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that are driving a wedge between. washington. i . for what i understand russians are not against all trades 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 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 romania or 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 that

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 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 of the system being able to intercept russian i.c.b.m. in the report you argue that the u.s. doesn't really need the last two faces 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 the list of missiles can also put decoys in this world to overcome the defenses 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 we won't be getting anything extra by going to the higher potency interceptors to block to interest. 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 the chinese to try and restore some kind of balance by arming themselves more of 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 it's never really been tested against that the timing. has always been known to the intercepting 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 in fact when the usa one thousand three satellites was being intercepted a few years back it was called off for a couple of days because the weather was too rough 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 pretend like the system works whereas it can be easily overcome and has never been realistically tested the russians have been quite persistent in forgiveness and if it's not against us let's do it together the

response that they get is always a no 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 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 four peroration 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 all of these things travel with the warhead in space because there's no resistance so you're can deceive the defenses very simply so i would say before all the political

people asking for cooperation go too far there 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 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 him for what i understand the more important part of precious frustration over american missile defense plan is that to say yes to cooperation on. terms and. do you think that should be part of the discussion well surely it should be part of the discussion and it 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 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 but that's not happening. so. you know there's various people have proposed different systems that might work for postal office and i see my colleague has proposed a drone based 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 around north korea and when they see a missile being launched they will catch it before it releases its warhead and space then they can hone in on the hot exhaust coming out of. the boosting missile it's called the boot 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 it's a good system is there then we can get the political people perhaps to cooperate in talks about there is an opinion that there is this. mentality that flourished under

the bush administration pushing for more defense spending and many 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 rather than security threats. i mean surely there is 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 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 the. this is raised all sorts of red flags in russia the new system there's something

interesting i read. the house defense bill and it funds unmandated to administration to go. the study on the technical and operational visibility of space based interceptors that's from one of the papers. 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 he said 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 a 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 bill authorized there's 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 it's overly expensive and it's very easy to defeat again i.

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hello welcome to the sports nearest the headlines. please release me is trying to call a stab at science family reasons for his second request to leave manchester city. while a split second to delavan his wins the fourth stage of the tour de france opposite edge and final sprint with a better convert or. major mystery time when a tiger woods pulls out of next week's british open do you train leg injury. first a football striker cost have decided 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 copper america but he claims he can no longer live in the north of england without his two daughters and the twenty seven year old says he now needs to live in a place where they could adapt to joining city from rivals manchester united in two thousand and nine to fourteen million dollars he had asked for a transfer last december before withdrawing his request it's the city will now want

to around eighty million dollars for the forward yourself ones who threw away just the three hundred thousand dollars. they will city have confirmed the signing of defender garth clichy from austin all the twenty five year old has penned 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 the left back position with alex on the color of. me meanwhile drew a year ago i 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 proved you took a first half lead you by attack broke down jose paolo got there are latching on to a lot of good running down the length i think i see you still you are at the one from the back of the lines and just before half time there was suarez it's. i am still so i have more chances to go on to win but squandered

opportunities in one morning finished in game you see. i thought it chilly here topped the great part of a came from behind to beat mexico to warn the mexicans went ahead after a looping header from nineteen year old defender nestor at our home in the first half but chile responded out of the great. equaliser through esteban but it is managed to stubborn rebound to the corner. i have no doubt found the winner with this bullet head so to want to cheerlead that's the point i can see why the press and the next round mexico need a win against peru to keep their hopes alive. now sepp blatter 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 held

a closed door talks with both zimbabwean president robert mugabe and prime minister morgan trying to get i asked the fee for chief returned to stand with the government for the first time since last year's world cup but also visited a local women's football match as well as construction sites for new pitches the seventy five year old swiss was reelected as fifa supreme when last month made an ongoing saga of corruption allegations while in harare he pledged that the people initiative holds firm to invest seventy million dollars in african football even though thoughts are to fend off the critics. and inside the india executive committee there were people in our executive committee saying now again he gives all to africa only to africa by the way the gave also to the orders 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 have been seen here in

sunday's team trial twice fell behind because of chain problems and a puncture but he shrugged off those problems to catch up with the palace and and pace that accomplice or the spanish three time champion came up short by a mere ten centimeters in a dramatic final sprint is the most laps for the state into the steep climb at the end of this remains one second behind through push off 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 mid may the american played just one eye holes and his world ranking has now stick to seventeenth australian brendan jones were replaced with the sandwich golf course and can start on july the fourteenth. now aside news is coming from finland where former cross-country skiing great make

a millionaire has been found dead at his home in the town of call color the finn was only forty one and police say they did not suspect any crime was committed really lare one in a limb pick gold at the nine hundred ninety eight winter games in not going there he 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 diapering 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 tennis star now that joke about it was greeted by thousands of fans after he returned to serbia following sunday's triumph at wimbledon their world number one was lapping up every minute as tens of thousands of fans chanted his nickname no les they gathered downtown in his native belgrade at a boisterous welcome ceremony. on the dolly four sets in the final his first victory in six attempts over the spanish as a grand slam been had also won this year's australian open the twenty four year old

showed off a few dance moves as he performed on stage and thanked everyone for their support. well if much of the q. just goes to jock itch for his heroics in london another star also show on the grass courts of the all england club eighteen year old pronounced timex reached his maiden grandson quarter final and the australia number one is next aiming to help his national team edged closer to their 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 claimed the trophy twenty eight times before the three novello of being relegated four years ago. that's definitely a big call i'm sure all of us here would eventually. turn to hopefully we can just get through this storm. we have little to do. with that in the future when it comes

to those situations where a few months. you need a good match as well on the. back from injury and obviously i think for australians davis cup is a lot to be back in the grave and that's obvious if you go on. well meanwhile it didn't rain but it poured at the latest stage of the russian touring car championship as showers and cheer defending champion crashed and slid in second spot in the overall standings started from poll of nation enough that i would have to retire even before it became west wing in early kirshner session he returned only for the second race to settle the seventh. relinquish his overall lead the muscovite was overtaken by eventual six on the front of the leader also badly damaged in say outs but the race was stopped after that and he was awarded maximum points and full of went on to win the second drive session in a different car you're a seventy two point cushion at the top four more stages will follow for the end of

the season you know. and finally to rugby sevens where there is a sunni and they on the european champions cup moscow region side v.v. a patmos covielle have won the trophy for the fourth straight time since the tournament began four years ago but the onion 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 fifty eight but most korea would be their competitors from the self twenty ten domestic champions you cross another the stone around they came across each other in the sammis but the didn't affect the outcome. maybe but moscow where will quick to break the deadlock scoring a couple of tries early in the game the russian national team skippered me to put off getting in no one here to give the most a region such a fate in the advantage the game was completely dominated by it but must go 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 near a shell representing france with both sides giving their all to when it was imperial finally battled it out to the final letter said earn their share of honors after beating you chris nagar then claiming third place in the end that's how it came to the old russian decider with some watching and others just learning the sport on their moons knees and once again maybe but must call the of promptly showed they had no equal in the tournament the first choice scored by alexandria if it was converted into seven points but me to put off going a couple more tries in conversions the cup holders took a stunning twenty two to nothing lead. it seemed over but in

pure refused to give up proving rugby is always about fighting to the end. and sometimes the exploits of injuring your opponent although but most korea was keen to stick it out and won with a final score twenty eight twenty one to stay the only big tour the european champions cup has ever seen so four and undisputedly the best club russia has to offer my god 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 your results baseline for the national team and we've got more international experience. it would 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 opponents will fuck up an 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 draw in next year. robert jordan on r.t.e. . and that's often supposed to ask.