find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to. six thirty pm in moscow these here are t. headlines dozens of new civilian deaths reported in syria as the arab league gears up to monitor the implementation of a peace plan hundreds of mercenaries though from abroad allegedly fighting for regime change there the u.n. figures more than five thousand civilians killed in syria since march the regime claims its fighting an armed insurgency funded from abroad. shifting to the east pakistan with an eye on the future of forging fresh ties with china as its u.s. relationship starters from one crisis to the next with the strains heightened by the covert u.s. raid that killed bin laden last month's drone strike that left twenty four pakistani soldiers dead. suddenly the tempo changed when there is that explosion

and then the full to explosion the different axes and in fukushima one morning the happening very quick succession and suddenly. everyone's very skates ivor bennett one of our team's correspondents shares his memories on the destruction he witnessed in the horror he faced reporting from post point japan after it had been ravaged by natural disasters wiping out thousands of lives leaving millions and hear of a global nuclear catastrophe. and twenty years ago to the day the u.s.s.r. the world's largest country ceased to exist the collapse of the union brought with it an end to the cold war and gave rise to a dozen new countries but also hardship in ethnic tension former republics gained independence but for many that made years of economic instability and on a rest to this day some of the countries are split on opinions as to whether the fall of the union was more harm than good the august one thousand nine hundred one coup was the. as the trigger for eventual collapse and thousands of people thought

they were seeing history written before their eyes out next year for a man with inside knowledge that he witnessed the rattle of the soviet union firsthand if any clinical interview. 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 in bolivia. drunk and groggy on their legs just about to sign off 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 go bitch i was attention and i did tell him about it too in the presence of others and 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 the 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 in this post. if we look back at history any large inquiry . 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 to put 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 beyond question by now the republic of 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 those 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 the roost in kazakhstan 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 there were just always those question do you think it's possible to restore something similar to the soviet union through your asian economic community which comprise a several soviet republics. no i don't think of it as anything similar to the soviet union so there's no. all things 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 child's nationalisation tendency in business as well as integration process is at stake 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 is gender 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 and. as you pointed out it is a well known fact that economic problems were the primary contributing factor to the us the stars the solution today it will look at the us and the e.u. shaken by a powerful 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. you know no i don't think so because of course some serious impact is inevitable in the case of europe which 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 he still is 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 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. here's a hypothetical question 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 libya. talking of nato involvement in yugoslavia i think it could have take. place even

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 us position to follow in its footsteps was 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 may even have been prevalent in some circles that is why they felt an ever growing desire to act independently without taking notice of the soviet union or russia. or less quicker work. what price to trash have to pay for such a spineless policy when as you said it followed in the footsteps of the us. the

price was tremendous economically last more than joining the second world war when 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 solution between bodies but is all ski and roman abramovich 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. do nothing of this they still say that and here's the final question the u.s.s.r. promoted a certain ideology any strong state needs to have an ideology do you think russia has come up with some of its own. 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 was good and

taken together you might get if they represent russia's national ideas in question thank you you're welcome. me.

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dozens of new civilian deaths reported in syria as the arab league gears up to monitor the implementation of a peace plan hundreds of mercenaries from abroad are allegedly fighting for regime change there the u.n. estimates more than five thousand civilians killed in syria since march while the regime claims its fighting an armed insurgency funded from abroad. shifting to the east pakistan with an eye toward the future of forging fresh ties with china as its u.s. relationship staggers from one crisis to the next with the strains heightened by the covert american raid that killed bin laden the last month's drone strike that left twenty four pakistani soldiers dead. some celebrating a few commiserates of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the u.s.s.r. an opinion still split whether the breaking up of the country was best choice for

its people it ended the cold war paved the way for democracy but sparked a series of bloody regional conflicts and economic downturns. romana joins us next with sports stay with us. oh and of all come to support an artsy come and see you from the russian capital with made room on cos for about first as usual the headlines. dress for success russia snowboarders receive brand new uniforms ad of their new season and such a winter in the big sense twenty four is a. good five seconds to go at two point zero from derrick rose gives the bulls a narrow victory over the los angeles lakers in the new n.b.a. season. already on the mats our correspondent explores the simplistic

it world of the japanese martial art by. all that's coming out about what will start with ice hockey where there were eight games on offer in the continental hockey league on sunday to mobilise conceded in there and nine consecutive matchups are losing to go on home ice already in with the score all ford suit defending garri cup champion sell a lot of you live one a whole match against the world with the same four two scoreline tracts have been scored through second period goals against visit saints are better news than not good which were enough to win the match two time good cup winners are the bars defeated visiting side c.b.d. by three pucks to one while kate feels bad boys it has lost two hour drive of a guard in the moscow region by the narrowest of margins to one mistake you make beats a little because they have three to the match between severstal and you grok and it's scoreless in regulation and overtime by the home side gold the upper hand in the penalty shoot out while spartak moscow a loss to the visiting that's

a look at warsaw so one. so missile are going to divorce have now moved up to fourth in the eastern conference of the continental hockey league following that narrow two one victory over sparse. right here in the russian capital now the visitors opened the scoring five minutes into the second period. on the scoreboard for the other kind of charges the moscow spectators had to wait until the beginning of the third period where romana dushan got a long awaited equaliser as he made the most of the powerplay to make it all the lord's response was that much quicker seems so she needed only forty four seconds to put his teammates in front again sealing the final results off to one spark sit second from bottom in the west. to snowboarding now word seem russia have presented the new kits in which they will perform for the next three years including that's one hundred fourteen home and then takes in saatchi the russian alpine skiing and

snowboarding federation has signed a sponsorship deal with one of the biggest brands in extreme sports equipment the country is becoming one of the powerhouses and trendsetters in the snowboarding world with many athletes competing for podium places the outfit was presented by members of the national seeing and among them was a european cup winner in big bear city gate la pushkin and female boarders in parallel. to the guess who won a total of six races last season also claiming the first ever world cup sidle for her country and. who was the first russian's acknowledge olympic silver medal in snowboarding in vancouver despite a poor start of the current season the boers are eyeing and overall win at the world cup with the next stage starting on january the thirteenth in austria. i started this year's campaign with a second place but it later stages my results became even worse however i drew conclusions and where it's hard to improve in my performance it's still

a long way to go for me to try and win that woke up for the second straight year. i was age just like last year but i feel to improve on my results so far i was just unlucky. of course these trainers did rightly so after the world cup speech is turning in january before march back to international two of the rankings. so the harwood now where opening games of the new n.b.a. season were finally held in one of them a former n.b.a. champions los angeles lakers have started the new season with defeats kobe bryant and company losing to the chicago bulls on home court by single point eighty eight eighty seven the visitors had a narrow two point lead after the first quarter they extended their advantage to seven by halftime mainly thanks to derrick rose who would eventually finish with twenty two points for the visitors the lakers woke up only in the third period as bryant with his partners added eight more than their rivals to find themselves one point ahead by the beginning of the fourth quarter dunk from josh mcroberts giving

los angeles a sixty nine sixty eight lead the sides were neck and neck for the final twelve minutes but with less than five seconds to go rose added the most important to point or to seal the final result the game finished eighty eight eighty seven in favor of the bulls. standing across the ocean where in the n.f.l. the green bay packers have clinched the number one seed in the playoffs that's asked for a beating the chicago bears on home serve thirty five twenty one aaron rodgers turned out to be the hero of the night as he had the first down match of his career rogers made twenty one of twenty nine passes for two hundred eighty three yards and five scores jerm eichel thin they call it once and make it seven nil to the hosts in the first quarter jordan nelson james jones downs of peace with that victory the packers improved to fourteen wins and one defeat in this season.

and that brings us to i.q. though which is considered to be one of the most complicated martial arts russian leading instructors gave t.v. reporters a unique opportunity to finds out what it is all about firsthand robert ardler yon has more. the japanese martial art of my kiddo he's in to keep one it means way of her more in a spirit and doesn't involve any offensive moves at all and teaches you to use your opponent's aggression and power against him without causing injuries leaving many delton it can be really effective it might be probably one of the reasons why russian leaning i keep instructors held the muscle class for t.v. correspondents in moscow and promptly showed some specific i.q. did petitions. now what if somebody tries to take your microphone away don't resist get inside and it's still in your hands. it's all the same if you need to

take it away from somebody else just get inside like this. and take the microphone however it only looks that easy in the hands of a skilled i.q. the practitioner it's all different when it comes to one man who was maybe just a bit overconfident after one though we're a long lesson. here is the way to get you through as a fool who is bigger and stronger than you. of course if you have the skills just like ito was also known as a martial art for intellectuals a very sophisticated one so those who hope to gain skills very quickly soon quit like you know tasks are much tougher than some standup fighting or wrestling techniques as in judo or some of it nevertheless having experience in a different martial arts can only help in starting aikido where perfect balance and

coordination are a must the russian nation team member in the player would know is a perfect proof of that initially hang had a vast judo background in two thousand and one she became the first ever russian woman to get a muscle of sports degree. it takes more time to reach a decent level of skills than i care than in other martial arts how do i can patients that's their new way one can become a really good guy kedai some start with a background in other martial arts some just start from scratch that's possible at any age like the founder of money hey you sheeba taught that kids can steer their way of harmonious spirit as soon as they are able to walk the earlier you start the closer we get to perfection robert for the new and arty more skilled. well half a year to go before the summer olympics and vietnamese away a letter that came to one aims to win his first ever gold medal for his home

country now the seventeen year old young man is one of the country's most talented young athletes he made. his international debut for vietnam at the two thousand and nine world youth weightlifting championships in thailand winning three silver medals a year later he represented his nation at the inaugural youth and picks in singapore where he claimed gold in the fifty six kilograms of vision his form in twenty eleven was impressive he smashed two world records at the recent asian championships and lifting its also off two hundred seventy seven kilograms it's a nature is currently the world's top ranked junior and is second in this senior rankings. to win a gold medal for vietnam at an event as big as the olympic games in london would mean soo much to me i would be so happy for me it would be the perfect way to pay back the love and belief that so many people have shown to me. and finally let's move on to a variation of weightlifting now where russia's marianna no more ball has set the

new under fourteen world record at a recent russian powerlifting cup right here in moscow that's all of your old athlete won the competition in style with an impressive results should bench pressed seventy seven point five kilograms despite an injured shoulder which is strained during the warm up but she coped with the pain and finished the tournaments on top marianna hopes to enhance her current result by lifting eighty kilos next year. that's all for now there will be more sport on artsy very soon meanwhile our youtube channel at artsy sports news is always available so head there to rates and comments on some of the stories seen right here thanks for watching. history. testimony. ten stories

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