sort of don't speak about the connection between afghanistan the troops we have in afghanistan and nato it's sort of kept aside so people in this country they are not in favor of their soldiers in afghanistan and it was not at all brought up in the campaign for the election last autumn. so i can't on that i can see it's sort of simon's the whole thing it was very obvious when it was. it was. a suicide bomber set off in got down no newspaper connected this with the fact that swedish troops are in afghanistan we don't know for sure what the kind of connections were but they did the newspapers didn't connect the don't talk about the thought that the problem it was it is not discussed. and why does the swedish

media ignore these kinds of things why are people talking about this not until i show the man and show the global reach of nato and the how what they are doing up in the north like us was born being training bomb training in order bought then the it said this is all you are telling the truth because it's not told tell us more about these operations how do you find out about these kinds of things that you say have taken place in the north why do i know because i had close contact with my friend in kiruna up in the north she calls me and say now they are here again and in the northern new magazine there are no newspapers local newspapers they cover it but not here we could leave in two countries different countries not a boughten is sort of on the other side of the world it is not covered i know that

there were nuclear capable flights up in the north last summer that the for sure. they didn't carry nuclear weapons but they have them stored in ramstein b. sixty one look it up you have a clue to computers i mean it's not to be a nuclear weapon to do doot doot it comes i mean you have to say nobody can say today we do know everybody knows everything if they want. i don't think they had nuclear weapons when they were bomb training up in the north berthed it why was it then so silent because it was such. a step that the us air force were in come to northern sweden and train vom being so close to russia. what if we rush to canada and train bombing shouldn't it be

a little bit. unfeeling if we didn't it would have war. i mean i would be very very scared if they started bomb being close to another country kamal from the other side of the ocean and started training bomb being a course the americans should have the right to be to be to be secure and so what's going on here what are they planning for what are they planning for like in the northern sweden so close to russia we have left it recently i mean it's not it's not many years since it was seems they were invaded from the west that's why i always bring. figures when i talk about these about how many people were killed during the second world war i was eighty years old when the war was over i don't remember the war but i remember i was afraid but those who are a little elder it's just just today it's yesterday and you shall always be

under understand that people who have endured such a horrifying war like russia you shouldn't treat them that way west is treating russia today by encircling strangling pointing at you from the submarine from. outside so more months you have tried in submarine surrounding the whole a ratio what is that but the international community says they understand russia's caution about nato do you think they really do it's about surrounding a regime. and in the end strangle maybe not bomb but strangle and threaten so you get your guest you get the same bierria scarce you can put up your your oil pumps and the like they tried during jensen i mean it was almost

there they they really wanted to to to come into the core of the russian foreign ministry and then drew but then put it cape and then what what was they telling what was the calling putting all hitler is a whore you see what has he done he said stop enough is enough so if the whole grand chessboard the whole playing with the word and world and we are in it we are in it sweden is one of the like a say us is an imperial and sweden is one of the forty nations in the sea imperium i don't say if the one of the military was called to military that so we are not a small entity in these we are in the empire. and why what's in it for sweden why does the country's political elite want to help or to most likely be in the

alliance what are they doing to get them on the hook what are they doing what are they promising them or i really i don't have the answer because for me it's insane this policy it's true it's pure insanity ho many things can united states government show that they don't care about people's when they show they torture in for instance all these terrible torture place in. the being one time on the mall in every place they are violating international law they are violating all treaties all treaties and they come away with it do you think that sweden hides behind partnership for peace to cooperate with nato oh it's we all knew some of us knew for heaven's sake partnership for peace is just the end to chambre for nato but partnership for peace was the most i haven't heard it but they told us told me when

i was in new york a couple of years ago that pentagon said had said partnership for peace is considered the most brilliant idea the pentagon ever had come forward with it was so successful because you could look at what the partnership for peace has turned into what made almost olympus and almost all countries that former partnership or peace they already made to and why is partnership for peace so brilliant because you get aligned right into the foreign policy to start to discuss to get the possibility to just start to talk with their with the people who are who are responsible for four of four for important policy that is partnership for peace and they fooled a lot of peace organizations are you crazy are you really crazy you are going with nato on no i mean it that it's appears organisation so they were talented those who

brought this up they were but the worst thing and the. thing that made us just be one need to call the joining european union and then after they say it was just partnership for peace i mean it was it was the it was the case i mean it joining european union richard holbrooke who came here in one thousand who are said hello to to us you know richard holbrooke when he is around. where now he is dead but there are certain are there others coming but richard holbrooke and he said why don't you can take on the baltic states so sweden did look at what we're doing now we're almost one of the best guys in the club in the it we do more than the other countries that are in nato that was sweden is now it's a shame it's

a shame i've found i missed my countries joining in nato secretly forming people. that what i thank you very much for sitting down with us.

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good to have you with us this is sports today i mean these are our headlines this hour. capital conquest being an f.c. twenty in the first leg of the opening round of thirty two clash in moscow. using their swing and. slipped to their fourth straight lost by golden state maybe a. kid gloves we take a look at the future stars of the russian martial arts scene with the full contact code. in our focus this. history is in the making today what four russian clubs taking part in the knockout stages of the europa league for the first time but it hasn't been a great start to the day for them in the round of thirty two states being well they've already lost their first clash at home to twenty it was touch and go if the game would go ahead at all because of the extreme cold minus twenty two degrees

centigrade today in moscow but when it did the dutch. final score at the luzhniki. time couple sites. russian champions need to get their runner thirty two ties underway all away from. meanwhile liverpool are also in action on thursday night the reds take on sparta prague. with the number of first team players including as . a first start this spike the fact he's only just turned sixteen their opponents are sort of prague who haven't played a competitive fixture in over two months jutes of the czech league's winter break stating he isn't worried about throwing young players in the deep end. we want to make sure that if you lose football club and because they deserve to be there because maybe we've got to the moment. they said they have the the very whale. and not in

a mobile carrier that way there's only go the other way then these cup. back to wednesday nights were two goals in five second half minutes give are still the edge in the first leg of their champions league last sixteen encounter but barcelona david theo had handed the visitors the lead midway through this first half aforesaid threatening the arsenal goal continually however with a dozen minutes to go the gunners restored party through robin van persie of just seven minutes left on the clock under a r shaaban who started the game on the bench finished off a brilliant move to give the londoners a slender unde on the likely advantage heading into the second leg of three weeks' time. tonight she's on gives us a chance to go to basu no reason believe we know but. of course again. we. would be hard you focused on trying to play. it probably she's not doing so and she gave me the second. look because i moved to this is

a place in this no no it's because these guys have shown before the last years the will turn their equality and we're going to try to arsenal knows that we're going to try but we know before this game before the second. that they are a very very good team a strong team person and my you know a lot of these qualities of style and they wanted that we wanted to to talk. shocked hard to nats came away from their first ever european cup knockout stage game with a three two victory in rome the ukrainian champions fell behind early on but it brilliantly through their brazilian trio of judson costa this fabiano who all struck in the first half the romans pulled one back just after the hour mark but it's the side from the banks of the sea or favorites to make an extra. play football behind a move to a ball where the utah jazz well welcome the upcoming all-star break as the western conference outfit slipped to their fourth straight loss coming unstuck against

golden state this time around utah had won just four of their last seventeen going into the clash on were also without question undercurrent who was on the bench with a sprained ankle alongside another starter rob bell but didn't seem to hinder them early on and by the third quarter the home side had threatened to open up a double digit lead however the visitors hit back impressively to go in front in the fourth with monta ellis who had thirty five points in fine form to be no way back for the just the salt lake city man losing one hundred seven to one hundred which means the pressure and head coach ty corbin increases no such problems for golden state he went to the all-star break on the back of three straight when it's . been well defending champions the l.a. lakers are going through a tough time themselves losing their third straight this time against the worst team in the league cleveland orlando made like the work of washington on the home court rushing that was inch by twenty five points detroit needed to wear time to the pacers i am

a registered. on the new york knicks had few problems against i'd love to dallas at home to sacramento seeing off the kings got sixteen points the l.a. clippers were too good for bottom in the west minnesota while there were also wins for philly denver and port. switch into the european harbor. the shock of a top sixteen stage to date the list to any inside seeing off group. g.e. leaders fenerbahce by a point seven five eighty four it looked like the turks were on their way to window for us for they were looking for but tamasha delling practice and pull us on this other idea is pulling the host level by the time the buzzer sounded to put the game into overtime where a three pointer by thomas. on free throws by month. would guess. the gelug race to take them nor one much needed win their first of the top sixteen for them result keeping the lithuanian sides playoff hopes just about life. while

and group g. partisan belgrade will be playing ball following a seventy seven seventy four defeat at monta prostate sienna the italians finding sells a point i hate at half time while in the fourth the hosts had taken a seventy seven seventy one lead with three seconds to go to ball six then the other stunning three point effort to reduce the gap to three points but of a case of. seventy seven seventy four the final score and not one. full contact martial arts have exploded in recent years all across the globe and russia is no exception pun cross is one of the most popular forms here currently robert downey an experience age is no restriction for slugging it out. the general rule of thumb about martial arts is that as soon as you can stand and walk you can learn them the youngest of these children are seven years old and they already know what it feels like to fight it tournament kicking punching wrestling allowed so many

ways to win she is the one you like the martial art of comes from big games and combines both wrestling and hand to hand fighting techniques such as needed when it comes to youngsters safety is vital in this tournament in particular they use special outfits plus we have strict rules so opponents concord each other any serious harm however these a full contact bouts besides the coach's role in this respect just cannot be overrated the better he prepares a student i mean as an ultimate fighter with both wrestling and hand to hand fighting skills the more he succeeds in the sport. kids are first told basic skills and techniques along with general fitness training all this is a must before starting a potentially professional career in later life is no merry hurts and it makes some parents never see the and worse none too when the to lose with honor.

instead of footballers on their bedroom walls the often have posters of this man for the remainder of the russian mixed martial arts legend or others he simply wanted to match their peers. once or so some guys train in my school basement i decided to try to myself know i want to become a pro. i enjoy both stand up fighting and wrestling in need to be good at all aspects of the sport to succeed in competitions i always try to stay cool during a fight whatever happens i can't let my opponent beat me. in mosco in st petersburg alone there are over twenty clubs open to anybody who is seeking to gain some ultimate fighting skills that's our federation does their best to promote. people who want to learn mixed martial arts shouldn't just try a little bit of samberg first then say boxing and finally graeco-roman wrestling

they just need to go to a local pub school it's a much more efficient and simple way to gain mixed martial arts skills. so we could be looking at the next follower and all before high school even becomes a thought roberts well known party. and that is where we leave the sport for now we're weather's coming up in just a tick. in

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live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day good to have you with us this hour inspired by the toppling of autocratic leaders in egypt and tunisia protests are getting momentum in the middle east and north africa on the seventh day of demonstrations across yemen peete police and try to quash rallies that call for the country's president to resign these are our exclusive pictures we're bringing you here on r.t. from the streets of the capital sanaa a day earlier two people were killed in clashes in the southern port of aden libya where activists have called for a day of anger is the latest to see violence on the streets in the absence of posey multimedia. things for protesters killed by the passage in bahrain security forces have dispersed thousands of rioters demanding reforms by the country's ruling monarchy in the center of the capital manama the opposition reports that at least three were killed and hundred one.