and the latest news of plus top stories from the week this is archie. unrest in libya has claimed over a thousand lives as pro-government forces wage war on those protesting against the regime u.n. has sanctioned of the country's leader and launched an investigation into his possible crimes against humanity. and as turmoil in the region drives thousands of north africans from their homes italy is calling on the e.u. to help it pro with waves of immigrants. the wiki leaks founder is to be

extradited to sweden on sex crimes allegations pup eeling the ruling julian assange says that the case is simply a pretext to get into the u.s. for trial. and america has its wings clipped within the last flight of discovery the shuttles are to be decommissioned soon and under obama's new space program astronauts will have to rely on russian spacecraft to take them into orbit. with a spiraling at middle east unrest two draining wars in afghanistan and iraq and an ongoing financial slump american policy makers are facing a glute of pressing problems r t spoke to brant scowcroft former u.s. national security advisor about the challenges ahead for the country. mr scowcroft thank you very much for joining us see you belong to the school of foreign policy realists that's what they say for yourself and your public come with

a career stretching across five american express ministrations 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 the united states. the instability is in the region are of course obvious and have been for a long time the question is can they be handled can it be dealt with in any plot for 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 rejection armies behave i think very well leave their repressing their demonstrations nor encourage. its changes coming to the region but that was that was inevitable as the old leaders. pashmina c so i think we need to be careful but not to mistake fundamentally fundamentally our policy should change in our policy is the development of open societies cooperativeness and progressive development for all of the countries of the region and that's always been deployed to 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 pretty 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 though 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 britain is failed in the nineteenth century in the soviet union just spent 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 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 they're for. one can have more optimism than one did the previous occupants of afghanistan you yourself i think have been saying that the

term war on terror. was compromised 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 long period of time it's in part of 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 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 not whole nuclear fuel cycle. iran has every right. to have nuclear power does not have the right girl 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 the nuclear fuel not insist on enriching it's only really. or 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'm 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 to russia on this issue will have a big impact. on iran and what it decides 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 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 by that what is your assessment of the recent. and asked by the obama administration to years ago brought any serious results it's 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're 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 renewal in 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 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 export of her alone so all those things. are leading and i feel good about the reset right 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 just time to catch more but now i feel very good about since you've already mentioned start what is its political impact on the u.s. for us in 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's 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'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

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the shuttles are to be commissioned soon and under obama's new space program astronauts will have to rely on the russian spacecraft to take them in or. kate is up next with all there is to know in sports news. hello welcome to the sports news and other top story is. the guardian cup dream strong become the first team to reach the conference semifinals optimises in the continental hockey league. while silverware and golden trances upset also also in the following wild west time strong liverpool to lead the dropzone the city held by fluent in english premier league. and league of her own

and limbic champion yet again i cannot sweep the gold medals at the rhythmic gymnastics growing great player in. what was tossed on the ice with scott become the first team to advance into the quarterfinals with titles that seem from some petersburg spartak moscow once again as i can on the side of the phone elite in their best of seven series got a message on a period we're not ensconced fullscreen victory second goal is nice elsewhere in the western conference it's a square in atlanta does it set a style series on the latest in terms of goals to draw on the thoughts also on local best spirits written down by a minute's memory that maybe over time to pull further writing but it's like my sister called from moscow and. i were nice to double defending champions out boss hog nukes as we did and won the victory of the next round of the playoffs after the trash cans outside balanced six one on the road form our russian captain alexei models off us into those six for the hole it was some of us also struck six times

to transylvania and through the lead the boy she was trying to surprise seriously against that's what i miss the goals regular season truckin southern log in the training and then start with the human. being to english football now at birmingham city have lifted that first piece of silverware. nineteen sixty three after they beat favorites arsenal to want to win the carling cup final at wembley and secure a place in european football next season the governors who are competing for trade and full thrums went into the final game in the last seventeen notches against a side fourteen places below them in the league our world without captain says crabgrass theo walcott's through injury it is burning in which you believe after twenty eight minutes in retiring train because it gets within eleven minutes andre are shouting at you that robin van persie for us was equaliser and only guns got tight and for this goal in the second half to respond with any more since he was

not an eighty knots we were never lose control movement team the first major trophy for forty seven years also qualified for next season through regular. and meanwhile in the premier league the west ham moved off the bottom of the table after an impressive three one win at home to inform liverpool on sunday that is our nation's reds well unbeaten late that's got progress in them from bob moving to no one hundred one off time when johnson called a late goal got the call to call sealed victory in injury time frame want less time bronze to eighteenth only construct a goal difference in red states six elsewhere manchester city remain first after being held long wanted time to follow suit he led st mary a ballot tallies twenty six minutes going james up levelled off to the world to make it one one city's days birds but ten points off the top how to play the game more powerful and we've got two places to thirteen. he was a very man united extended their lead at the top to four points after

a four year old and started work and havea hernandez sworn in in charge elsewhere wolves rose up was also in and out of the relegation zone play four hundred ten on blackpool aston villa also struck for a home ground and therefore when i think back when whatever to get something to no time you can still treat one one nicolson. tennis and russia's verizon are about one her first tightly over a year after beating world number one caroline wozniacki in straight sets to play in the qatar and. was announced he was heavily favored against the second seeded stoner over after reaching the final without losing a set even though the russian was pushed hard in the court and sunny finals she stepped up again against the day taking the first set six and she took second at the same scoreline this point played to perfection to set up a match point and couldn't hold that great power from the russian eleventh title with her career. you know it was. very late so many

times there were always have to go and there is so you know i was just trying to fight where every point concentrate and i think i focused very very well just was trying to go for my shots really happy 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 gold priest series in moscow after world and olympic champion yevgenia and i ever sealed all four goals in the russian capital on sunday the pressure was on conniver to deliver in front of the partisan home crowd as the sports leading lady presented her brand new programme on the matter the luzhniki arena and i that was as good as impeccable with the hoop ribbon and flags ocean default while performing with the ball slip wasn't bad enough to strip her of another gold so no rival for can i ever go to russia with sandra one of our. two silvers for her efforts with the ball in the

ribbon however connivance says more work needs to be done to carry her top for the london olympics next year. well i'm not very pleased with how i can form today 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 about breeches i only commuted mind that i am . that just me my coach and the judges would have noticed that. i'm seeing 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 reshaping close friend and defending champion lindsey vonn in the latest super g. event reach had won the super combined on friday but van triumphed in the downhill on saturday so both were in top form going into the final race of the weekend just one hundredth of a second separating the two in the end german crappier one minute thirteen point two four seconds and six when the season the double olympic champion in bank you

best stretching her rock climbing over of on one hundred ninety six points and this could prove crucial in rachel's bid to end the reign of the american who has lifted recovered over the crystal ball in the last three seasons and there are just nine more races to go this year. is a narrow win out on the men's circuit and quite a surprise around to last in veteran marion lots of loving gold in his favorite song and events in both area the thirty one year old twice while the world champion had been winless almost two years before this trial though he tops the time sheets for hundreds of a second of clinching and right perched his. piece of the podium. disappear leda it cost image the crowd committed a rare mistake and didn't finish but is still the runaway overall leader. but still months ago before the formula one circus kick starts their world tour with the australian grand prix the thousands of mexican sounds have already been treated

to a piece of the high octane action really drive that sergio perez with his new sour car to the test and his hype city of god lara the twenty one year old currently resides in berlin we commemorated where he comes from on sunday an estimated two hundred thousand enthusiastic lined the streets to walk by three a trickle to the scenic a mexican stepped up. from the g.t.t. series to inside the scene of his five course which will help his persistence with this 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 me they've always treated me very well they've always given me their affection and that's what really motivates me. in the freezing cold temperatures here in moscow didn't prevent our thousands of spectators flocking to one of its parts to what was flying ice cases.

an impressive three hundred fifty metre long ice which was a rich kid park in moscow just a crucial third stage of the question ice world championship and the downhill international ice skating only from twenty four countries were eager to put their skills to the test at the toughest bin in the history of these new sport. than i was about us 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 i try there are so many folds on the course it's very hard to prepare for a little strictly obstructions despite that freezing cold with temperatures dropping as low as minus twenty two degrees thousands of spectators still dare to tell the vans and no one was disappointed they had actually melted the ice and oh eyes were on the track russians are new to this kind of ice sport but a keen to learn quickly and available for scoping to be in some points and homegrown and he stick to major playing for a place in the final the feel to progress at the last hurdle the senate and you

might feel prosperous feel unfortunately i was just too tired i was eager to use her best result just wouldn't go watches are hard to get prepared for such events it's difficult to sustain top form. and sold it final turn out to be a fierce duel between current leaders are to be lining. feel and qantas kyle cooks all the flying finn picks up where he'll left off from the previous of them the many old the rooms and people lining easily store into his second successive big two is extending his lead at the top of the rankings. truck for me and i understood you almost five clean runs i have real problems in the final after the sea part but i luckily i got my first back i got a slow start again again but i'm slow starts all night allies will beat up. like a brit i get on the ice i'm just like the older i said to get better starts and

there was still everything to settle for at the fourth and decisive stage in quebec so it turns white to the finish between feline cook so isn't dissipated on the nineteenth of march same part of a party. that's all the sports are. hungry for the fall so we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on the t.v. .

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