go largest country in. the surveys of. course have been trying. to teach the janitor. where did it take them. thanks for joining us this is r.t.e. live from moscow top stories now this hour activists grow more vocal in their opposition to a covert u.s. military sites in northern england inspired by the reagan era star wars project saying that they have a right to know what's going on there. and. the shutters are up in denmark as the country passes strict new laws and border controls which have already caused anger from its european neighbors who say it might breach agreements on visa free travel . and libyan officials say they intercepted two ships carrying belgian made weapons

for the rebels and validation of a un involved on arms trafficking to the war torn country. club about to one another what they printed in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime we discuss the missile shield plans that are driving a wedge between moscow and washington that's in our interview next i'm not. from what i understand russians are not against all interceptors they are against a 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 the narrative in the west has been russia's 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 under spear of influence but we

wanted to see if there's actual technical concerns what we found is that the phase adaptive 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 online and phases three and four are the higher speed interceptors will be brought online and our analysis 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 legitimate concern from from the russian side as to the technical ability in principle off the system being able to intercept russian i.c.b.m. interweave or do you argue that the u.s. doesn't really need the last two phases could you expand on that it's sort of a paradox because. even neither of 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 in the missile to overcome the defenses you

could 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 we won't be getting anything extra by going to the higher potency interceptors to to block. which are due to come online after twenty eighteen so neither the first two phases nor the second two phases will have much inherent ability against the rogue state threat you make two very important points that the effectiveness of the interceptors is arguable from a scientific point of view and b. that this could push the russians and possibly take 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 you know for instance a salvo of missiles that incorporate countermeasures and we go it's never really been tested against that the timing of the tests has always been known to the intercept team so the intercept team knows exactly the trajectory 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 or in fact the u.s. a one ninety 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 crews there 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 pretend like the system works whereas it can

be easily overcome and has never been realistically tested russians have been quite persistent in forgiveness and saying ok if it's not against us let's do it together the response i get is always a polite no no you know they are told yes we will cooperate but not on equal terms. what do you make i mean i think it's 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 the fourth aeration before you do that 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 and 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 in 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 very rigged tests as it's been conducted today still you know you see in the report you touch upon a technical term for russia's concerns. but from what i've been covering the and from what i understand the more important kind of precious frustration over america's missile defense that we can say yes to on it terms and. do you think that should be part of the discussion let's surely it should be part of the discussion should but you know 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 together you know yes 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 but post a lot on my team my colleague has proposed a drone base system so you'd have drones circling the north korea for instance and this would be a threat to russia of course because it's located. north korea and when they see their missiles being launched they were captured before it releases the warhead and space when they could home in on the hot exhaust coming out of. you know the boosting this so it's for the boost phase the front but apparently it's not been picked up by the pentagon there it's not being studied by anybody else so i think

we need to get the technical people to cooperate once the good system is there then we can get the political people perhaps to cooperate so there's an opinion that there is this hawkish mentality that flourished under the bush administration pushing for more defense spending and when you say it continues under obama do you think that a costly missile defense program of arguable effectiveness could be pushed forward by this kind of hawkish mentality by the bank real security threats. oh i mean surely there is inertia in the system when the bush plan was first discarded 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 actual numbers 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. this is raise all sorts of red flags in russia the new system there's something interesting i read. the house the fence failed and it funds and mandated big ministration to conduct the 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 reagan's. science which the american physical society concluded was a hoax but nonetheless billions of dollars for strength and research he said that the current myself offense program also could turn into a hole where money goes and disappears despite what the scientists are saying well if you have 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 intercept that 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 a defense bill authorized 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 a feasible idea and it's not just the american physical society various x.

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i'll have more on this story and other developments in the minutes from now in the meantime the latest happenings in sports. hello welcome to the sports news and the headlines. please release me is trying to call us about science how many reasons for his second request to leave manchester city. was split second fiddle evans winter for slater the tour de france edge and final sprint with a better convert or. major mystery time when a tiger woods pulls out of next week's british open to train leg injury. the first book called strike a car last have a society family reasons for making his second transfer request in eight months for english f.a. cup winners manchester city the argentina star is currently playing for his country in the proper america actually playing he can only live in the north of england for

that this year daughters and the twenty seven year old says he now needs to live in a place where they can do that see tethers join city for rivals manchester united in two thousand and nine to forty million dollars he had asked for a transfer last december before withdrawing his request the city will now want to around eighteen million dollars for the forward yourself while he's away just three hundred thousand dollars. and meanwhile city have confirmed the signing of defender garth usually from austin over twenty five to spend a four year deal worth being thought to be around eleven million dollars the france player become city's first signing of the summer test a left back position with alex on the color of the brain meanwhile drew and you're a guy have drawn one one in their right mind game as the copper america your goal you reached the semifinals at last summer's world cup with the favorites but it was proven to play first half lead you by a tax break down there's a paolo got there are latching on to a lot going on in the room i think but since i'm still you're at the one in the

back of the lines it just before half time limit suarez it's. i. had more chances to go on the wing but it's squandered opportunities and one morning initial. deep sea. i thought it's chilly who took the great part of a cave from behind to beat mexico to warn the mexicans went ahead after a leaping header from nineteen year old defended nestor at apple in the first half but still responded after the break. he's called isaac as the bank but it is managed to starving rebound after the call and. i doubt the winner with this bullet head so he wanted to leave. it's why the press and the next round mexico need a win against peru to keep their hopes alive. and step latter has reiterated feed

his commitment to pour millions of dollars into the development of football in africa the president of the sport's governing body was speaking in zimbabwe after meeting top local officials blatter health closed door talks with both zimbabwean president robert mugabe and me is that we're going to try to gear i as a fee for chief return to sponsor the governments or the first time since last year's world cup but also visit a local remains football match as well as construction sites for new pitches the seventy five year old swiss was reelected as the supreme only last month in ongoing saga of corruption allegations flying ferrari a pledge that with the permission to hold firm to invest seventy million dollars in african football you can learn but that to fend off the critics. and inside the people in the executive committee there were people in our executive committee saying now again the gives all to africa or little africa by the way

we gave also approve the orbits a little bit less but the seventy million still went to africa cycling now. and australian all rounder could tell evans has won the fourth stage of the tour de france just ahead of defending champion alberto contador and then seen here in sunday's team trial twice fall behind because of chain problems and the puncture but he shrugged off those problems to catch up with the palace in place of the congo or the spanish three time champion came up short by a mere ten centimeters in a dramatic final sprint mostly flat for the state into the steep climb at the end of the remains one second behind still push out of norway in the overall standings . golf now and unsurprisingly former world number one tiger woods has confirmed he will miss this month's british open because of his ongoing leg injury the thirty five year old has not played competitively since suffering a recurrence of the problems in his left leg at the players' championship in late may the record player because neither holes in his world ranking has now said to seventeenth australian brendan jones will replace with the sandwich golf course

open starts on july the thirteenth. i sad news is coming from finland where former cross-country skiing great nico millionaire has been found dead at his home in the town of coca-cola the finn was only forty one and police say they did not suspect any crime was committed malaria won an olympic gold at the one nine hundred ninety eight winter games in nagano it was also the four time world champion across three cross country events but his was a checkered career after he was caught up in the doping scandal picked up a two year ban last year he admitted to using the blood booster e.p.o. back in the ninety's. well elsewhere to understand how that joke which was greeted by thousands of fans after he returned to serbia following sunday's triumph that wimbledon the new world number one was lapping up every minute as tens of thousands of fans chanted his nickname no later they gathered downtown in his

native belgrade the boisterous welcome ceremony took a bitch meet rafael nadal in four sets in the final his first victory six of times over the spanish as a grand slam so i've been also won this year's australian open twenty four year old showed off a few dance moves as he performed with the band on stage and thanked everyone for their support. well if much of the q. just goes to get rich for his heroics in london another star also shown the grass roots of the all england club eighteen year old bernard tomic reached his maiden grandson quarter final and the australian number one is next aiming to help his national team edged closer to the former davis cup glory former world number one lleyton hewitt is also part of the team the aussies are in beijing ahead of their tie against underdogs china this weekend where the winner will move into september's playoffs for a slot in the world group australia have trained the training twenty eight times before have been on the low i think relegated four years ago. that's definitely

a big call sure all this year would eventually. come to hopefully we could just get through this storm. and you know if we could in the future really comes to those choices for a few months. even the good matches well on the. injury . i think for australians there is no means a lot to be there in great numbers if you go away the most. well meanwhile it didn't rain but it poured at the latest stage of the russian sure in-car championship and showers and cheer defending champion make crashed and slid in some spot in the overall standings but got started from poland meeting up with our two retired even before it became us all in the early christian concession he returned only for the second race and it's just that the sudden. relinquish his overall lead the muscovites was overtaken by eventual takes on the form of the leader also badly

damaged to say out much the race was stopped after that and he was awarded maximum points from off were to win the second prize session in a different car during a seventy two point cushion at the top four more stages we're following for the end of the season in october. and finally to rugby sevens where there's a familiar name on the european champions cup moscow region side v.v. a at risk of year have won the trophy for the full straight time since the tournament began four years ago but for the now reports. 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 to be with must korea to be their compadres from the cells twenty ten the mess the champ turns you chris mother the stem around they came across each other in the sammis but that didn't affect the outcome. the way it will quick to break the bad luck scoring

a couple of tries early in the game the russian national team skippered neatly put off getting in no one here to give the most korean site a faith in the advantage the game was completely dominated by put muskogee it took only let their opponents produce a single try setting the final score of twenty two for the second semifinal so another russian team empiria faced their share were presenting friends with both sides giving their all to when it wasn't period finally belted out to the final letter said earn their share of owners of their billing eucharist number ten claiming third place the a is this how it came to the old russian decider with some watching and others just learning the sport only ramon's knees and once again maybe but most korea promptly showed they had no equal in the tournament the first choice scored by alexander he

was converted into seven points by me to put off pulling a couple more tries in from russians because of holders took a stunning twenty two to nothing lead. it seems over here refused to be proving rugby's always whining to the end. and sometimes the expense of injuring your opponent although put most korea was keen to stick it out and won with a final score twenty eight twenty one to stay the only victor the european champions has ever seen so for undisputedly the best club russia has to offer that doesn't 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 us does baseline for the national team and we've got more international experience on the field 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 advanced are very tough opponents of thought and impressive achievement by russia's top club which is no a four time european champions cup winner although some tougher competition for the trophy is just a matter of time new teams are in talks to join next year. r.t. . i wasn't supposed to ask.

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