eastern europe stayed where they were which of course it was i support the way. so let's talk about foreign policy twenty five years ago you started the process of disarmament between the soviet union and the united states today president obama and edwards are making further steps to get rid of nuclear arsenals do you think it will ever come to a world without nuclear weapons. but. we must do it and i believe that sooner or later we will get there but to get there we have to put the world back in order first nuclear arsenals were significantly reduced thanks to our efforts during perestroika today when the world is so divided we need to find things that bring us together for instance the g. twenty is a step which brings us closer it's an instrument a mechanism for handling the hardest and most challenging issues when we need more than that it's a matter of learning to live in a global world. because you get. two years ago you were ninety

obama and that was during the elections before he became president and you say the united states needed its own perestroika and that obama seems to be the right man to carry it out has obama lead up to your expectations as the president. you know we were told i think he's been doing a good job so far by the way i met with him when he was in moscow i told him your approval rating is still high that's great but remember as soon as you get to some real big issues it'll drug you should be ready for that he said i understand that i think the fact that he got his health care bill approved is terrific but rich republicans don't like it i admire him because when things got hot for example when they had to get the new start treaty ratified he got involved personally he talks to people and about twelve senators changed sides and sided with the democrats and eventually the treaty was ratified i wish him good luck what would you say is the difference between twenty. and twenty first century politicians. that depends on

politicians we take as examples if we take hitler then every politician of the twentieth or the twenty first century is very different from him if we talk about the nineteen eighties it was a time when we saw a large group of politicians from asia america and europe join forces to stop the nuclear arms race and begin disarmament with the ultimate goal of uniting the world i think we should give them credit for that it was a very interesting time because. i think it's what. some people consider you the number one politician of the twentieth century. always remember when you were number one there's a great responsibility that comes with that actually though you can't give a single politician credit for everything or there is always a group of people who realize the challenges of their time and they understand what is going on in the world. with do you think has the potential to become a politician of the twenty first century. we'll have to wait and see if no one

you can name at this point. no i would not give that title to anyone for now they have to earn it no one praised also until we walk the talk today's politicians are not even at the talking point yet but what matters is what they will do the steps they will take their policies we know from history that every time there was a new challenge a new leader would emerge sometimes they emerge too late after some damage was done we have to avoid that we have to act in time. as a chorus of too many people you played a major role in many important events the unification of germany the end of the cold war perestroika some people say that you were the one who brought down the soviet union you were awarded the nobel peace prize some say that you were at the last really a liberal of our time what do you think is your most important legacy. i

think it is the fact that the world is no longer divided that it is mostly free from ideological antagonism this is perhaps the most important thing this creates conditions for further progress when people abroad love you and respect you a lot more russians i'm a different opinions about you what do you make of that fact that you are more appreciated and brought than in russia. i think it's normal after all i worked here in russia and many things started here it wasn't always easy many things did not work out the way we planned at the beginning when we made our first mistakes we didn't really explain to people what was going on and didn't get them involved in all those processes we were self-confident put in public politics i don't think we have ever lost a major battle how. about now what are your priorities in life. my

priority is to help people realize that there are other people around them and conduct themselves accordingly and in fact that's what religion teaches that you should help your neighbor and many people have this understanding they're willing to help others support them. so the most important thing is to remember about other people and their problems are used for wasn't eighty the whole world is celebrating your birthday at the end of march in london few people can say i made this world a better place but you can say that about yourself your children grandchildren great grandchildren what you lack. were the horse and you know the laws and there are a few things i didn't have time to do and i regret it. i miss my wife who was my best friend and i lost her in this fierce battle it's hard you can't forget about things like that sometimes i look at people with a lot of money and they may have many wives many women but we were different we

were very close to me and to be frank with you another thing i wish i had these days is good health well i wish you good health and many more years happy birthday to you and thank you very much. well that's it's become permanent and mobile home is totally own creation of the cube is the root system the global food system is not created to feed the people of the world is created to maximize the profits. gernot trading the actual physical grain your trading promises for grain to be delivered a monster six months or twelve months or eighteen months in the future. for reasons madi regulate silver or gold that can be negotiated and accorded some degree of.

place. yet or. possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future. echoes of iraq because the u.k. considers military intervention in libya as some fear the only doing finance in the african could trigger another disastrous campaign russia as foreign aid governments have said they are against moves which involve the use of international military interests. for us foreign policy and so on americans cresting the country's ever changing political position which they say great given the things that's the course in the back guy with major shifts in power in politics in a backer of at least some americans fear the raffle shake that countries can include fluids. that all things are of the soviet union celebrates his eightieth

birthday nisargadatta chart was the man behind the cancellation of state censorship and motion free speech but some accuse him of paving the way for the scots to pick up sick before it's. got. also of course the earth now where kate and i. were us another big night on the ice in the continental aki where i was yes that's right and i'm also grabbed a lifeline by meetings and i read your last night to stay in the playoffs and for most teams are not shown including the regular season champions the school's rest of the sports coming up there. hello welcome to the sports news and here are the headlines staying alive dominico crap a vital will against an ally really gets to stay in the k h l playoffs or more teams are also in action this wednesday evening. while musing starts brazil world cup

without a better policy taste defeat as she loses it in the russian card. and just in time well number one rafael nadal says to speak to help spain in the davis cup opener against belgium. also paul intends to use the calm but first to ice hockey where regular season champions are on guard have lost four one it has nothing to make to trial three two in the first round of the playoffs the house were behind after just two minutes to go but they got off with a few making friends and spoke both sides netted in the second as to score twice in the final period to wrap up their victory and take the lead in the best of seven series elsewhere matter localhost in a new push to guard it couldn't be closer with the score tied after three straight in a series also tied to a well and she's played it on my last day managed to survive in the playoffs i said tony three one victory at homestead arika. was that. it was one of us could

enormous goes major common namesakes from riga three one down in the best of seven series only victory would suffice for the next not wrong side if they want to continue on for good daryn come trying to hold the story could have been more different from aside from latvia two straight wins on home soil is a problem in command of the series probably the visitors would have to waiver in early storm tomas provides a tactical trail bridge net right from the all you know come out over and you go get a lot of both trying to break the deadlock how that was not going to trick me during the swedish net mind of his opposite number michael garnett was a virtual spectator. such was the home side's dominance however they were unable to find the net despite a couple of chances on the powerplay after not having a shot in the first period and amerigo began to come out of their shells in the second the warning signs were there for the home side as my garnett was forced into making a good save midway through the period of this this would take the lead twelve minutes enormous power play from blue line to sunday's also in shots as only half see by

garnett and broke trotter was on hand to find a park passes for the canadian top a sign from the latin capital on course for victory in the series however proselyte come off worst away is the being on the receiving end of a punch before storing going into the final period a goal down in arm and moscow could see the current cup hopes fading away over just three minutes in boxing bilko gave them a lifeline as his racial beat tell persistent side to bring the home side level much to the going to bed fans who finally had something to shout about in just two minutes later the most of us will take the lead roman there you'll see mr troubling for traffic shall taking a deflation of caps and i mean c. but i sure as hell take the puck past help with what our leagues and all sides a two one lead the home team have for the chance to extend their advantage and make a game same as the side from a lot in capital push in search of an equaliser and they would do just five seconds

remaining with this internet to see the three one win and keep the series by having the points all the game i think we play most most of the hearing there's all. this go to first ball the ball all the way they have a good way and they use it through all this is where. we were able to put those in it. and they don't forget how to change the interface to bachata you know it happened very important for us. how did you know moscow still has some work to do they still feel the sign from riga three. that's the certain series of not being seen for graduates of the semifinals would be treating game seats on. bridges. that's a football and world cup when a reporter called us couldn't help his new side on sheets of victory as he made his debut in the sudden size defeat in the last sixteen of the russian cup as they went out three two to hold the senate the game was moved to the chechen capital of

grozny from dagestan because of the poor condition of the stadium there and despite taking the visitors back to the long one in the first half two goals from danny and i go last a bitch puts in it back in charge and hold is going on to win this ice to meteorologist last minute consolation the trying to spread his mantle next host in the quarter finals. but in the english premier league chelsea kept their fame title hopes alive and dented matched united after they came from behind to beat the leaders two one a stanford bridge wayne rooney had put united ahead but they could luis levelled after the interval you really should call for penalty could have side with ten minutes to go and find out she converted the man who did it she was also sent off in stoppage time united will miss next sunday's game at liverpool united still only dawson in five four points but have played a game or chelsea made up their thoughts. and that was a shock in the f.a. cup as championship side reading knocked out premier league ever soon one nil to

reach the quarter finals mike mills twenty six minute goal was enough to ensure the royals will face the winner of wednesday's clash between match to city and aston villa arsenal but taking on thirty opposition late noise in the fifth round replay the gunners will be without robin van persie for three weeks the dutch forward picked up an injury while scoring in their current cup final defeat to burning on sunday and captain says fabregas is also out that could return for the champions league tie against also low next week yet despite the setbacks manager asked in bangor says the still plans to play for. the. we are there were an opportunity to qualify for your free car and we have won the first look in the champions league a much higher card which then the carling cup even if we would have lost two we need. your degree a bar but. we cannot let our motivation level your confidence in the drop because of my because of the mass of targets we have in front of us now picking up

a red card doesn't usually benefit a footballer but a back burn skipper ryan nelsen it came as a blessing as a new zealander used in showing one match ban to return home and support his family after they survived last month's devastating earthquake in christchurch the sounds of battle sent off during rovers four one defeat of aston villa on saturday so nelson also captures the national side return to his hometown where his father met some at the airport at least one hundred sixty people were reported dead after a powerful earthquake hit the city off over the twenty second frankly nelson's family were all unharmed but the realisation has yet to dawn and. saw the images seriously doesn't seem real it seems surreal on t.v. you know it just sounds. from believable or not you know i just i just feel for everybody who regulates rowsley histories lost somebody or a lost a business or something like and. i'll be trying to do it came to it to help out in

any form. now if you are thinking about going to watch any of the games that next year's european championships in ukraine and poland as your chance because for one month only you can make a direct purchase on your life as official website giving every found the chance of getting around so we took it the first tickets went on sale on choose day and you wait for president michel platini has the ceremony in warsaw to mark the events of those also certainly in ukraine just under one and a half million tickets will be made available for the tournament with around eighty five percent being sold through the u.a.e. for websites with organizers believing many of the games will be oversubscribed. now tennis world number one rafael nadal is preparing to make his fully fledged come back from injury and a top ranked spaniard says he is fit for his country's tapis cup clash with belgium this weekend result picked up a minor injury in the australian open quarter finals in january and has been on the sidelines at the since but he now joins his spanish teammates as a bit fairer than under over drasko and flick the on

a low perth prepare for their davis cup opener away to belgium at the spirit. and four time former champions spain are overwhelming favorites to make the last eight however with a tiny little dance looking walk over for the. i'm fine i already started the practice a few weeks ago so i had to be back on the competition by going on important competition like leg davis cup pusher is a motivation we work on on the team i'm for. sure i want to be difficult on sundays and i ran some as well as your. so let's end with something that's pretty rare patrick at the cricket world cup well i sri lanka's losses for his side's nine wickets trashing of kenya after surprise defeats pakistan sri lankan needed to make a strong statement and i grew up brothers collins and david stopping on sourced which is half centuries but then it was milling it's time for us to put time we shall be doubly. people into. the

bend and we don't change. that's just not true and there's more to come i think to finishing with that stunning figures the six thirty eight and seven point four eight as was the kenyans collapse one hundred ninety two two hundred forty two all at once and the sri lankan batsman had little problem dealing with that total high spot for the africans dismissal to threaten donations of fifty one has wrapped up victory i think is celebrating the second half of the world cup since it wasn't his best so what happened so far in two thousand and seven. million a month i write my performance against south africa in that world cup the place to f it this because in that stage of the game south africa was virtually winning the game and i was able to get the hat trick and probably bring sri lanka back to the game and also with an outside chance of winning it so i think that was a picture i think about the weather today to getting a hat trick gave me a lot of satisfaction and also that i enjoyed alternately with six wickets so

getting wickets in any game i suppose gives anybody lots of satisfaction. and that's all sports happen i'll be back with another update in a couple of hours until and i think i'm. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on the party.

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we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realm. of the future however. goes around because the u.k. considers military intervention in libya as sound fear the only going. nuclear trigger and not a disastrous campaign. russia's markets of the wednesday session on a positive note rummaging through recover after a positive opening in the states on the optimistic good jobs days of course beyond c.s. is up one a half percent so what does my own ninety one points be my six is a point four percent. of u.s. foreign policy is some americans grasping the country's ever changing political position which they say regularly things them supporting the pound guard. was the

all theater of the soviet union celebrates his eightieth birthday our team takes from the album to my esteemed country with songs a letter to chaos. but libyan leader moammar gadhafi has vowed a beloved war and the death of thousands of foreign powers and the country this comes amid speculation the u.s. and u.k. are preparing for military intervention when london's telegraph newspaper reports that british special forces already in libya might be called to secure tons of chemical weapons to be stopped but this comes as the u.k. looks into enforcing a no fly zone over the north african country meanwhile the u.s. is flexing its international muscle moving as warships places in libya violence through is canal russia together with

a growing number of international governments have publicly opposed the use of external minutes to force assets remixing from western intervention from abroad could mean for libya. we do not in any way the use of military assets we must not tolerate this regime using military force against its own people is this history repeating itself the british government getting the guns on standby as a country crumples to impose a no fly zone in this case libya in two thousand and three it was iraq it's looking very dangerous looking quite possible that they will launch such an attack with or without approval and so we're looking at almost a repeat of what happened in iraq and in the results so suspect relaunch of the footnotes every country's getting that treatment and libya is not the only african nation in turmoil somalia's drop out conflict has been called

a slow genocide but there's little sign of us or european military inputs and it's a similar story on the other side of the continent there are events unfolding right now in ivory coast where there is also a conflict an armed conflict between rebels and the government but nobody seems to be thinking of but it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya but also for the political implications of the middle east as a whole because we all know the west including my own country that's got its hands very dirty with the libyan leadership over recent years. with black gold libya has the largest proven oil reserves in africa more than three percent of the global total and there could be a lot more undiscovered the only reason. your oil here anybody screaming and yelling about all those people who were killed in the ivory coast. i guess cocoa was that that you know of much of a national priority but in somalia there was precious little help while the body

count rose over the years except for one brief disastrous intervention involving u.s. soldiers immortalized in them. movie black hawk down american forces failed at great cost to stabilize the country they left quickly and haven't returned and the lessons were learned when it came to iraq which remains unstable even now with only feeble she said that much vaunted democracy allied troops are equally bogged down in afghanistan with new convincing timeline for withdrawal and an ever rising death toll. and the mess that's been made in afghanistan the terrible disaster that was caused in iraq really shouldn't people want any more countries in the middle east it's a model today's troubled african nations won't want to impose on their government which is still ruling. out american.

help. throughout the middle east. and american and european government shouldn't look for backing at home either to a million marched in london even the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three and times have changed this is now austerity britain where starting another war wasn't factored into the budget british troops are already fighting an unpopular war in afghanistan it's highly unlikely the public has the appetite for again getting involved in someone else's struggle as they are at home in the face of deep cuts in unemployment and it's unlikely to be popular inside this building the ministry of defense has to slash spending by more than seven and a half billion dollars in the next four years it's an intervention britain would find hard to afford on many levels your and it's hard to see. and you were massive in scowl terms told r.t. that while libyans may want to regime change it should be achieved from within not

by foreign intervention. i'm extremely worried it could be a foreign intervention and i think united states and britain i think it's very difficult for them but on the other hand if they feel that there's any opportunity of toppling and installing a pro western regime or if on the other hand they think feel that oil interests in africa and the interests are in some way threaten then i think ultimately they won't i will perhaps i'm particularly concerned about the no fly zone policy that spain and itself but comparison would be what happens in iraq in the nighty night says at the end of the gulf war of one thousand nine hundred one the united states and britain and so on a stop lift a no fly zone the net result was that hundreds of thousands of iraqis were killed the infrastructure of the country see net result of

a no fly zone whirls not to prevent but of course the humanitarian crisis and it doesn't take a great leap of imagination to see that sort of situation unfolding in a population across the region has made pretty clear in my opinion that although it wants to change regimes it doesn't want foreign intervention you don't need a degree in politics to work that out some to understand what's being said of course it doesn't want america and britain in. combination the program america's foreign policy carries under the microscope. the future's defense secretary who advises the president good and send a big american land army into asia. or into the middle east or africa. should have its head examined find out what else the u.s. congress went to say about the country's actions.