it's all this is a scene rough son germany still missing this is new an inboard as a ghostly disease crane's most news ever improving relations west and agreement to use food as the diplomats in what. america's longest war the u.s. involvement in afghanistan something passes vietnam as frustration builds and for the growing human and financial costs that's ties in afghanistan leads to an all

time high in the bloodiest month of foreign troops since the sultan from. russia and the us mall with us three of the joint spaceflight before in cold relations the whole load on this day five years ago to spacecraft want to solve it one american lost it all laser doctrinal base and the apollo soyuz mission. but from the very beginning the spy scandal between russia and the us read like the pages of an espionage novel a famous author all of the genre frederick forsyth all things he isn't up for sale of the recent scale operation an hour into. i'm here with frederick forsyth internationally renowned crime fiction writer set and we're talking about the recent spy swap between the u.s. and russia where ten spies were deported from the u.s.

in exchange for four in russian presence most of all so i thank you so much for talking to r.t. today that this seems to have been a very lengthy process in which no actual secrets were passed on do you think that these particular spies would ever have produced information that would have been of any value well it's difficult to say what they would eventually. manage to get hold of certainly what they were doing when they were discovered during very quiet suburban lives it does for a lot of people they have not penetrated any major institution like cia. or f.b.i. or the pentagon or some nuclear facility that and any of that they might have been used as me go betweens but one doesn't think that as the primary information source they were nowhere near as sensitive material and these kind of deep sleep i mean what kind of person would do that it seems to be quite a special type of scale it is to do to leave your homeland to go to somebody else's

and really. sink yourself in this society to such a degree that you can puff for one of them is an exceptional skill it takes years of practice the idea that they just arrived with no training is nonsense they would have been years in a like an all-american village some more a person the urals becoming americans over an extended period and then to arrive in a no you may never see your homeland again it's a way in for most people terrific sacrifice to make and how serious a threat still think these people will some sleepers in history have indeed been immensely valuable. to the person they're working for. but it's very very unusual most traitors for example spies who spied against russia or the u.s.s.r. in during the cold war were themselves russians oil ukrainians or you know and traders in the west were british or americans. very rare to find someone who can

pass. for me gordon lawns dale who was the must of mind of what we call the portland bill spy ring many years ago was indeed colonel. of the k.g.b. but he was gordon levels of the canadian businessman. and he was asleep but it's very unusual it's the most unusual. form in which espionage takes place and this is all that it's actually still ongoing just this week we had the arrest of another yet another spa in the united states only twenty three years old which seems extraordinary young what kind of training do you think he would have had at such a young age well i don't know what i don't know how he was able if he was indeed able to process of the thing about america it's an easier. to penetrate than in british society because i mean america is an ethic melting pot and you can say hey you know i'm a bum a polish immigrant i love america polish american and i have

a name like cobol ski because my american with a name like evolves because it's harder to say i am. hoping to go my answers go back three hundred years in britain when you're not. these things could be checked so you have to have what's called a legend that's going to be very very perfect takes years of working all and usually as it with gordon lonsdale there was once a golden globe still as canadian boy who died and his entire life story was taken over by the k.g.b. . who created a new one around their own their own man that i was usually done to take over someone who died but who who is ancestry can be proved. that side's done do you think that this latest arrests which came all through all the others and often we thought that this was in fact david do you think that means that this story may continue i should know i think they probably. the end i suspect

the newcomer the last one was probably something that some of the f.b.i. discovered going through the papers of the one of the ten. but the ten who i think not all of them were known even to each of us. i suspect the betrayal if that's the word the giving away of them started with a tip off the whole thing to me reeks to pull off and let's not forget the f.b.i. been working for years on them there's wasn't as of a day on monday we saw the old tip we arrest them on saturday they were following them for years and checking them out and checking their backgrounds out and finding obviously eventually flaws that said this is not the person he or she purports to be somewhere i'd imagine in there they got the name of the eleventh. i did mention do you think that the the rest of these people at that time was politically makes of a sense i don't know i it's all because. it came just. prime

as a president medvedev was. sort of sharing a hamburger with the american president so maybe the american president barack obama wasn't very pleased that it would be at that moment. it could be a decision that the director of the f.b.i. said we can't delay perhaps he thought they might fly the coop if they didn't do something quickly but anyway there were there was one shot of the two heads of government cheerily sharing a hamburger about three days later. this is a humiliating story for four from the ten eleven of their agents picked up one got away to cyprus of course but that can't cannot have been available very embarrassing for moscow and let's talk about that one that got away what do you think could have happened to him obviously he skipped bail was gone that oh one has to remember cyprus he got to sort of cyprus where he was arrested

and some magistrate with more as presume a bigger bank account than he's got brains gave him bail despite the protests of the american consul inside the courtroom. as soon as you go bail he vanished well for obvious reasons i mean there are a lot of wealthy russians who live in cyprus and some have you private airplanes and some have private yachts and i think probably only he was on one go up very fast to see him go. this is a thing that was sold very quickly much more quickly than it would have been for example during the cold war why why do you think that was what was behind the solving of it i think the reason. for the original arrests the trial all the arrangements were streaming quick and the decision to swap them was very quick . from america's point of view i think derives the fact that they were they they realized they actually weren't sort of top top top level people.

they were unbearable to moscow. they were almost a joke to the american media who couldn't take them seriously i mean guy even say what have you done in ten years we've penetrated the golf club you know it's it's not actually. i think that was behind the let's get that out of here. and it's also about the muscovite let's get them back quickly and cover this rather about an episode up as best we can and that's what they're doing. benefited the most from this hastily arranged swap over the usa usa it was a propaganda coup. it reminded i mean the watching world that spying isn't over still goes all and both sides are at it and they know they are we all know they are but perhaps we need reminding because it's been twenty years since the end of the cold war many of us for maybe there are spying more on that where they do and so do we. the media during this whole florrie became fix

a sit with on the chapman do you think she's the image of the new international spy . i was. most readers very intrigued and amused by the energy first of which is a pretty woman. and there is this almost media fixation of the matahari sexy spy. when i was doing spy novels i mean everybody thinks expire you must be jerky we cajun music all go but the very few professional intelligence office. that i ever met with middle age women in tweets i mean there's not actually. anything like an entrapment so i think i'm chatman with that short of a looking over right shoulder. to really really turn on the media but let's face it i think anna chapman ever either. seduced you know as

a senior officer or slept with a politician or secured any blinding piece of information a boss don't the most go so. i rather hope that as she seems to want to come back here to live in britain which you did five years and that she's a british national because she married a british. i hope that they allow her to come back was a spy anymore and why shouldn't she come back i i take a light hearted view of the whole episode because i just i don't think any any real damage was done to the us i want to bring. mr chapman a question. what would you think about this is a plot for a novel who would make a wonderful comedy novel yes. almost a comedy of errors. and i think i could have readers laughing at the whole idea of crazy as being all spies what they used to be. quite so what they used to be.

re the state. used to be much more serious because let's face it if there had been a nuclear war between the us the warsaw pact on the one side and nato on the isle but basically between the usa and the u.s.s.r. we would all have been facing the wipe out of civilization it was that bad that seriously called a de mutually assured destruction. i don't think anyone is seriously thinking before one instance the model of moscow is going to even try a first nuclear strike even though they have nuclear weapons and the same applies to the usa i think what's a state is not the wipe out of civilization it used to be that's why it was when it was very very fraught in the cold war it's not for us people have been quite shocked by this particular story because you know a man on the street didn't realize that that was still spies up racing in you know

between between the u.s. and america do you think we still meet spot. what the media. and certainly other than you would you would have us explain to any major government the. spies because every major government would say look. you know there are rival countries to us they do have secrets it would be immensely helpful to us to learn about them. intentions plans technical breakthroughs new discoveries particularly in the weapons field. that are just a part of the rivalry one tiny part of it is a part mr forsyth thanks very much for talking to r.t. today. nineteen nineteen. train carries a way in the russian empire. to

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most open though of opens excitement builds as santander is ahead of the oldest major on the golf calendar. and we kick off with the news that french striker tyrian we will spend the next couple of years stateside up to signing a deal with the new york red bulls the major league soccer club saying the former barcelona player is moving on to a multi-year contract becoming the league's sack of european star of david back the thirty two year old was released by a bar serie a month ago off the scoring just four girls last season he will make his debut for the new york team on july twenty second in an exhibit match against a tour in ham. now while many football teams who participated in the twenty ten world cup are sacking managers and rebuilding your of while keeping the plan to go in after their country's impressive showing saw their progress to the semi's and finished fourth overall. truly a hero's welcome for the football as in most of it dale made it much smaller than

expected in south africa and three to also the netherlands in the semifinal and in their fairytale run to a warm reception for the national team who have actually finished fourth before golden bowl win idea before long also making the global football fans take notice. but the golden mean it would took me by surprise the way my colleagues celebrated surprise me even more it's a pro is the one thanks to a very good group of people and the efforts of trainers coaches and those who just now get over the pros for you is. now heading to the us on the baseball diamond now the national leagues best have finally ended a thirteen year well is to out against their american league counterparts in the am i'll be all star game the n.f.l. stars have won since one thousand nine hundred six and were not getting any blessings at the angel stadium things time around robinson came out with a separate files flying the fair framing allowing three time all star even more it

will be on the board one zero. zero brian mccann however making sure history won't repeat itself anyway seven claiming the twenty seven year old beating a double four and eventually three was that thing for the national leagues past the atlanta braves star rightfully already in the all-star game a trophy for he's after it's. you phil graham this is something you dream about i mean to be in a situation like that just to be in the game i mean to sure locker room with these guys i mean it's you know as a kid you this is this is what you dream about when you when you play baseball and it's a moment i'll never forget. and i was just i was looking up to be in a situation to come through. as some of those stalls played the game with heavy hearts with some very sad news rocking the world of baseball new york yankees owner george steinbrenner died of a heart attack on tuesday at the age of eighteen the boss as he was known have. the historic club does seven world series titles eleven american league pants and

sixteen division titles the expanding however was also known as one of the most controversial figures in baseball is numerous fines and brush ups culminating in a three year ban from the sport for his involvement with admit the word spiral back in the mind to mind the reigning champions yankees now continue their title to found soon the all no over a man who once publicly stated winning is second only to breathing for him. all to go for now as the practice rounds are in full swing at santa andrews for the british open which kicks off on thursday and even though tiger woods as dominated the last couple of times there they've failed this pretty wide open this time around was guilty all for his quest for the first title of the season along with england's justin rose who's coming off to victory is in his last two tournaments including a win in pennsylvania earlier this month where tiger failed to the families title columbia's committee of the us is also in their group just as world number three

leave last who has finished in the top three of the last four majors however the englishman good struggled this week during a. fortnight ago. it's obviously told me i love playing and you know give it to my parents and so. you know. you know. for seven days or so. you know i still feel fresh and ready to go this week and well prepared. but even if westwood fails to perform there is a strong feeling among players that a british player could be crowned champion arlen's harrington is aiming for a hat trick of open wins himself but knows it's going to be as stuff as ever. the more open field there's more guys who are just more guys you could believe they could we do sweet that maybe any open championship for the. last ten years and of course the main man in the field said he's feeling fine after his practice session

tiger woods the double open champion has fond memories of the venue and is aiming to win his first title at santander is. from a five month break earlier this year. i feel pretty good actually i'm hitting the ball well just to get my speed right on the greens here. trying to understand how the weather is going to play a part in this temperature while i love playing this golf course and. you know i still love playing this golf course in ninety five when i first got here my first practice round. never forget it because i played all the eighteen holes in the wind the tide changed one is out there making the turn and it is such a brilliant golf course. and now back to post world cup football news and they retired octopus spool was the only one who predicted the when i add the championships it turns out the final score had long been known and ukraine. this cartoon was created about a year ago and features the two sides that did face each other in their real final

the ukrainian animators even predicted their red card and of course one male was the final score both in sunday's final and in this video a fine guess on their part especially if you take into account spain and hole and had never met before at the european world championships the creator is plan to use similar promos for euro two thousand and twelve which ukraine will co-host with poland. and finally to russian football let's have a look at the latest premier league highlights as they domestic championship resume blast weekend off to a break here is our goals go lower. mum . lisa.

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