actually fueled by spending. up next artie's sophie shevardnadze speaks with former nato chief george robertson she caught up with the man who is now an oil executive on the sidelines of the global policy forum in jaroslav all to get lord robertson's take on nato's current direction. george roberts thank you very much for being with us again two years later. military organization now and you're on the board of one of the world's top energy companies are there any similarities between energy markets and the war theater. well we we both operate a global marketplace we're dealing with global issues was politics. everything

whether it's national politics all international politics so i didn't leave completely behind but i did need to because one of the things i didn't need to i wanted to do it was through established control ations with russia and to bring russia much more to the mean streets of west so. in russia for russian companies. joy well that's what i was going to ask you did you have to just find russia once you've joined. well b.p. is a very interesting is a very interesting company and it doesn't conform to either russian studio tapes or a waste of oil companies to do. so joint venture between the company and four of the richest men in russia to the individuals. it's a huge company a successful company very profitable company they come to his world so there are

similarities about how your. deputy chairman of the board. and nato i was the leader of the alliance that is the value one set what i will remember most from my time in nature. it's meeting children to the countries that meant to moscow to care for a decade later do you think this children live in a better world for instance if we take libya how come there been so much child casualty in libya during the help or racialist these children do to really live in a better world a more prosperous world and a world outside chile three years of a lot of the fear as the previous generations the world war a localized war so there is no doubt that keeping prosperity of the world has improved the chances of living and the quality of life that's what we were seeing in the arab spring was

a younger generation and remember that something like sixty percent of the middle eastern population is under the age of still saying they wanted a bit of that action as well they wanted a bit of that prosperity a bit of the enjoyment people don't want to see all the g seven i don't want to take the ships by and large they want to. get want to have a host of want of a nice family they want the children to go to schools and that's a huge events all desire whether whether it's don't turn. don't turn more school or don't and one. no i don't think that there were large numbers of children casualties. came into play i knew of the targeting is done in eight and it is not very very carefully if there were casualties it is because colonel gadhafi put those children and those civilians in to deliberately into danger and that of course has happened before and yet if you were head of nato today is there anything

that you would to differently in libya no i wouldn't have done anything different i think secretary general rasmussen has done a very difficult job highly successful because no one nor nato troops on the ground . all it was all done in either of the population with themselves to the lead cell of a transitional government you know made the office of the refuge to those who wanted to leave because of their death and i think in retrospect although it strains need to to the living in a chilly was a very good operation we should leave a lasting legacy and libya for the people that they will welcome here also a member of the british parliament are you concerned that the british military has set foot on another nation's soil while the british military none of the nato countries set foot on libyan soil that may have been a small number of people there giving something vice but by and large it was done

by the libyans themselves and it was done with the backing of the arab league and it was done with the backing of the un security council and so i think this is her template of hope these things should happen if there is a necessity to do it there was no need for any old say intervention is in the people did it themselves no need for military intervention in egypt the people did it themselves but in libya you had a desperate despicable dictator with a chart a great coat of mourning though his own people who were undoubtedly have done it if we hadn't taken action but then why don't we try to do the same thing in syria look at the casualties that we have that we take. well because you can't intervene everywhere doesn't mean that you shouldn't intervene with you can't you know the borders and the arab league resolution there was a u.n. security council resolution either the beast things apply at the woman to what's

happening in syria but also regime at the end of the study just as it is in iran and it may take some time to work code and there are other lena's by which you could counter the economic political diplomatic and house but i would say at the scrum tricks well. we could prepare for the next surprise and keep all of the weapons available there with one of last resort has the military pay for the new use economic pole used to put my to use political influence church cheveley of trying to protect people military action was only taken libya because gadhafi threatened his own people to threaten those who would rebel to be wait. but you know what the cynics would say to that they would say that if you dig deep enough at the heart of every war there is oil well the cynics will always say that i'm a cynic even where there is no war like c.l.o. you on where we intervened on bosnia where there's not

a touch of oil we're told me two tags so you know the cynics out here are almost certain to inventing the two great show the afghanistan one of those normal sierra leone and kosovo and bosnia all of these along with examples that come to the top of my head so it's not appropriate oil with this case it was about saving the population of benghazi from a ruthless brutal dictator quite so now we have the national transitional council in libya that says that they don't want any foreign troops in their country can they install peace without the help of the international military force i think the we can do that because they very chilly got the reins of power and they thought it all through they've got sensible people in charge some of them have experienced the government under come did i think. some of them have been forced out of the country but nor who the country is run and so we've got to be able to give them hill will be required not force it on. but be there in order to kill the transition from

a brutal dictatorship to a civilized productive and hopefully a prosperous country now you know the question on everyone's mind is our live in oil capacity is safe and when. will they be restored to their pre-war level all i knew is that the transitional authority is looking carefully at. both the infrastructure and the supply routes for the libyan oil they're saying it might take a year to eighteen months to get things going because there has been some damage of the will be sabotaged by the outgoing regime but at the moment so the arabia is making up for all of the b. is oil output but if they get it back to normal then that will produce revenue for the for libya that will be very very useful in the reconstruction and i know that he has allowed b.p. to resume operations in libya just

a few hours ago what have you done to secure the libyan b.p. assets now with the transitional national council that are obviously missions going to libya at the present moment the transitional council is dealing with these things a joke or some other companies like b.p. or another company that i'm at the board will be watching carefully to see how that isis had been protected but the main priority and b.p. was to protect the people who work for b.p. at that time when this far as we can see none of the work affected by by the internal turmoil that was going on but that the priority is to stabilize libya and the oil will be part of that stabilize ation and reconstruction now back in two thousand and one didn't you know that the war on terror would take such a long time. we all hoped that we would be able to deal with the perpetrators of this atrocity quickly but i think you know for the truth to. now when you've got

something. that they that desperate you know it's not criminal it wasn't going to get to the people who were behind it you know and it's only a matter of months. zama but a lot of the. rough justice the case of justice that he made today and so many people before but you know we didn't think that he would go on for ten years but we said at the time. the campaign against terrorism would have to warn for as long as was. a somewhat bin ladin's elimination was a huge factor in this war on terror do you think at this point it's nearing its end i hope that al qaeda has had its head cut off that are saying is that a much weaker of the way that it was i think those are growing. in countries where he used to get support and court. tactics of people that might be the future and

hopefully we'll clear of responsibility to make sure that they can't feed all the resentment of a young. middle east because that's where the problem started and now the heads being cut off from all this that it remains to be seen how much of the monster still wriggling out of his life towards robertson thank you very much for the. wealthy british style sun. rising. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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hello welcome to sport on our does he come and see a live from the russian capital with me or i'm on costs for plenty of ahead but first the headlines. last gasp points call those grabs a stoppage time equaliser as the mega rich whites come from behind to draw at home to set it. back in the army midfielders. and alexandre said could brits earn as it says god get set to host it sally and giants answer melanne in the champions league. and side by side former world number one golfer tiger woods teams up with new caddie joel after breaking his fourteen year or so c.h.l. with. williams. football first though where sammy well it's all scored his third goal for big spending on g n a sather russians are being against the chechen sides

and it's a draw the visiting sides open the scoring early in the first half when the sounders of len called rushed into the panels area after a long frost bite live on it because they dribble through two defenders and the goalkeeper before sending the ball into the far left corner putting terry one up in a minute it's it and she just six minutes however to equalize a lot of cross rebound off mubarak was soon followed to samuel that's all that's practically going in front of the keeper of the star striker making no mistake sending the ball into the net with his left foot one one was how the first half and did and that's how it stayed for most of the second forty five minutes as well and she desperately wanted to win in front of their home fans by their desire to sack and press on for a winner left them exposed at the back let in sara with just two minutes of normal time left. substitute. lost a friend half the length of the field practically on restricted and farrakhan's

make the sport to watch the visitors with almost no time left on the clock perhaps they thought it was all over but it wasn't just yet what was to be a pulsating dramatic dramatic finish alcides the bar of the super bowl was credited with another assist following his near perfect cross into the box for charlotte's to head the ball into the net but all eyes are at that one minute to stop the slide to two was how it finished over there in up which probably. now the midfield you always are on sausage and alexandre's sound you could be back in the squad for injury hit says scott moscow as the former us when i was prepared to host lana in their second group the match in the champions league on tuesday they are men are second in that group after say doods and be a bag a brace as they came from two goals down to the old suits who had lived in their opener while twenty ten what is enter are bringing up the rear following a shock one nil defeat by the turkish side problems for at the center of the south

and giants have since replaced coach john carroll gets to meet with cloud ready airy but says scott boss now needs most he doesn't think the change at the helm will affect the game. you have seen you will get them well we don't think it will make much of a difference for us if we should be relying on no old form in the first place intermission have changed their head coach but the top level players are still there so regardless of which leads them into the game any team in the world will find it challenging to play them. meanwhile inside will be with valves and filling show playmaker wesley snyder for the clash in moscow the holding midfielder missed last saturday's three one triumph and belong yet with a thigh injury that result was intersperse victory this season and handed claudio ranieri a winning start at the club well enter are also missing midfielder is a young stock which he and defender maicon through injuries and their former portugal star louis de gaulle is bracing himself for

a certain test to sky is better than i was because he was never one point of view. points so. we have to get a good result tear through to have their story to continue to competition pretty tough because you come from three close. and you're playing all of them so to be perfect. meanwhile magister united will host group c. leaders basel and choose their united through one wanted been in their opening match and now have major injury problems up front and into fences with wayne rooney javier hernandez and they might be a bit as she among six players who ruled out meeting striker michael owen is a likely to start alongside him is harbor boss off sir alex ferguson side have reached the final in three of the past four years but the coach insists it's not a great time for his side as they've won just one of those three finals.

well a rugby is set to get a massive boost in russia and not just because of the country's debut appearance at the world cup sevens has now become and the limping sport and so is set to be played in schools across the nation richard bond portfolio caught up with one player who has overcome the odds to be a success in both codes. he may be enjoying five star hotels and first class training facilities at this world cup however this hasn't always been the case for russia's speedy winger dragging us through boarding cross and our he was a talented wrestler in his youth but eventually decided to switch to rugby in his early teens on the advice of his brother vo he didn't have it easy in his formative years. when i started playing rugby the facilities were non-existent we would train at a local school in the basement however it was full of rubbish and we would have to spend hours trying to clean it up and then the coaches arrived and we were allowed

to use the peach to train on it was only after that the things started to improve right here has already made an impression here in new zealand scoring his first ever world cup try against italy while he's frail fans with his express pace this is obviously a dream come true for the twenty five year old and he says the whole of his hometown is following his every move because it will talk unless you me everyone which is our games not only my family but the whole of my hometown everyone calls us to congratulate us even though we're not doing well in all of our matches it's a great achievement to be here for the country for the national team and for the coaches all of us through shows not a rarity in the russian team in that sevens has played a major part in this development as a player he regularly completes for the national side or establishing themselves as a major force in the shortened game being able to compete and beat the likes of england and france on

a regular basis. sevens really helps your development in the fifteen man game as it teaches you to see the pitch differently you need a completely different set of skills and sevens so it comes in handy because it's pretty tough here for vladimir who moved across and i ask this here to play as club rugby leaving behind his wife the two year old son garamond in crosstown dar some four thousand kilometers away. he'll get to see his family in a couple of weeks however he's extremely committed to playing him a national team and desperately wants to help his country improve in both sevens fifteen month game. three to altie. new zealand. golf now and fourteen time major winner tiger woods has finally found the man who could help him return to his former glory as the former world number one has hired joe as his new caddy woods surprisingly fired his previous back man see williams in july after

a thirteen year partnership and the thirty five year old american has now affiliated himself with who is best known for his long term association with another former world number one fred couples and while woods has been without a title for over two years and has slipped to fiftieth in the world rankings since the much publicized revelations about his private life and subsequent divorce and his ongoing leg injuries earlier this season. finally the russian basketball championship will start in a couple of weeks but says scott have already wrapped up the first trophy as the army man. at the annual gone we'll speak up. has more. traditionally three european powerhouses come to the russian capital to take part in the government's kick up alongside the host has cut the gears from live through any empennage analogous of greece and turkish side for a new march or two to the court to do battle for the trophy the red and blues cloud

out is sixty nine sixty seven when again just to get it on saturday and faced in and watching the decider the van gives wild game practice ahead of the forthcoming season and the chance to experiment with new players and signings at our game in the opening quarter ended up with a four point lead for. in the second the muscovites before and some nice passing moves and proved that they're getting to know each other's game well forty twenty nine at the big intermission the turkish visitors tried to stand firm against his guys attack but the army man kept winding their way to the bag board and they continued to play more and more confidently showing solid before moans and pumping pressure on to the basket the winning team was coolly along before the final buzzer seventy three fifty seven their weight finished. despite the friendly state as a lot of tournaments are very glad to win as we were competing against top flight teams however there's still a lot of work ahead as we made too many unforced errors.

in games. that. maybe. these games. don't need any. effect is. just victory was teamed with a little sadness for the red and blue as it was also make asian to beat their well to tears college and graduate langdon and john wood holden who have just retired holden born in the u.s. to crash. citizenship helping his adopted country to european numerous four years ago the army men great spend plenty of time signing autographs for the fans and handed out their words for the tournament's best players at a post match ceremony. one the most available player who started the season just

around the corner found so few on this because last this man will be hoping they're in top shape for the challenges ahead concern about out of our team. i'll be back with our obviates in a couple of hours meanwhile you can rate and comment on some of the stories seen here on our you tube channel at r.t. sport news thanks. well. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've got the huge you're covered.

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the greek government set to approve more unpopular taxes or tries to convince european lenders to end over another piece of the fail out to avert a looming default. meanwhile the greek prime minister will be heading to the lead to hold told as the country's debt crisis spirals out of the. u.n. security council prepares to submit the palestinian statehood bid for recognition despite fierce objections from israel and the u.s. which is about to be you know the move. and as the u.k. struggles to create new jobs amid a stark rise in unemployment it emerges that nine out of ten positions are being taken by immigrants. and this question mark kleiman morning session that's despite the shocks of a finance minister monday get details.