live from moscow our top stories the e.u. is seeking to impose tougher economic sanctions on syria's government after failing to boost pressure on president also the u.n. draft resolution that was blocked by russia and china. and russia the foreign minister calls western reaction to the double veto indecent and hysterical ahead of his trip to damascus aimed at finding a political solution to the ongoing crisis. also enduring ensuring greater

political involvement for the people through the internet prime minister putin lays out his plans to upgrade russian democracy a day after a massive pro and anti-government rallies sweep the country. plus the russian latvian minorities hopes for their language to be officially recognized in the post soviet baltic states are marred by reports of intimidation being used to do sway people from taking part in upcoming referendum. now in the midst of sky high tensions between the west and tehran we talk to the former chief of the israeli intelligence service about his take on the ongoing confrontation. with me i have mistaken for him had levy before me hade israeli intelligence agency the mossad mr halevi thank you very much for joining us here on our team a nuclear iran war with iran is there with the option yes there is

a third option the third option is a non-nuclear iran with. an agreement an understanding with the iranians that they will not become nuclear and that they will be reintroduced into the family of nations from which they have been virtually expelled in recent months. under terms which will also take into account some of their interests and some of the. how possible is this option i think is very possible because i think the international pressure which is been building up in recent months is beginning to have serious effects inside iran on the economics on the moral side. and i think that the basic interest of the people in charge in iran. is to maintain the position to maintain power do you think you run poses an existential threat to israel or any other state in the region. i am on record as repeatedly

saying that i don't think there is such a thing as an existential threat to israel because i think it is really strong enough to protect it so to take care of itself and i think that ultimately it's not in the power of iran to destroy the state of israel someone who does these we need leadership insist on presenting iran as this big danger i believe that the leadership believes that in order to arouse international public opinion in order to mount pressure upon the iranians it's necessary to impress upon the world at large public opinion there's a national public. opinion this is a serious international threat and i believe that in this context probably the leadership here believes that using the word existence will rings a bell which also brings you back to days gone by in the twentieth century. a rise of nazi germany the world war two and of course the holocaust and.

these apparitions these. pictures these experiences recalled in order to impress upon the world that maximum pressure should be mounted on iraq does israel have a nuclear weapon. i don't know and if i knew i don't think this would be the opportunity for me to say something positive and definitive on that but i think that there is in the world an assumption there is in the world a feeling that israel has something up its sleeve and i think that this is something which is important in the present situation because it is part of the name of the game now is deterrence and i think it's very important to deter iran and if you run believes that israel has certain capabilities where it has it or not i think this is a. positive card in the hands of israel what would be better if israel and than it both had nuclear weapons only for me if i had. i've been asked that question before

and i think it's a theoretical question. what you're alluding to is in the end is that has the time for israel to. change its policy of what we call the opaque. methods of presenting what we have or not and i don't think that this time has arrived at the reason i've given before as far as the mossad is concerned we could define if coming to a mission as preventing war weakening iran in the case that does happen i think that it is the mission of the mossad to do everything in its. capable. to make a. threat which has been posed to israel dormant what capabilities does the mossad have when it comes to iran but here again i don't think that it would be useful for me to hold a list of capabilities leaders of the capabilities which every intelligence

organization i think it's important to say that we have been involved in what we call a clandestine war for quite some time with iran and what's interesting about this war is of course that both sides have more or less preferred the details of this war the details of various events be not exposed to the public when you talk about can this time of war be killing everybody and scientists accidents in the ring implants computer viruses is this what you're referring to i'm referring to all range of activities i will not confirm anything which you have just now i mentioned but i was serving that there is a long range of activities that have been carried being carried on for a very very long time over a very long period of time and i think that the activities on the other side very very significantly and i will not say anything more than that if the war was to break out on who side with turkey on the one hand it is in

a time in bed but it's also at odds with israel turkey would not like a nuclear iran on its borders and i don't think that turkey in the end would lend its capabilities or preventing capabilities to either side my guess is that in a situation like this. turkey would take a neutral position what if your mission when you a head of them aside was to promote ties between israel and left frankly states so how would you see the current policy of what many say is israel's self isolation particularly with regard to its former allies egypt and turkey. well i look upon this in a different light than you have just. mentioned if i would look at the situation israel is in today compared to what it was in before the peace process began in one nine hundred seventy seven seventy eight when egypt launched its initiatives towards israel i think the two situations are not comparable we lived for thirty

years from forty eight to seventy seven seventy eight in the situation of isolation we're not isolated today in the region we have our differences we have more than just differences we have bones of contention with some of the countries like with turkey we have gone through a very difficult time and this was egypt disconcerted egypt is also going through a very difficult time and i don't think that it's in the interest of egypt to abrogate the israeli egyptian peace treaty egypt does not need a war now on its northern borders since you would tie it from the side you have with the radiance. interest among some leeway in eons and some israelis to promote peace i have many iranians in international fora not had private relations or private contacts with the rainy and there are many iranians the way i see it who would like the present confrontation between israel and iran to gradually end

and create a new situation the likes of which we have in from forty eight to seventy eight because iran and israel basically do not have bones of contention we know there are issues territorial issues between ourselves we don't have other kinds of issues between ourselves we have ideological issues between ourselves and i think it would be wrong for iran to enable ideology to be the main driver of its policies and the calls of serious drawbacks which has been suffering as a result of putting ideology. ideology on the front burner what are some of the discussions and some of the questions that all raised at these informal meetings you have the radios who say look israel has no right to exist israel should disappear israel is not a natural entity in the middle east and then you have these same irradiance coming the saying we believe that israel has

a nuclear capability israel should sign the n.p.t. their own proof ration treaty just as we have and should reveal what it has. called into the role of nations only nations and countries can be members of the n.p.t. so you kind of on the one hand demand that israel should sign the n.p.t. on the other hand deny israel's right to exist and i've said to them that i believe that this is something which is unacceptable a second point has been israel has insisted on its be recognized as a jewish state. and they have said to me look we don't say that france in its title doesn't say the christian state of the christian state of britain or the catholic state of germany and so forth and i've said to them that why do you say the islamic republic of iran if you raise the word islamic we will raise the word jewish and they say no that's different why is it different this is the kind of. discussion we

have had to put it that way sometimes very very. heated discussion in your opinion would it be good or bad for israel if assad fishing for. let me first say that israel has no way of influencing the results of the present. events in syria i believe that assad is going to fall. and i think that ultimately our side will fall in a way which will cause a lot of bloodshed. and i think that this bloodshed will have enormous effects on the history of syria and maybe of neighboring countries as well i must it is very likely to have a new tune how will this play into israeli palestinian reconciliation efforts if at all first of all i'm not sure how much will have a new leader. secondly i don't think the national has been the most extreme of the leaders of the hamas he's also on record as saying that he's a temporarily to accept a palestinian state in temporary borders which is something which moves in its

significance to a first step in recognizing the fact that the state of israel is here to stay my view is and i know this is not the view which is shared by the government of israel at the moment that ultimately we will have to deal with the actors the way they are and i think the potential of finding ways and means of dealing with them in a way which will not insure the basic interests of israel i find highly of me thank you very much for joining us here on our team thank you.

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firefighting is about eighty two percent of what we do the for the problem is medical i thought a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for it i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a safe francis and we went for four hours and fifty minutes staring at a wall of patients and we have a federal law that mandates that if you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least.

party's top stories the e.u. seeking to impose tougher economic sanctions on syria's government down to palin to boost pressure on president also through a u.n. draft resolution that was blocked by russia and china. and russia as foreign minister called western reaction to the double veto indecent and hysterical ahead of his trip to damascus to aimed at finding a political solution to the ongoing crisis. also ensuring greater political involvement for the people through the internet prime minister putin lays out his plans to upgrade russian democracy a day after mass pro and anti-government rallies sweep the country. but the russian

mafia minorities hopes for their language to be officially recognized in the post soviet baltic state are marred by reports of intimidation being used to dissuade people from taking part in an upcoming referendum. now it's time for sports here on r t with kate. well welcome to the sport and here are the top stories. deja vu the new york giants produce a late comeback once again to break new england and win the super bowl twenty one seventeen. while the guilty alberto contador is stripped of his tour de france title and picks up a two year ban for failing a drugs test. on the track russia's olympic high jump champion and there is a lot of records the biggest leap of the year as the country's athletes shine in

moscow. says the new york giants are the winners of super bowl forty six of the quarterback eli manning led his side to a dramatic twenty one seventeen victory over the new england patriots in indianapolis just as he did four years ago when the giants were in new england's perfect season well this time around the giants were the foster out of the blocks at the lucas oil stadium for manning combining with victor cruz and nine milind. however new england responded and had then i was in front at half time thanks to a field goal and a touchdown after tom brady said danny woodhead and the went and stayed with the patriots off of the intermission stretching that lead to seventy nine when braden fired the booty aaron hernandez for another touchdown bartz there was still time for a fight back a pair of field goals brought the giants to within two points seventeen fifteen and they then took the lead of the late dr first the running of the court a thirty eight yard pass for manning and that led to the decisive moment the

patriots allowing our man to school so they could get the ball back before the clock ran out but the gamble didn't pay off one last possible brady fails to find the man going behind what grown posting so game over a twenty one seventeen triumph for the giants and once again in late fall break for brady the patriots. this isn't about one person this is about a whole team. and alberto contador has been stripped of his twenty ten tour de france title and handed a two year ban by the court of arbitration for sport after a prolonged investigation into his positive test for performance enhancing drug the twenty nine year old spaniard failed a test for. our roots to sealing his third the tour crown but he now officially only has two of those titles and will also be cycling's most famous race this year and the london olympics as well as lose the italian idol he claimed last year

contador had pleaded not guilty to the doping charges saying he never took drugs that blamed contaminated meat for the failed test results contador the next big event could be a spanish welter in august. the cast postponed. was guilty of being orphans and the sanction is that. there shall be suspended for two years with richer activists picked on the twenty five january two thousand and eleven with the suspension that was already served in two thousand turn. should be able to compete again on the sixth of august twenty twelve. tennis now and russia will play serbia in the semifinals of the fed cup after a three two win over spain while also taking a two no lead on saturday russia completed the job on sunday spain did have the deficits when world number thirty three no idea that lost in straight sets to

carlos rogers have already six lost six three but that's over finished paying off with a street set with sylvia sol that as we know is a victory set off a home semifinal tie in a goal against serbia he beat belgium three two although there's again some answers today over whether reassurance that that will be available. well the czechs are the defending champions and they beat germany four one to reach the other seven final after needing to know from saturday while to number two bit of a seal the victory after come. from a set down to beat sabina lisicki the czechs will next play italy after they beat ukraine street. football now manchester united missed the chance to move level on points with league leaders manchester city off the stage in a remarkable three goal fight back to draw three straight chelsea in the premier league jonny evans own goal have the blues won a lot of the break but all the drama came in the second half quick also one that at least meant chelsea were three goals to the good after fifteen minutes but to wayne

rooney penalties and then later having a atlantis head that completed an astonishing comeback the draw leaves united trailing city by two points and while england manager fabio capello could be a breach of contract for backing his deposed captain john terry the center hopes to side and over point behind i should say ahead of newcastle he went back up to best with a two one win over after another chance the manager and they were left to us was disappointing by the referee at stamford bridge. if you go one first all is over obviously penalty and there's nothing to say about it the second one is very dubious. i don't even know if. is the correct angle to make a decision maybe the lions will give it i'm not sure. but but it's. very very unlucky for him to give a penalty like that. not sure if he's going to give anything in the first but there is a there is a wrong decision. well for you on this monday night luis suarez will return from an

eight game ban as liverpool host third place top who could get within two points of manchester united with a victory at anfield while a win for the reds would see them also into six. now over to goals and what a difference a week makes as american calls stanley has won his first title on the p.g.a. tour after coming from eight shots down on the final day of the phoenix arizona after spectacularly missing out in his previous event while this time last week suddenly threw away a stray stroke lead on the follow. the whole of the farmers insurance open where he went on to news in a playoff and it didn't look like keeping contention this time around in the desert turns a love in here started the day six shots clear of the field and eight ahead of stanley but that lead evaporated with a run of bogeys leaving spencer distraught and finishing with a round of seventy five while stanley was sinking the birdies his fifth the round drawing him level on the leaderboard after a nice chip out of the rough on who managed to keep his call on the greens for

a two shot victory delighted at his changing fortune and within the space of just one tournament. you know that's golf but i think you know you need to accept the fact that they're going to be ups and downs and you just can't get too high character to love but you know understand profits so much force support from so many people people i don't even know and it's really how they kind of you know put it behind me and move on and. you know it's been great. and finally being mixed fortunes for russia's olympic champions at the russian winter athletics meeting here in moscow. that i send off but. felt i'm well and pulled out of her race with just meters to go for the first time in her career when kosar of has no. though the russian winter tournaments carries no one in the qualification points it still manages to attract the world's top let it talents year after year and that's jump

straights are selected winners where olympic champion and a season of recorded the best leap in the world this season in the high jump clearing two metres and thirty six centimeters while european champion alexander should start finished in second place after failing to overcome the two metre thirty two centimeter mark. if i had not set the bar if i had stopped to thirty six then naturally i would not have any more to vacation to keep trying for maybe two thirty four would have been enough for me that i could have stopped there but i went on i will keep trying to jump of that to forty one. olympic champion a u.t. boards like off ski was only six hundreds of a second short of the national record finishing second to the continents so brunner odds on shots of poland who crossed the line on one minute fifteen point six seconds third place in that event went to another russian sip on voice dog off. of

the before bumping into the canyon athlete i was actually hoping for a world record you know at this competition but i've been training three hard and i feel that i'm ready to go but you saw what happened from european endure a long jump champion geriatrician i became a triple russian winter winner after improving her season's best by one centimeter every cording six meters eighty six centimeters at the tournaments and moscow olympic four by one hundred relay champion alexandra de joria by surprise the fans and probably herself soon after posting her personal best as well as the world's third best time of fifty one minutes and forty six seconds. i am very happy today and i did not even dream about achieving such a result this is my first cycle contact to race in full range of nita's and i believe i chased the right tactics i managed to hold on to the lead closer to the finish line and one despite the fact that my opinion vanya stumbled into his nine fed dominance in that sector u.k.'s dwain chambers who's hoping the lifetime ban

for doping offenses by the british olympic association will soon be lifted showed that he's insult shape after finishing just zero point zero one seconds behind the american winner josh morman in the commitments indoors you might know from the trials that happen every sunday for those women and i stood up to movies you know to what in those instances what if i. no those are my priorities and most of those on the way and in the summer stalls the things i think about the things but now it's also for me there were no surprises in the men's five thousand meter race walk with the libby champion valley borson topping the all russian podium. while in the women's section of this discipline russia's top favorites for gold in london and he's going to have to pull out of the race with just one hundred metres left to the finish line allowing twenty two year olds could just get out to killing first price on call through artsy moscow. and assholes foresees this person would be more just

on that's who asked. the. question was the same of you i can tell you the others most of us were trying to say search of national commission and sovereignty this is what many scots say they want how realistic is an independent scotland would it be of.

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