this is r.t. the latest news now across the top stories from the week rest in libya has claimed over thousand lives of pro-government forces to wage war in those protesting against the regime here and association become trees leader and launch an investigation into his possible crimes against humanity. trouble in the region drugs thousands of north africans from their homes it's a he is calling on the e.u. to help cope with ways of immigrants. the wiki leaks founder is to be extradited to sweden on sex crimes allegations appealing the ruling julian assange 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 discovery the 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. i mean about another update short in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime with spiraling middle east unrest to draining wars in afghanistan and iraq and an ongoing financial slump american policymakers are facing a lot of pressing problems what ots he has been speaking to brant scowcroft he's a former u.s. national security advisor about the challenges that lie ahead for the country that interview is next. mr scowcroft thank you very much for joining all t. you belong to the school of foreign policy realists that's what they say what they say and you're republican and with a career stretching across five american next administrations so i would 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 if there were a surprise to president ben ali and to president mubarak it's hardly unusual or be a surprise to us that. the instabilities in the region are of course obvious and have been for a long time the question is can they be handled can they be dealt with. in a thoughtful sensible way or does it have to involve. unrest in the violence and i think you know really have to wait and see so far the

egyptian crisis has been managed i think right route rejection army has behaved i think very well leave their repressing the demonstrations nor encourage. 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 the policy 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 producer precarious state they're 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 and you don't think that. the danger is there or 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 british field in the nineteenth century in the soviet union just thirty 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 bad don't use afghanistan as a base from which to attack us you anybody else so yeah who are our goal is much more limited and i think therefore one can have more optimism than one did at the previous occupants of afghanistan you yourself i think have been saying the

term war on terror. was compromised it has indeed been compromised how does that marry with the you know with the terrorism threat that is not going anywhere well kerrison 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 carers was designed to motivate the people for a maximum effort care is something that we all have to deal with and are going to have to for a long 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 i think there is still a possibility to avoid a confrontation. i think iran is the case that relative related to the reason that i'm here and that is cooperation between the united states and russia on the whole nuclear fuel cycle. iran has every right to have nuclear power it 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 and that is to clear fuel from russia and return the nuclear fuel not insist on enriching its own uranium or doing things like that 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 of the increase in degree of cooperation between the united states and russia on this issue will have a big impact. on iran and what it just tries to do but there is also quite strong a mood within the government of israel and sort of you know they

support and it's hard 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 by what is your assessment has the recent with russia and asked by the obama administration two years ago brought any serious results it's not what could be the reasons i was a little disappointed for years 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 sense the. nuclear cooperation agreement the one twenty three agreement as we call it is now in force and i think 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 both know that we have a common problem there common of the export of export of her one so on those things. are leading and i feel good about the reset button now plywoods point had been 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 all but now i feel very good about since you've already mentioned start 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 to be used and that is to increase the stability of the nuclear though so whatever the problem between us there is no incentive. to use them and i think now the way it's clear for us to sit down and have that kind of discussion there is still there's still many nuclear weapons out there but it's not just a matter of numbers it's doing the kinds of things that ensure those weapons are never going to be used and that take that'll take a lot more discussion to go she ation thoughtfulness on both sides. but i'm sure we can make progress now that we've laid the groundwork mr scowcroft thank you very

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the latest news plus top stories from the week county in libya has claimed over a thousand lives as pro-government forces wage war on those protesting against the regime the u.n. sanction the country's leader and launched an investigation into his possible crimes against humanity. but of turmoil in the region dr thousands of north africans from their homes italy is calling on the e.u. to help me cope with waves of immigrants and. the wiki leaks founder is to be extradited to sweden on sex crimes allegations he didn't really fit in the sun says the case is simply a pretext to get into the u.s. for a quick trial. and america has its wings clipped the last flight of discovery channels

had to be decommissioned cygwin and under obama's new space program astronauts for a lot on russian spacecraft to take them into or which. one is for me in less than fifteen minutes from now in the meantime kate is next with the sports teams. hello welcome to the sports news and other top stories. the guardian cup dreams become the first team to reach the conference semifinals optimism in the continental hockey league. while silverware and golden chances also to win the following cup wild west town strong liverpool to move the drop zone much to city hall fluent in english premier league. and league of pirate and limping. sweets and gold medals up the rhythmic gymnastics gone crazy here in

australia. but with stars on the ice with sky become the first team to advance into the quarterfinals of the playoffs the team from some spots like moscow once again on the side of all four nil lead in the best of seven series. and that's it period we're not ensconced goals really big three the second goal is nice elsewhere in the western conference it's a new square in atlanta that's it seven style series on the top one play latest encounter but it goes to one level once we've also level best written down the minutes are not my real get needed overtime to pull further right in their side by sister come from moscow and. found a very nice double defending champions outlaws have moved from within and won the victory of the next round of the playoffs after trashing the conference i've probably six warning right for about russia now since the next game i was off writing to them six for the whole of this sort of hours also struck six times to

transylvania this intelligence from the lead he was your brother has played the surprise seriously against that lead minus the goals regular season for arkansas the north and the training and let's start with this in the. living room before going our birmingham city have left their first piece of silverware. nineteen sixty three after they beat favorites are still to want to win the carling cup final at wembley and secure a place in european football next season regardless who are competing for trades and poor thrums went into the final other game in the last seventeen notches against a side fourteen places below them in the league our world bats captain says progress on the a roll call through injury it was burning and who took the lead after twenty eight minutes and retiring straight up because they get within eleven minutes andreae shot it had robin van persie brassicas equaliser and it was just a touch and francisco in the second half and within the last instance not to see a tonight's meet one of the blues midland team playing the first major trophy for

forty seven years also qualified for next season to regulate. and name all in the premier league the rest are moved off the bottom of the table after an impressive three one win it in formidable on sunday had his allegations read somewhere between legs but scott parker in denver bought maybe two million dollars by halftime when johnson cause a late goal back to the coliseum called sealed victory in injury time frame on west town bronze to the eighteenth only to the trucks on goal difference in the red states six elsewhere the city remains after being held one wanted time to follow and since he led st mary a ballot tallies twenty six minutes strike they moved up the levels after these points and i get water on city states birds but it's ten points off the top how to play the game called full and we've got two places just thirteen. he was also very much tonight it extended their lead at the top to four points after a four no when it started work and probably a hundred school in any trial elsewhere moves rose of the bottom and out of the

relegation zone play for one hundred ten month logical aston villa also struck for a home ground in their full one when we're not evident something to no time under newcastle three form the new culture of. tennis and russia's verizon are over one her first tightly over a year after beating world number one caroline wozniacki in straight sets to claim the qatar. but nancy was heavily favored against the second seeded spiner over after reaching the final without losing a set even though the russians pushed hard in the quarter and semifinals she stuck to a game against the day taking the first set six and for the second at the same scoreline this point played to perfection to set up a notch point for us and couldn't hold that great card from the russian eleventh title of her career. but you know it was. very late so many times there were always have to go and there is so you know i was just

thrown through a break where every point concentrate i think i focused very very well i just was trying to go for my shots really hope that i was able to win this one. i mean one has been a one go show at the first leg of the rhythmic gymnastics called free syrian in moscow after world and olympic champion yevgenia can i ever see old or four goals in the russian capital on sunday the pressure was on can i ever to deliver in front of a partisan home crowd as the sports leading lady presented her brand new programme on the matter pollution and i thought was as good as impeccable with the ribbon and the club's notion defaulter while performing with the slip up wasn't bad enough to strip her of another gold so no rival for can i but here in moscow. russia and it's time for the cooling off. to service for her efforts with the ribbon however conniver says more what is to be done to carry a talk for the london olympics next year. well i'm not

very pleased with how i conform to the i made a mistake with the ball that's because i haven't had enough practice with my new routine yet but with the other pieces of upper reaches i only commuted my next. just me my coach and the judges would have noticed that alpine skiing now in the sport's most exciting rivalry has continued on the slopes of the swedish ski resort of or a with world cup leader maria reach it in time spent and defending champion lindsey vonn in the latest super g. event reach have won the super combined on friday but one triumph in the downhill on saturday so both were in top form going into the final race of the weekend just one hundred of the second separating the two in the end the german cup in one minute thirteen point two four seconds to claim a sixth wing of the season a double olympic champion in bank you best stretching a rod coming over on one hundred ninety six points and this could prove crucial in

russia's bid to end the reign of the american who has lifted the coveted oval crystal ball in the last three seasons and there are just nine more races to go this year. was a narrow win out on the men's circuit and on the surprising wrong too often veteran mario not loving gold in his favorite small and event in both area the thirty one year old is a twice while the world champion would have been winless almost two years before this. he tops the time sheets for hundreds of the second question and one for the first answer is just completing the podium. just a leader it cost a lecture the crowd committed a rare mistake and didn't finish but he's still the runaway overall leader. so miles to go with all the formula one circus kick starts their world tour with the australian grand prix the thousands of next and have already been treated to a piece of the high octane action rocky drive that sergio perez with his new south

after the test in his hype city of god lara the twenty one year old currently resides in berlin we commemorated where he comes on on sunday an estimated two hundred thousand enthusiastic lined the streets to walk through a trickle to the scenic a mexican stepped up. from the g p t series to place nick heidfeld inside the team it was fun of course which will help this distance who she is is going backwards. because i've always dreamed of somebody being able to show my formula one car to my people to my country to my city that has always supported be they've always treated me very well they've always given me their affection and that's what really motivates me. and finally the freezing cold temperatures here in moscow didn't prevent thousands of spectators flocking to one of its parts spines. an impressive three hundred fifty metre long ice work was erected coombes keep

working more skilled to host the crucial third stage of the question i swelled championship and the downhill internationalize skating only from twenty four countries were eager to put their skills to the test at the toughest benny in the history of these new sports. fan i was not asked 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 to there to attend the event and no one was disappointed they had action melted the ice and all eyes were on the track russians are new to this kind of i sport what i came to learn quickly and available off was hoping to gain some points from home growth and he stepped to major claim for a place in the final but failed to progress at the last hurdle and then you might feel prosperous feel unfortunately i was just too tired i was eager to get used her

best results my legs just wouldn't go i just sircar to get prepared for such events it's difficult to strain top form. and so the final turn out to be a fierce duel between current leaders are to be lining. feel and came of this karl crux of the flying feeling picked up where he'll lift off from the previous of them dominating older worlds and be lining easily store into his second successive picture of extending his lead at the top of the rankings. truck for me and i just do almost five clean runs i have to build problems in the final after the steep part but i actually i got my bus back but i got a slow start again again and i'm slow starts all night i like a little bit the duck's. back and for it i get on the ice and just like a lot of accidents are getting better starts and there is still everything to battle for the fourth and decisive stage in quebec so it turns fights to the finish

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