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you're watching our view here's a look at the top stories british activists mark the u.s. in a pan is day with protests demanding the closure of an american base in england which is due to be a part of a star wars type missile shield they are concerned it's a step towards a self-serving american military zation of space. denmark drops down the border barriers again with customs checks designed to tackle drug smuggling and illegal immigration but it's angered. to say it violates the cornerstone of european unity . and levy an official say the arms embargo has been breached again as boats from qatar carrying weapons for the rebels are reportedly intercepted so far france is the only nation to admit supplying arms to take it off in force as. well

next r.t. discusses the missile shield plans that are driving a wedge between moscow and washington. i. the war of words on missile defense has been going on for quite some time now between russia and the us with washington saying we need powerful interceptors against a potential attack from some dangerous state usually named iran or north korea and moscow saying why do you need interceptors for weapons that those rogue states don't have but we do so it's against us so russia russians view america's missile defense plan as an attempt to reach that very precious parity principle that was said in the start treaty and now the federation of american scientists come up with a report that looks seemed to russia's concerns and i'm joined by use of bought from that very federation thank you very much for joining me dr but thank you very much for that also for what i understand russians are not against all interceptors

they are against the more advanced and the more capable ones could you expand on that well we started to study a couple of months ago to look into the technical side of what might be behind russia's concerns so there's not a tip in the west has been that russia is ideologically opposed to middle missile defense so that they're more concerned with the bases in poland and romania but we wanted to see if there's something besides that they feel perhaps poland and romania are in their sphere of influence but we wanted to see if there's actual technical concerns and what we what we found is that the phase adoptive approach to missile defense is broken up into two parts number one and number two where the low. potency interceptors the block one interceptors are on line and phases three and four where the higher speed interceptors will be brought online and are not so shows if the system is reconfigured

a little bit that it will have some ability against russian i.c.b.m. so there is some. jim of concern from from the russian side as to the technical ability in principle of the system being able to intercept russian i.c.b.m. i'd like to explain to the viewer so about the missile defense plan that we are talking about and that is now up for discussion it is the four stage plan the two faces of wage. they envision the installation of s. and three interceptors of a lower capability the last two phases of more capability and it is the last two phases that the russians and interweave poured you argue that the u.s. doesn't really need the last two phases could you expand on that well in fact. it's sort of a paradox because. even neither the first phases nor the second phases would really have an ability against rogue state i.c.b.m.'s anybody who can make.

ballistic missiles can also put decoys on the missiles to overcome the differences you can put for instance inflatable balloons that appear to the radar sensors into the. imaging sensors on the intercept vehicle as warhead so you overwhelm the system so it's easy to defeat the system and you won't be getting anything extra by going to the higher potency interceptors to block two interceptors which are due to come online after twenty years so neither the first two phases nor the second two phases will have much inherent ability. against. the rogue state threat i want to add to what you're saying and i read an excerpt from the report and it says the decision to proceed with basis three and four of the fear and that's the plan will result in an apparent paradox it says defenses that will provide little or no actual combat effectiveness but with technical and

quantity of uncertainties that will cause. russian planners to treat them as if they might work and try. and i could react by increasing their stockpiles and or ending or blocking teaching u.k. arms reductions with the united states this in turn will have far ranging implications for global security so the report in the report you make two very important points a that the effectiveness of the interceptors is arguable from a scientific point of view and b. that this could push the russians and possibly the chinese to try and restore some kind of balance by arming themselves more of these things that those arguments can be could be discarded by decision makers in washington well apparently they have already. it's sort of a puzzle because the system itself has never actually been tested under realistic conditions so it's never actually been you know for instance a salvo of missiles that incorporate countermeasures and decoys it's never really been tested against that the timing of the tests has always been known to the

intercepting so the intercept team knows exactly the trajectory that the. that the missile is incoming on and they know the exact timing so of course in the case of north korea or iran that will not be the case furthermore most seriously perhaps the most of the system is based on ships now these ships have never been tested in rough weather in fact when when the u.s. a one thousand three satellite was being intercepted a few years back it was called off for a couple of days because the weather was too rough for the for the cruisers so this is a known weakness in the system. but you know from the planners side they have to see perhaps there will be some technological surprise in the future maybe they'll be many more interceptors maybe they'll be a different administration so from the military planners in china and russia they have to pretend or plan for the worst and pretend like the system works whereas it

can in fact be easily overcome and has never been realistically. the russians have been quite persistent in forgiveness and in saying ok if it's not against us let's do it together let's build a defense shield together in europe but the response that. the response of began is always a polite no but no you know they are told yes we will cooperate but not on equal terms what do you make of me well. you know i think it's and in some ways it's a natural response because. it's hard to get full cooperation when russia is not officially part of nato but i would say even both in the u.s. and in russia the people asking for cooperation before you do. the most important thing is to make sure the system works you know you don't want to

cooperate on something that can easily be defeated by iran or north korea it's important to understand that these intercepts of the missile occur in space so there's no air resistance there so you can spread out any kind of balloons shards of metal and all of these things travel with the warhead in space because there's no resistance so you're you can deceive the defenses very simply so i would say before all the political people are asking for cooperation. go too far this should be a study of whether this system can in fact work in real combat conditions not in a very rigged test as it's been conducted today but still you know you see in the report you touch upon that technical aspect you know for russia's concerns but from what i've been covering him for what i understand the more important part of precious frustration over america's missile defense plan is that we seem to say yes

to cooperation on equal terms and. do you think. that should be part of the discussion. surely it should be part of the discussion and it should but there's a priority first to get a system that works and then you cooperate on it so. i think there's a time for cooperation but before that perhaps we can get maybe make it work yes there are no yeah exactly so we could get the technical people in russia together with the technical people in the us and we can all brainstorm on ideas. but that's not happening. so you know there's various people have proposed different systems that might work to post a lot of mit my colleague has proposed a drone based system so you'd have drones circling around north korea for instance and this would be a threat to russia of course because it's located around north korea and when they see a missile being launched they will catch it before it releases its warhead space and

take it home in on the hot exhaust coming out of. the boosting missile it's called the boost phase but apparently it's not been picked up by the pentagon and it's not being studied by anybody else so i think we need to get the technical people to cooperate once a good system is there then we can get the political people perhaps to cooperate. there is an opinion that there is hawkish mentality that flourished under the bush administration pushing for more defense spending and many say it continued under obama do you think that a costly missile defense program of arguable effectiveness could be. pushed forward by this kind of package mentality rather than green security. i mean surely the inertia in the system when the bush plan was first discarded by president obama when he came into power there was

a lot of hope that the new system would be more agreeable to the russians but now that we have actually. ambers if you look at the congressional research service reports it would be four hundred forty interceptors based on forty three ships now these are mobile platforms and that is part of the problem so instead of being less of a concern going from the bush administration to the obama administration the. this has raised all sorts of red flags in russia the new system. there's something interesting i read. the house defense bill funds and mandated the administration to conduct a study on the technical and operational visibility of space based interceptors that's from one of the papers here space based interceptors that sounds an awful lot like. plans which the american physical society concluded was a hoax but nonetheless billions of dollars were spent on research do you think that

the current missile defense program also could turn into a hole where money goes and disappears despite what the scientists are saying well it's you know space based defense has been proven to be not feasible idea because you would need so many interceptors and these would be in orbit now people have an idea that things are stationary in orbit they're not in low earth orbit they're moving very fast so they're not over any one region for very long the consequence of that is that you need many many many interceptors and for instance a whole you can create a hole in the defenses by just shooting a prior missile to get the local interceptors to to intercept one and then for the future you have a big hole in your defense that you can. that you can use to send a missile through so scientists know that why are they spending money on it i think

as far as i know there's not actually money being spent right now on developing it but there is the defense still authorized that they're studying the concept they're not actually building it as far as i know at the moment but it's definitely proven proven to be feasible idea and it's not just the american physical society various x. officers technical officers of air force u.s. air force have also looked into it and shown that it's overly expensive and it's very easy to defeat again thank you thank you very much i.

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british activists mark u.s. independence day with protests demanding the closure of an american spy base in england which is due to be a part of a star wars type of missile shield they are concerned it's a step towards a self-serving american the militarization of space. denmark drives down the border barriers again both customs checks designed to tackle drug smuggling and illegal immigration but it's angered. to say it violates the cornerstone of european unity . and levy and officials say the arms embargo has been breached again as boats from qatar carrying weapons for the rebels are reportedly intercepted so far france is the only nation to admit supplying arms to and take it off forces. so the top stories here in our he'll be back at the top of the hour as always with more updates for you the meantime and you will tell you what's happening in the world of sports.

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came from behind to beat magazine to see what makes a game has gone ahead with the gulf the nineteen year old defended nest of the world which chile responded to strike from a trophy and. now three new sports will make their limpid debut at the sochi winter games and twenty fourteen ski slopestyle snowboard slopestyle and the snowboard parallel special slalom will be included for the first time the announcement was made by the international olympic committee present role he's in durban for the i.c.c. session which on wednesday will vote on who will host the twenty eighteen winter olympics three cities bidding for that pian yang in south korea munich in germany and annecy france. on to cycling an american tire fire has posted his maiden tour de france stage win on independence day coming home first in a bunch sprint to win stage three while teammate though he shoved still holds the

leaders yellow jersey it was a relatively flat stage stretching for a couple of hundred kilometers long the atlantic ocean along with the mad red dawn riders michael de large and yours a good as were out in front for much of it but they were real dim by the peloton inside the final kilometers stage driver mark cavendish has them full stride to recall the following a crash in the closing stages and talk took up the pace on the front garments of l.a. with then turning on the power to get over the life to head for a man to live. well still celebrating his maiden wimbledon title is novak djokovic the serb enjoying a rapturous homecoming in belgrade the new world number one lapping up every minute of this is tens of thousands of fans chanting his nickname no as they gathered gathered in front of the national assembly building in downtown belgrade boisterous well coming ceremony djokovic should be rough on the dial in the final they showed off that he's done this before with the band. stage and thank everyone for the

support. the general some of tonight. because you made this day the most beautiful day of my life i will never forget this this trophy i did a-k. to you this trophy i did ek to serbia. andrei kirilenko meanwhile says russia's men could repay the women success of the upcoming basketball european championships the utah jazz forward will join the national squad for the tempest tournament in lithuania is going to be a birdie good chance of playing about ten teams in the house and called the likely twenty authority slovenia spain greece drawn many frames i mean i think you go in those most teams you know they're really good teams and they can win the championship in any given you know day so so it's tough it has to be a lot of effort you have to be pretty good preparation which started in the middle of july and i think we have a pretty full just. as everybody. white and say not rugby sevens by the vi promotes

going team have lifted the european champions cup for the fourth time in a row the moscow region side is still the only club to ever win the trophy since it began for both the daniel story. the rugby sevens european champions cup was four years old the same two teams had fought out the last three finals both of them russian the cup holders fifty eight but most korea would be their competitors from the self twenty ten domestic champions there's no better the stand around they came across each other in the samis but the didn't affect the outcome. v but moscow where will quick to break the deadlock scoring a couple of tries early in the game the russian national team skipper dmitry better off getting in no one here to give the most caribbean side if they fit in their advantage the game was completely dominated by but moscow via only let their

opponents produce a single try setting the final score of twenty two for the second semifinal so another russian team empiria face in a shell group are sending friends with both sides giving their all to when it was imperial and finally battled it out to the final letter sent earn their share of owners after beating you chris nagar and claiming third place the only that's how it came to the old russian decide there was some watching and others just learning the sport on their moves nice and once again maybe but my school we have promptly showed they had no equal in the tournament the first choice scored by aleksandr it was converted into seven points but me to put off bowling a couple more tries and conversions the cup holders took a stunning twenty two to nothing lead. it seemed overworked but

imperious used to give up proving rugby's always about fighting to the end. and sometimes their expense of injuring your opponent although but most school year was keen to stick it out in one with a final score twenty eight twenty one to stay the only big tour the european champion has ever seen so for and undisputedly the best club russia has to offer my god that those like i need to give a lot of credit to our opponents they look great throughout the entire tournament and gave it all in the finals but it's no secret that dva put most of your results very slow and go to the national team and we've got more international experience jim going to be and it will be great for the tournament to have teams from england in other countries where rugby is one of the most popular sports that most of those who took part in the event of a very tough it's more fucked up an impressive achievement by russia's top club which is no

a fourth term european champions cup winner although some tougher competition for the trophy is just a matter of time new teams are in talks to draw in next year robert burden on r.t. . yeah well done to them now we will end with some extreme sports where american lance corey has won the swatch freestyle m.x. contest in switzerland is breathtaking made a saga jungle book and said by judges as the best of the day was the fourth time at the event for the twenty one year old he's come in the top three for his previous three parents says but this time he managed to educate all his rivals to take the onus. on. spectacular stuff that's the sport's more than a couple asked. for

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