just leave it to earth could build a metropolitan l.k. renaissance hotel ok rule suite hotel room pacific sovereign resort and spa. in israel blue cheese available in some of the tell tale of derrius solomon hotel jerusalem. good to have you with us this hour the latest news plus top stories from the week on our team unrest in the kind of a thousand lives of pro-government forces wage war and those protesting against the regime the u.n. to sanction the country's leader and launch an investigation into his possible crimes against him. and his turmoil in the region drives thousands of north africans from their homes italy is calling on the e.u. to help it cope with waves of immigrants. and we can expect to be extradited to sweden on sex crimes allegations and people in the ruling genocide says the case is

simply a pretext to get into the u.s. for a quick trial. and america has its wings clipped with the last flight of the discovery channel's of the decommissioned soon and under obama's new space program astronauts will have to rely on russian spacecraft to take them into orbit. or aspiring middle east unrest at the moment draining wars in afghanistan and iraq and an ongoing financial slung american policymakers are facing a lot of pressing problems and our team spoke to brant scowcroft former u.s. national security adviser about the challenges ahead for the country. mr scowcroft thank you very much for joining all t. you belong to the school of foreign policy realists that's what they say for yourself and your republican with a career stretching across five american expert ministrations so we'd like to

discuss several foreign policy issues with you and your view what are the consequences for the u.s. middle east policy after the toppling of mubarak in egypt and ben ali in tunisia you know one is always caught off guard by revolutions. because there are a surprise for a surprise to president ben ali and to president mubarak it's hardly unusual or be a surprise to the united states. the instabilities in the region are of course obvious and have been for a long time their questioning can a be handled can it be dealt with in any thoughtful sensible way or does it have to involve. unrest and violence and i think you know we have to wait and see so far the egyptian crisis has been managed i think quite route fiction armies behaved i think very well neither repressing the

demonstrations nor encouraging. its changes coming to the region but that was that was inevitable as the old leaders. passed from the scene so i think we need to be careful but i'm not convinced fundamentally fundamentally our policy should change in our policy is the development of open societies cooperativeness and progressive development for all the countries of the region and that's always been part of iraq president obama has started withdrawing troops from iraq once all the forces including security personnel leave the country in your view is there a danger of iraq slipping back into the civil war i think iraq is in or is in a prepare precarious state there are still in fact forming

a government months after an election to do so there are sharp divisions inside the country. and it's hard to say exactly how they will develop i would be more comfortable. with a somewhat longer american presence so that they would be more inclined to solve their problems by discourse rather than strength but we'll have to wait and see the you don't think that. the danger is there oh i think the danger is there i think there are still still many forces tending to pull the country aside indeed one of the reasons for the strength of the dictatorship was to hold the country together but i am hopeful that the people will see the benefits of compromising their differences rather than insist

upon them and destroying the state do you think that the nato mission in afghanistan is doomed just like the brittany's failed in the nineteenth century in the soviet union just two years ago. no i don't think so because i think we are the united states is there for a different reason which is not to control afghanistan but to make sure that al qaeda or other terrorist band don't use afghanistan as a base from which to attack us you anybody else so our our goal is much more limited and i think they're for. one can have more optimism and one did to the previous occupants of afghanistan you yourself i think have been saying the term war on terror. was still part dies don't compromise it has indeed been compromised

how does that marry with the you know with the terrorism threat but it's not going anywhere where terrorism threat is one thing a war is another and terrorism is a technique of combat it is not you can't make war on a technique so i think war on terrorism was designed to motivate people for a maximum effort terrorist something that we all have to deal with and i'm going to have to for one period of time it's in part a product of the modern age like television like radio people are now politicized by issues that they didn't care about before because they didn't know about and so i think it's a long term struggle against extremists who want to destroy

a civilization that they can't cope with it seems that there is no progress in stopping the iranian nuclear program in your view what are the chances that the united states may resort to the military option and i think there is still the possibility to avoid a confrontation. i think iran is a case that relative related to the reason that i'm here and that is cooperation between the united states and russia are no whole nuclear fuel cycle. iran has every right. to have nuclear power and does not have the right to build nuclear weapons and i think. the extent to which we can cooperate to induce iran to take the

opportunities that are available that is nuclear fuel for russia return a nuclear fuel not insist on enriching it's only really. doing things right. and i wouldn't rule out that. that we would be successful how much is you know is this the opinion shared in the united states i don't think i'm alone i am not sure but i don't think there's any eagerness. to deal with iran by force and i think the extent the increasing degree of cooperation between the united states and russia on this issue will have a big impact. on iran and what it decides to do but there is also quite strong mood within the government of israel and sort of you know they support and i time on iran well israel has what it considers an

existential problem with iran but i think if we can deal with the nuclear problem. then israel will be reassured that what is your assessment has the recent. and asked by the obama administration to go brought any serious results if not what could be the reasons i was a little disappointed for a year or so i am now encouraged i think now that we are beginning on a much more positive course. both sides have ratified the new start treaty and that is. a major step forward in terms of renewing a cooperative since the. nuclear cooperation agreement along twenty three agreement as we call it is now in force and i think the the the warmth between the two and the progress we've made together with respect to iran for example and i

think even on afghanistan there is a sense that we pull the we have a common problem there common of the export of the export of heroin so on those things. are leading and i i feel good about the reset button now why were you disappointed then did you feel that those two little happening yes yes i thought that i thought the language of reset was good but but there didn't seem to be much follow through for a time and now it just took time to catch more but now i feel very good about since you've already mentioned stocks what is its political impact on the u.s. russian relations i think what it really does is that is continue the framework that we've built up really over fifty years of how to talk and how to deal. with the military nuclear issue that it

continues that process and now we can look at ways we still possess over ninety percent of the world's nuclear weapons so we need to work together to ensure that those weapons are never never need be used and that is to increase the stability of the nuclear bombs so whatever the problem between us there is no incentive. to use and when i think now the way is clear for us to sit down and have that kind of discussion there's still there's so many nuclear weapons out there but it's not just a matter of numbers it's doing the kinds of things that ensure that those weapons are never going to be used and that take that'll take a lot more discussion goshi asian thoughtfulness on both sides. but i'm sure we can make progress now that we've laid the groundwork and the scowcroft thank you very much for this interview you're very welcome.

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shuttles are to be decommissioned soon under obama's new space program astronauts will have to rely on russian spacecraft to take them into orbit. ok it is not mixed with the sports news here in our team cage it's a big day for always talking fans in the cage. yes that's right it's the last sixteen of the top in the best of seven series want to be has already booked their place in the quarterfinals this is how it is going up and a great. hello and welcome to the sports news and here are the headlines daryn cup dreams can all become the first team to reach the conference semifinals after beating in the kontinental hockey league. red stop city held little pulls a game unbeaten run and he's off delusory want to rest on national city held by

full in english premier league. ending the drought vera zvonareva win so first time in over a year after beating world number one target does not see into. it was stars on the ice with scott become the first team for advance in the quarter finals of the playoffs the team from some spartak moscow once again to take an unassailable thought one zero lead and their best of seven series come to approve the nets in the final period were not in scars before three victory it was the second of the night elsewhere in the western conference it's been squaring the outlands versus seven thousand eeriest at the at lot when that right is encountered by eight goals two one also level their spirits roots and i minced all the remaining seeds and allies and so i was not in riga. and in these double defending champions act bronson moved to within one victory of the next round of the playoffs after the russian kazakhs library six one on the right form of russia counted alex and i was

off from two of those six the holders and about also struck six times to count syria also take a three male lead we should grant claims a surprise series lead against metal like minutes ago its regular season champions of mind of now trailing in a tie pushes the human. being to go it will not and second base also will not see an english premier league action this week and a half a chance to claim their first piece of silverware in six years with a slightly non-burning on this sunday's congo final the gunners went into the show crucible. the internet lost seventeen matches however without injured captain stretched fabric gastronomy theo walcott's sixty in the premier league looking for their first trophy since nineteen sixty three when they last won the league cup underscores currently one one burning in the lead up to twenty eight minutes to the towering frame of because even within ten minutes and ran a shot in robin van persie to see equaliser. a one in the premier league west ham

a move off the bottom of the table after the prostitutes three one room times in formidable. reds were on the night that scott parker and them got all ready to know how this right half time when johnson called the late goal back their calls and call seal victory in injury time three one west ham rise to eighty are really in the drop zone on goal difference and the red states six elsewhere match the city remain third after being held one one is home to full of city life balance at least twenty six point strike it's a means of levelled off in the interval to make you feel on one city state ten points off the top having played a game or all flew with the places to thirteenth. and he was part of a vast united extended their lead at the top of four points after a four nil women struggling wigan it was a day for braces as have you and they scored a trough to ensure united stretch their leader to second place last night elsewhere by events like adelaide double as rallies off the bottom of the relegation zone

they form their home win as a ten man black hole actually young that's it twice in the second half of the aston villa one for one of them to flappy bird drain but it was on target twice in the first evidence to go by when i was sunderland paltalk minute also to go in one bold . plan is now russia's on the right about has won her first title you over a year after beating world number one caroline wozniacki in straight sets to kind the cats all right but nancy was heavily favored against the second seeded about a robot after reaching the final without losing a set. and while the russians pushed hard in the quarter and sony finals she stepped up their game against the day taking the first set six full. seconds the same scoreline this point played to perfection to set up match point he couldn't hold out great power from the russian planes for thirteen it's so easy eleven platell. but you know it was. very late so many times

beach out there always have to go and there is so you know i was just turned through a pipe where every point concentrate and i think i kept my focus where it were very well i just was trying to go for my shot really hit it i was able to respond well meanwhile we're going to see roger federer is yet to be novak djokovic this year the serve beats him in the australian open to winning the grand slam and beaten again in straight sets the kind that you buy championships for third straight time for the beach was delighted with that and his own performance. it's a fantastic when. i reached out to. play there fantastic match from the start to the end you know yesterday i wasn't happy with my semifinal performance but today was it was absolutely different story from the first to the last point i played great it was a big challenge against roger is it isn't always easy just just really have a. while as well as two spaniards who ruled the roost a betrayed it's a basketball coach talk see david farah outlasting nicolas almagro to successfully

defend his mexican open title but the world number six was taken the distance by his much informed compactness seeded third after his third straight crown and he did battle back one deficit with the spaniards taking a set each bosun's high breaks but it was fair finally prevailed decided to take the six to the title. alpine skiing now and the sport's most exciting rivalry has continued on the slopes of the swedish ski resort of poor a with wealth. maria rich pippin close friend was defending champion lindsey vonn in the latest single bent had won the super combined on friday but vonn trials in the downhill on saturday so both were in top form going into the final race of the weekend and just one hundredth of a second separating the two in the end german clocking of one minute thirteen point two four seconds to play the six wind of the season the double olympic champion bang for your best pitching her walking over one hundred ninety six points and this

could prove crucial in wishes to end the reign of the american who has lifted because of the oval crystal globe in the last three seasons and just minority sister go and she. also has a narrow window on the men's second part a surprising one two austrian veteran mario mats and having gold in his favorite slalom event in bulgaria the thirty one year old is a twice la the world champion had been winners for was two years before this fire. he took the time sheets for hundredths of a second at a countryman a time fee for hopes to come back to scrounge for france from pieces that make up ground discipline and the cost of which the crowds committed a rare mistake and did not finish it is still going away over a leader. now the still months to go before the film with one circus kick starts their world saw the australian grand prix but thousands of mexican sounds have already been treated to a piece of the high octane action as rocky dry that sergio perez is

a star by car test in some sense an aura this twenty one year old currently resides in berlin and commemorated where he comes from on sunday and estimated two hundred thousand enthusiastic one street which paris drives through pull off a trick or to snow the cake the mexican stepped up from the g.p. to series to a place new kind felt inside the team was full of gratitude for all the help he's received three those years has been happy. i've always dreamed of somebody's been able to show my formula one car to my people to my country to my seat it has always supported me they've always treated me very well they've always given me their affection and that's what really motivates me. and finally freezing cold temperatures here in moscow didn't prevent thousands of spectators flocking to one of its arcs to witness flying ice skaters and their own if slightly frostbitten. that's what. an impressive three hundred fifty metre long i swear it was

a rich kid park in moscow to host the crucial third stage of the question ice world championship and a downhill internationalized getting away from twenty four countries were eager to put their skills to the test at the toughest venue in the history of this new sport . was that it's the most difficult track it's not very fast but it's very challenging as there are many obstacles coming one after another that's why there are so many folds on the course it's very hard to prepare for all those tricky obstructions despite the freezing cold with temperatures dropping as low as minus twenty two degrees thousands of spectators still dare to tell the round and no one was disappointed they had actual melted the ice and all eyes were on the track russians are new to this kind of ice sport. looking to learn quickly and available off was hoping to gain some points from home grown and he stick to major claim for a place in the final but failed to progress at the last hurdle and you've got your

process sealed unfortunately i was just too tired i was eager to produce my best result at my legs just wouldn't go watching this are hard to get prepared for such events it's difficult to stay in top form. and so the final turn out to be a fierce duel between current leaders are to be why anyone feel and came of this crux all the flying finn picked up where he'll left off from the previous survey and the managing older runs and aligning easily storm to his second successive picturing extending his lead at the top of the rankings. truck for me and i just do almost five clean runs i had real problems in the final after the steep part of luckily i got my first back i got a slow start again against an awful start all my allies a lot of the doubts. if i can bring back on the ice conditions like build it back to get better starts and there was still everything to battle for at the fourth and

decisive stage in quebec so it turns white to the finish between phil lining and cork so isn't dissipated on the nineteenth of march claimed archie. again. thank. you the latest in science and technology from around. we've got the future covered.

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