he. says. good to have you with this is this is our commission live from moscow top stories this hour activist group more vocal in their opposition to the u.s. military in northern england and the reagan era star wars project saying they have a right to know what's going on there and. the shuttles are up in denmark as the country pauses strict new laws on border controls which have already caused anger from its european neighbors who say it might breach agreements on visa free travel . nato's on the floor of the claims that punish of the un's libyan.

gadhafi loyalists intercepted a shipment of belgian made weapons intended for rebels. brings up that for the moment. when fifteen minutes from now the discusses the plans that are driving a wedge between moscow and washington and our specialty. from what i understand russians are not against france they are against the more advanced and the more capable guys could you expand on that well we started the study a couple of months ago to look into the technical side with 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 is something besides that they feel perhaps poland and romania are in their spirit 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 black one interceptors are online 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 but 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. 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 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 can put

for instance inflatable balloons that appear to be 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 a 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 a that the fact that most 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 if 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 the sol both missiles that incorporate countermeasures and decoys 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 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 cruiser 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

in fact be easily overcome and has never been realistically tested the russians have been quite persistent in for years and saying ok 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 and all of these things travel with the warhead in space because there's no resistance so you're going deceived 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 rigid test as it's been conducted today still you know in the current you touch upon a technical term for russia's concerns. but from what i've been covering and from what i understand the more important part of freshness frustration over americans missile defense that we can say yes to on. terms and. do you think that should be part of this question well surely it should be part of the discussion should 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 post a look on my team my colleague has proposed a drone base system so you don't have drones circling around north korea for instance and this would be a threat to russia of course because it's located in north korea and when they see a missile being launched they were captured before it releases the floor headed space then they could home in on the hot exhaust coming out of the you know 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 good system is there then we can get the political people perhaps to cooperate that's a but there's 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 green 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 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 and mandated ministration thing that the study on the technical and operational visibility of space based interceptors that's from one of the space based interceptors that sounds an awful lot like reagan's. science the american physical society conclude it was a hoax but nonetheless billions of dollars for spent on research he thinks that the current myself defense program will also turn into a hole where money goes and disappears despite what the scientists are saying well if you have space based difference 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 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 and then you have for the future you have a big hole in your defense that you can. but 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 and 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 non feasible idea and it's not just the american physical society various x.

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top stories this hour naughty activists grow more vocal in their opposition to a covert u.s. military sites in northern england installed by the reagan era star wars project saying they have a right to know what's going on that. the shuttles are up in denmark as the country tosses strict new laws on border controls which have already caused governments european neighbors he said might be to greenland some visa free travel. nato's on the far of the claims that violated the un's and libyan arms embargo as gadhafi known as safe they intercepted a shipment of belgian made weapons intended for rebels. more those stories and other developments in less than fifteen minutes and in the meantime sports news is

next with kate. hello and thank you for joining me for the sports news at least our top story is. photo finish cadavers wins the full state of the tour de france after a final sprint with defending champion that or contador. while major mysteries are when a tiger woods pulls out of the british due to an ongoing like injury. and please release me strike it cost test sites family reasons for his second request to leave manchester city. first to cycling under strain or radical doubt evans has won the full stage of the tour de france just ahead of defending champion alberto contador evans seen here in sunday's team trial twice fell behind because of chain problems and the puncher but he shrugged off those problems to catch up with allison and they said that contador the spanish three time champion k.-rock short by

a mere ten centimeters in a dramatic fine sprint is a mental block for the state and a steep climb at the end evans remains one second behind the 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 because of the five year old has not played competitively since suffering a recurrence of the problems in his left leg at the players' championship in midnight where the american plate just knowing holds his world ranking has nothing to seventeen's strain brendan jones will replace woods at the sound of golf course and starts on july the fourteenth. moving on to football and striker cost of a society of family reasons for making his second transfer request in eight months from english f.a. cup winners match to city the argentina star is currently playing for his country and the copper america let me tell you something you don't live in an old. and with

that his two daughters and the twenty seven year old says he now needs to live in a place where they can get back to join city for rivals manchester united in two thousand and nine a forty million dollars and had asked for a transfer last december for the tour his request is now some city want to around eighty million dollars for the who are also trans weekly wages three hundred thousand dollars. well meanwhile city have confirmed the signing of defending galaxy she from arsenal twenty five year old has penned a four year deal for a fee to around eleven million dollars france player become city's first signing of the summer contest left back ization the six and a quarter of. blatter has reiterated fief 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 that's held a closed door talks with both zimbabwean president robert mugabe and prime minister morgan tsvangirai ago returned to south africa for the first time since last cup

last 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 he first you prevent last month made an ongoing saga of corruption allegations and one in harare pledge that the thief for initiative holds invest seventy billion dollars in african football even though that's a lot to fend off the critics. inside the people in the executive committee there were people in our executive committee saying. again he gives all to africa to africa by the way we gave also it would be orders a little bit less but the simple deal millions they went to africa and another thought when you syria are giants into man has unveiled the new coach and local specialist john pietro guess what he is the man to take up the reins on a two year deal after several big names turn down the offer the fifty three year old was sacked as genoa boss last never. still becomes into sports management in

just over a year following jones a radio rap album eaters and leonardo. restoration ask whether if i want to take a food you know it's a squad which hasn't lost anyone with all the important players it's a team two years ago once everything we did last year was a lesson from the testing season in terms of results were anything better was of course to be expected but this can be used as a force for motivation. now some sad news from finland where former cross-country skiing great weekend miller has been found dead at his home in the town of color but then was only forty one and police say they do not suspect any crime was committed really lare one and a little bit gold at the nine hundred ninety eight winter games and not going to 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 a dating scandal and picked up a two year ban last year he admitted to using the blood booster e.p.o.

back in the ninety's. tennis now and modesty seems to be another quality for china's top champion ali as the french open winner said she didn't want her life to change because of a new superstar status it's up to shine was number six a whole month before belatedly celebrating roland garros idol in beijing hundreds of fans turned if you catch a glimpse of their harrowing twenty nine year old distance by her husband became the first ever asian claim in france or in paris she failed to follow that up with a strong performance at wimbledon crushing out in the second round had done enough to make sure the luck of the game china needs to force on high and to field interest. most sports now and twice formula one champion fernando alonso is our brita head of what could prove to be the litmus test for his ferrari team as the spaniard hopes for a good outing at the british grand prix this weekend it's good that you have recovered in the last three races having gone to start the season they are hardly favorites at silverstone as eight of the teams competing are based in england

thinking its way through and second place mcclaren in addition alonzo and his brazilian teammate philippe massa produced a miserable time here finishing fifth respectively it was worse before writer for two years but alonzo who is ninety nine points behind overall leader sebastian. you travel it's time. to. work i tried in principle for the layout and. produced pics of the circlip. i think it will be good to know who are who we can do and we need to make sure that we need to be prepared for any circumstances when a super three come or a newcomer change police or service every day and believe that we're ready to push great go and i think here we had our butt in some new close call because we had hoped i would perform offensive as well meanwhile it didn't rain but it poured at the latest stage of the russian touring car championship and showers into defending

champion crashed and straight into. also never all standings started from cola these numbers are not to return even cain was. the no concession he returned i was the second race to six seconds. before relinquishes overlies the muscovite was i would take the bisexual women and son the son of the new leader also badly damaged to say that but the race was stopped after the last was awarded maximum points out of to win the second dry session in a different car in seventy two the time for more stages will follow the end of the season in october. and finally relations between estonians and russians living in a society have been strained over the last decade however one man has come up with another way to try to get the two communities interacting again so the sport which in some portly reports. yes. yes. you interior stone you

may russian english which any english bellew don't like this man john shade of all major in the british army he's been living in town in for the last twenty years has been trying to introduce the news to greg be sure you of this bullshit nation we set up. tigers multi-sport. we know get a stone in a russian school where there was three balls three different ball game. on this year's our first year. hopefully next year we will continue however the main part of this project is to try and get the russians in the stonies playing together something which unfortunately is an all too rare occurrence unless you get children between nine and eleven meeting each other regularly not want to see here every week. it's not going to happen. but to charge it once or one of seventeen or

eighteen makes this go on for. the first time obviously. there's going to be silliness so you must get. another important scientific project is to try and teach your children the dangers of drinking and taking drugs in two thousand and nine a staggering one point two percent to be sown in population or one in eighty three thousand people contract each id who are going to children involved in sports believes he's getting the kid something to believe in and keep him occupied while i have been a number of success stories over the last few years but over the last fifteen years we've brought over forty boys and girls of universities in your. we if we had it. so you know that is for us success is not about great rugby. you know we will develop a pool of people with developmental one boy who is looking to follow in their

footsteps as young as twelve he said flatly russian but speaks fluent dystonia and goes to new so new language school he's only started to play rugby over the past couple of weeks but he says he really enjoys it as it gives him something to do during his pretty months of summer holidays. well. there's not a girly his life as fun to this simple yourselves improvement has been so quick he's already been named captain of a talent tigers touch rugby team however the boys could have a picture in store for them in the autumn john is trying to organize the tours of rugby heartland of england to play some nights in gloucester no less the biggest piece kids will gain is good interaction between their suspected communities which will hopefully lead to stone you know russian children playing peacefully together richard on both we don't see turn in. the sport.

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