adding former terrorists have arrived in the country saying that they're ready to pick up arms to help oust president assad. and pakistan holds top level talks to cement its ties with china as its american relations will wither away the final straw with the u.s. came after last month's drone attack which ended up killing twenty four pakistani soldiers. well up next here on our t.v. we hear from a man on the inside who witnessed the soviet union unravel two decades ago here's his account of what happened during that time. do you perhaps recall saying once that you do not understand what stopped the president of the u.s.s.r. mikhail gorbachev from using military force in order to prevent the signing of the

treaty enforcing the dissolution of the u.s.s.r. in one thousand nine hundred one do you think that the u.s.s.r. should have been preserved at any cost. you see i don't even think there was any need for military force what could have been done that's my opinion while others may have theirs but i think that the better russian military district could have been given an order to encircle the three leaders passing their time and bill of this guy a pusher drunk and groggy on their legs just about to sign of these documents that they were jotting down on the spot and simply take them to their homes instead of arresting them and just take away these papers but this was not the key thing the key thing was and it was brought to gorbachev attention and i did tell him about it too in the presence of others that one should have started with an economic treaty if we had signed a treaty establishing a single economic space i think it would have been a step towards preserving an upgraded modernized soviet union which could have

freed itself from the darker parts of its legacy gorbachev gave a public response the next day after we had made these suggestions to him he said he didn't think an economic treaty should be signed first because he was sure it would jeopardize the signing of the political treaty which he thought had been pre-agreed one thing that wasn't considered properly was that once a single economic space is in place relevant supranational political structures will develop that's inevitable that's why we should have started with an economic treaty and many in fact were ready. to go along with that even the baltic states were ready to go along with the idea of preserving a single economic space turn. back at history any large inquired sooner or later do you think that having a single economics piece would have been enough to avert dissolution. of course it wouldn't have been enough but it would have been a huge contribution to averting dissolution and you see we can't really compare

that situation with today for instance as they are completely different and that's because back then in the soviet union everything was centralized and existed as a single system and no one gained anything through dissolution no one did perhaps russia benefited a little more than others because it's larger and stronger and has a more developed economy but on a large scale no one gained anything going to me that's beyond question by now the republican have evolved into sovereign states which have come a long way and developed a connections into relations with other states in the west and with china and so long. it's a completely different picture even today creating a single economic space if it's done properly full scale and we currently have agreements with. pertaining to that and it's also possible that kyrgyzstan will join in if it all goes well it will be one of the pillars of securing integrity and preventing any dissolution. where they were just almost always correct do you think

it's possible to restore something similar to the soviet union through your asian economic community which comprises several soviet republics. no i don't think of it as anything similar to the soviet union there's nothing today that can be similar to the soviet union in any way but integration is one of the driving forces of globalization and it's taking effect everywhere we go along with these forces and today we can say that the trans nationalisation tendency in business as well as integration process is at. state level shows are the driving forces of today's reality so if we succeed in going along with them so that we take over these forums and promote our agenda through them and this agenda will not differ much from that of the west if it will additionally focus more on the national interests of each state i think it will be a great advantage in a national solution as you pointed out it is a well known fact that economic problems were the primary contributing factor to

the us the stars dissolution today it will look at the us and the e.u. shaken by a purple economic crisis can we expect an up or america to discourse at some point too similar to the way the u.s.s.r. did it and you know no i don't think so because of course some serious impact is inevitable in the case of europeans so much i recall a talk i had with a person i deeply respect or former chancellor schmidt of west germany or she is now ninety two or ninety three and he's still a totally bright person i had an insightful conversation with him last year you know he said the events in the eurozone would have an impartial jury and he believes it could on the one hand lead to a deeper integration of a number of states within the e.u. in terms of foreign policy defense under the issues or on the other hand the old timers of the union or who have complied with the requirements would have a different attitude to those who joined the union just recently should not shut up with here's a hypothetical questions just several years after the collapse of the soviet union

nato want you both right here if the u.s.s.r. had not collapsed do you think nato would have gone ahead with operations in yugoslavia afghanistan iraq and libya. it. would be talking of nato involvement in yugoslavia i think it could have taken place when the u.s.s.r. was still alive because the alliance acted without permission of the un security council but there is much more to it in a few years after the dissolution of the u.s.s.r. i mean in the first half of the one nine hundred ninety s. our foreign policy was to show support for the. u.s. position sure to follow in its footsteps says the position of the foreign ministry voiced by its head was as follows we desperately need to become part of the civilized world by any means the rest is jibberish so the west must have seen that such sentiment was present in post soviet russia and maybe even have been prevalent in some circles and that is why they felt an ever growing desire to act

independently without taking notice of the soviet union or russia. i was going to work i saw what price to trash have to pay for such a spineless policy when as you said it followed in the footsteps of the us. mint. the price was tremendous political economically lost more than joining the second world war one such was the price the scale of the losses would become clear if all people had a chance to watch the hearings in a london court. and roman i'm removing going to listen to the horrendous stories or what have you businesses were given protection by crime in officials or the way privatisation was carried out with that in mind it would be insane to say that the country benefited from the one nine hundred ninety s. doing nothing. else. and here's the final question the us asserted promoted a certain ideology any strong state needs to have an ideology do you think russia has come up with some of its own. can go to goodness and wants they called

a national idea has not been articulated yet we all work to make people's lives better and safer the demographic situation needs improving the economic model needs an overhaul because the one that was in place before the two thousand and eight crisis will not work in the future with these challenges are evident and taken together your mortgage if they represent russia's national idea that question thank you you're welcome.

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it's twenty years since the world's largest country was wiped off the map the breakup of the soviet union the end of communism in the region and gave birth to a dozen new states but its legacy continues to divide those who warn and celebrate its collapse. former libyan rebels are taking their revolution on the road to syria mercenary groups including former terrorists have arrived in the country saying that they are ready to pick up arms again this time to help alice president assad. and pakistan hold top level talks to cement its ties with china as its relationship with the united states withers the final straw with america came after last month's

drone attack which killed twenty four pakistani soldiers. up next year in our t.v. it's the news with sports in the world of sports with roman. hello and welcome to sport on r t coming to you from the russian capital with me or i'm on call for a first as always the headlines. the rink dreams russia's junior ice hockey team goes to canada to defend the world side's old one in buffalo. reaching for the stars long jump the norm and on zaria collegiate aims to make a huge debut at the london olympics. kings of new york the giants run out confident winners over local rivals jets to get the big apple bragging rights and

a chance for in the n.f.c. east ground but will start with ice hockey where there were eight games on offer in the kontinental hockey league on sunday three early matches to tell you about first where often police conceded in their ninth consecutive matchups for losing to deny moscow on home ice over in almost with a score of four two defending the garden called champion celibacy alive won a whole match against more with the same four two scoreline rochefort should have been scored to second for you it goes against visiting towards better news you know girls which were enough to win the match now let's follow up with suits on the garden cup winners are the boers who was defeated visiting side c.b. by three bucks to one while kate shells that boys d.t. has lost two or drives of on guard in the moscow region by the narrowest of margins to one nifty he made beats let's all hope that it was netscape three to the match between severstal and you gras and it scoreless in regulation and oversight i'm but the home side got the upper hand in that penalty shoot outs while spartak moscow

a loss to the visiting it makes a lot of money to work in the russian capital so one gets a little to have now extended their winning streak to seven matches and staying with ice hockey where the russian national junior team are preparing to defend the world crown they captured a year ago it's one in twelve championships get underway in calgary canada on monday and robert barr the neon has the preview. was. the young victorious landing at home in blaze of glory to live the world youth champions get up in front of their adoring fans the russian youth hockey team clore the trophy out of the hands of their canadian peers in buffalo us in a dramatic finale last year. and now the reigning champions are ready to take on the even tougher challenge in their own land of hockey canada they hope to hold on to the brown they can't trigger

a year ago. but of course when el facing an even tougher task we won the title and now we need to defend it and our opponents are going to see us in a different way with much more respect and with the aspiration to beat us we'll see how we can handle it our ashes. this man probably more than anyone else in the team holds the art in his hands one of the most gifted russian players of the new generation of gainey because needs of the nineteen year old forward played an essential role in his team's brilliant performance last year. that you have been slated for just kept on shining taking part in the kitchen all-star game in twenty eleven and also making his debut with the national senior team but he's back for his third world year jump and ships which gets norway on monday and he's looking forward to settling some old scores all of that smaller than i enjoy playing

against canadians it gives me a kind of a special drive recalling last year's finals in buffalo even when they took a three no lead and the whole arena started singing our team got a spark to get them even more so when we scored the winner and the home crowd walked out a whole minute earlier it was unbelievable though with it's a safe bet my native dragons men will give their all to get the feeling once again . and it really does take much more than one great turns to achieve them was the theme of says that russian fans have every reason to expect some new up and comers to show off in the big showdown with the most of them each one of our squad can be a leader all for one and one for all that's the way we play it doesn't matter if it's me was or was a lot of goals or any of my teammates. will the golden boy is a russian ice hokey please their first test in the group stage begins switzerland.

r.t. newschool region. one of the world's brightest up and coming the long jump stars is hoping to make the upcoming london it's what it's all the next her shining moment zaria collation has been training right here in the russian capital after a string a world class performances into wednesday eleven that collation out won gold at the under twenty three european championships and the european championships this year that's when iraq also owns the second best mark among juniors ever after she broke the seventy meter barrier aged nineteen collation of becoming a popular figure securing plenty of endorsement deals thanks to her looks and achievements and the upstart long jumper is already focused at stake in the next step to have a chance at standing at the podium in london this summer. i. think this is over this new we say it's a dream is something that is unrealistic and a long way from reality so for me the olympics and it's

a dream i talk it was something that i mean full and focusing on in just over a year's time i hope we're going to be in a very fast in big games and i will be talking success not just the things go well and that i can perform to the best of my ability and become a champion in moving on to the national football league now where talk turned out to be cheap for the jets coach rex ryan the new york giants coming out confidence once in nine fourteen winners over a gang green after plenty of media barbs from both sides leading up to the clash john's quarterback eli manning finding beats or cruz despise being pinned inside his own end zone and the twenty five year old showed his blazing speed by making a huge ninety nine yards down run the giants going up seven seven late in the second quarter after that amazing effort by their breakout star ahmad bradshaw also a big contributor for the g. men as he gashed the jets defense for two touchdowns the giants thus setting up an

n.f.c. east side all showdown with the dallas cowboys in the final week. of the denver broncos quarterback team t. ball has been known for his late comeback to royce but he was the exact opposite against buffalo denver was up seven three before my calvin turned that side during the offseason overlook special teams plays and eighty yard ponds return putting buffalo three for their first lead of the game meanwhile couldn't bring his team back late this interception return score by jerry is byrd was followed by another one from spencer johnson forty fourteen the final the broncos fall back into for the a.f.c. west. meanwhile has began that c.b.s. process of recovery from a broken leg he sustained earlier. this month during the club world cup the barcelona star hoping to see his once heal so he can help spain defend their consentual title of the year olds who went to twelve the thirty year old checked

out of a barcelona hospital after undergoing surgery on monday but doctors say villa will likely be out for around four or five months that means that he can technically aim to make the euro its way to twelve thirty mins which starts in june while villa himself is focused on recovery rather than any club or international competition. at the org i don't know the gurus not to be able to plea in any final competition yet there is still many months ahead with it happens and to think that forehead is not my still around and really concentrate on the day to day basis and i can tell you i will do everything to do back not necessarily for the champions league and year route twenty two will. build it. and with the year twenty eleven almost over it is high time to reflect on the teams and athletes which made an impact in the sporting world and while somewhere bass is setting the world records

and helping there it seems with trophies others were winning in less conventional ways save bonds of course he takes a look at some of the more offbeat sporting events of the year. running up flights of stairs and riding a bike are both good exercise but going up the stairs on a bike is a completely different ballgame well known footballer zombie is often putting on a show in barcelona but this time it was a slightly less famous zob excess stealing the spotlight from a soccer namesake with a flawless take me he was able to ascend one hundred fifty floors and setting a new record this hotel building seems like a mountain to climb but science achieved that feat six times over. while australia's most athletic cockroaches are given an opportunity to showcase their unique physical gifts the thirtieth annual cockroach race in queensland drew plenty of interest with competitors really itching to get out of the gates fourteen events and all to be contested between more than five hundred participants the cost of

owning your very own thoroughbred insect athlete is just ten dollars and proceeds from the tournament a given to local charities crashes are always something to be avoided especially in motor sport but sending your vehicle tumbling down this long straight is the only way to win here the ramp rollover championship sees the participants trying their best to crash in style and earn points but for some just getting out of the car in one piece is a reward enough twenty nine year old wayne drury emerging as the winner from all this carnage. staying with the racing theme and using the lawn more has never been this much fun or competitive the motor is divided into three groups from the simple engine to all the way to cutting edge of grass trimming my criswell a cut above the rest in group two in a ten lap race sub par playing conditions are the essence of this footballing competition to rather than a nuisance mud sweat and tears on the pitches at the swans soccer world cup in

scotland with participants really having no choice but to play dirty brazil holland and even russia them on the countries where the sport is growing increasingly popular yvonne's are gorski r.t. that's all for now but more sport will be coming your way in less than a couple of hours meanwhile our you tube channel at artie's for news is always available for your comments so head there when you get a chance thanks for watching.

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