sent off after the russian international lashed out at luke will show the twenty two year old was given a five game suspension and runs with says it was great to get back to winning ways again spark clarke yeah now we're back on track again hopefully we can continue like this there was a good win an important win also for the first test series kumble hope to have

ceded to be our back from injury when they take on rubin last season's top scorer in the russian premier league hasn't played since it's time to move a stooge to a back injury and he's addition to a squad at the ready containing the likes of consumer is arguably been the player of the season so far i'm going to compare between the post could finally see serious. six year wait for russian football's biggest prize richard m. paul three d'arcy moscow now the man who blew the whistle and lifted the lid on the latest italian football match fixing scandal has found a new job as a community english premier league club aston villa so money for dinner was approaching last november and offered two hundred thousand euros to influence the outcome of an italian cup match he reported the incident to police leading to the arrest of seventeen people the former i'm a defender was given an award at last year's for your ceremony but found himself without a club so the thirteen year old is delighted with his new opportunity. it's not

only that but unity for me but for my whole family i have always dreamed of coming here to. england i don't hide it because it has the most beautiful football at the moment for me it's a dream to be here just in a villa at the stadium to see the support of us and really makes me very emotional all them so much. meanwhile it's been another twenty four hours to forget for lance armstrong is the fallout from the u.s. anti-doping agency's accusations of drug abuse continues the former cyclist has stepped down as the chairman of the never strong cancer charity he form the foundation following his own successful battle with cancer believes the post and i quote to spare the foundation any negative affects as a result of the control of the things surrounding my cycling career not only that but manufacture a knife announced they were seven times with the athlete saying this insurmountable evidence he misled the company for a decade meanwhile betsy andreu whose husband frankie rode with armstrong in the

u.s. postal team says they became victims of his smear campaign after testifying against him lewis if i believe there are some. here. to. this. now to tennis where the kremlin cup in moscow is reaching the business end of the competition places in the quarter finals up for grabs today and serbia has an advantage which is just secured one of those spots off the saying often seeded russian valorie or solid vienna in straight sets six one six forwards you can say another russian maria kirilenko is a natural right now against jaroslav a shred of a cosmic scarlett's one that came over the first set. and a lot later on the showpiece much later on thursday sees top seed and former u.s. open champion sound start up against france's i lose corollary. meanwhile in the men's draw places in the last day to also state for three terms police she takes on

frenchman flavia it's a poll of top seed alexander told a poll of all of ukraine instead of qualified waterworld of us elite for the last russian representative alex bottom of junior repressions even call it. now the new year only basketball season continues on thursday last season's beaten finest car moscow looking for that second win of the current campaign later they were in belgrade to take on parties on but on wednesday malaga picked up their first win in group b. they were in poland to face the dunya the hosts were leading with three and a half minutes to go but this three pointer from say new york to sun put the visitors ahead it was a lead they didn't let go of seventy seven seventy five the final school meeting the polish side have lost their first two matches of the season. staying on the hardwood and houston rockets point guard jeremy lin has dismissed concerns over his knee injury the twenty four year old missed the end of last season with the new york knicks because of the problem but insists he'll be fighting fit when the

rockets begin the n.b.a. campaign against the detroit pistons on october the thirty five. i'm not sure it's just that befits the very early on it was you know a little. bit whatever and now it's like you know now it's very very close to them better every single day. you know we're just building up and i think we may be two weeks or something like that to bring you know i'm feeling great right now so. you really get to swimming now where the fourth stage of the world cup kicked off here in the russian capital on wednesday in the home fans had something to cheer us stanislav donuts won gold in the one hundred meter backstroke to match is the highest ranked russian competition and was sitting seventh in the standings the three time world champion missed the london olympics gene to injury and was eager to make an impressive comeback and there was plenty to cheer for the home fans as the twenty nine year old outpaced australia's robert hurley by almost a second to grab first place meanwhile world record holder in the four hundred

meter freestyle will beat him and prove he still among the best the twenty six year old german took an early lead after an electric start and never looked back again honey was unlucky in second place afterwards beat him and admitted the race was not as easy as it appeared was not an easy race because of rubble to be won in stockholm in front of me so i tried a different tactic and it worked well about the robot he has a lot of races he did the head of all the problems the odds are now so i think he's doing a great job however to the kontinental hockey league where two time garren cup one is up. five teams go third in the eastern conference three bellows men pushed hard from the start and went into the second period two goals in front. done study profile on the scoring three minutes and will finish center yako imminent double the lead the muscovites came back into the game for a comparable story on alexander were due of the efforts to make it to midway

through the final period but i saw the post on imminent grab their second gold of the game to obesity. all the way in reality president and tina gold finish tonight five to the favor of bars. and finally one amateur football team in greece has come up with a novel way of getting around the country's economic turmoil bucket. to be sponsored by two local brothels the decision has caused controversy with league organizers banning the logos during matches saying it violates the sporting ideal and is unsuitable for under-age supporters the emblems of the villa erotica and sold as house of history appear on the garish pink shirts as teams look for new ways to finance themselves amid a drastic government cuts however some say the moral outrage is a case of hypocrisy. they advertise sports betting firms various lottery and sports betting games what are these big gambling and these brothers sponsorship brothers

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