to have collaborative joint efforts to be able to rid the streets and rather than for law sort of unitary approaches. in how we want to rid the streets and you mentioned. the price of your involvement in afghanistan has been pretty high many thousand of your citizens lost their lives millions of people have been replaced there are estimates that it cost your country around seventy million u.s. dollars but we often hear criticism about pakistan's role. to involvement in afghanistan from the american side do you think the united states treats you fairly. i would like to answer that question by saying that what is crucial to is solid robust partnership is that each able to live or operate within the bounds of what is. believed to be you know what has been agreed as far as treating fairly is concerned i think pakistan has in this

particular case not been treated fairly by anybody for that matter because pakistan continues to lose lives pakistan continues to lose in terms of economic cost in terms of the social cost i think sometimes that is not emphasized on enough so we continue to lose in many many ways but some times the rule that is that is put on pakistan is a rule which is understandable which defies logic so to speak because if the first country to benefit from is stable one stands pakistan and the first country to lose from in you know unstable understand is also pakistan so pakistan stick a very high and that is what is commonly believed that yes pakistan's stakes are very high but pakistan sticks are very high in having stability in afghanistan not instability in the war on the stand so we have maintained and we state very clearly . it is really for the one people to determine what course of action they want to

take in any way possible whether they want to have strategic alliance with country a country b. it's a sovereign country we must respect them as that but pakistan's rule in any way can only be that was supportive i think seeing that pakistan has cause of the problem and is creating trouble is an imaginary solution it is an imaginary blame it is an imaginary looking for an answer but the real solutions the real problems have to be faced you know on the ground now as we all know that the united states has been taking on a lead role in this military operation. why do you think with all its military power and the resources that are invested into this campaign why the thing. results are not that impressive as a few there could be i think i'm not the right person to answer that question it should be somebody from the us administration i want to question to be right i don't think it is important with the us is succeeding or is winning in afghanistan

or not what is important is that of one the stand is winning or not because the goal of the u.s. and pakistan and the region and all the forty eight countries which operate in the understand is to make of understand when if i may come back to the issue of american criticism for just one question president obama said in a number of occasions that one of the reasons why the united states is using drones to file for your territory and to hit targets on your territory is because the pakistani authorities allegedly. are not in control of their own land and my question to you is. why pakistan tolerating the use of military technology that are killing targets on pakistani land that ultimately oftentimes lead to the loss of life among the pakistani citizens of this is one of the major problems that keeps us from achieving our

successes in our view. not only completely illegal and under full and have north resolution to be used within the domains of international law but even more importantly they are counterproductive to your objective of getting this region rid of militancy and terrorism and extremism because if one strike leads to getting a new target number one or target number three to be you're creating five more targets or ten more targets in the militancy that it breeds in the in the for doing that it gives to the militants to attract more people to join the ranks we are to be in pakistan suffering from the consequences. or what you know many other powers of the world decided to do in that region to rid itself of. a challenge that appeared in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine which was the soviet invasion of one star not in trying to deal with that we have created certain groups which are

to be. a challenge to everybody so again do we want to repeat the same mistakes again clearly pakistan doesn't think so and pakistan has categorically said that it is illegal under full counterproductive other any than your senior of your reasonable values that pakistan could take in case of drone attacks beyond forcing it's concern or a distraction my question to you is it just an issue of some countries allowing. greater freedom and greater purpose far off foreign policy tools than others that would be a very unfair world and i hope that's not a world that we are moving towards and therefore the questions of illegality and. is extremely important one and. the currently no compromise in pakistan about that if you look at it said i think this is partially one of the media reasons which is

responsible for we have yet to be pakistan country which. considers itself to be a sovereign country and to do this to be an independent country has therefore decided to reassess the whole terms of engagement because for to us it is very clear that this is not part of the terms of engagement if that clarity is required elsewhere i guess the parliament will be in its right to be able to define it but. the approach that we've taken the approach that we taking is not that of a confrontation the prudes they've been taking is that for doing the partnership which is which is based on mutual respect and based on mutual interest just last week. and her reports was like to the media that pakistani security forces and maintaining contacts with. terrorism and extremist organizations that are operating in afghanistan as far as i understand there was. an allegation that they're

supporting them financially. is this true first of all this is not a new to report we were told by need to at least that this is a. single person not need to report but if in the country in a single person and pretty much. all the aborted because this is not an accusation or allegation that to be made on part of the specific context of the mentioned were with the taliban of alter intelligence agencies i think every intelligence agency in the world particularly the ones which are both. i mean. with one group or the other and all of them at some level and these guys are now pretty much out in the open because people are literally got involved talking to them so i think just creating you know this is this is something which is not even worth a comment quite frankly the united states is expected to withdraw its troops from afghanistan and a matter of a few years is pakistan looking forward to. that. but you see

again they came here with some goals and objectives we would hope that most of those goals and objectives are met or at least partially met and we would hope that when the. end of one son is a better place than when they first came but the long term presence of foreign troops in the region is always always counterproductive. yes but we would also be very very mindful of what is the situation on the ground when they leave because instability more instability is clearly something that this region cannot cannot afford i'd like to switch gears a little bit and ask you about iran you know the west now piling its pressure on that country which is your neighbor and longtime partner. how pakistan of us born in the case of military strike against iran we would strongly.

countries to desist from any option which is military. because this region has already seen too much and we do not want any further destabilization. we feel very strongly that these things can be no good you know can be settled on the negotiation table that there should be flexibility shown and that dialogue should be considered to be the only via forward and it would have disastrous let me go to pakistan feels it would have disastrous results for the region what about syria do support the military intervention against assad's regime we support no military intervention against in the region because we feel that the independent sovereign they do territorial integrity of a country are important aspects and there in trying to many many places now what we need to ensure the international community is is that violence from any side is not given lunch is not allowed to. move forward thank you very much for

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violence in syria escalates but the world is left guessing about what's actually happening as opposition forces offer contradicting claims over just how many people are dying. that you guessed it shakes over its own embargo on arena while us officials expressed concern europe and the loser. and pakistan's foreign minister has told you that americans drone strikes are pushing new recruits into the arms of the region's militant groups and you report claims to have uncovered scores of civilian deaths in the u.s. led attacks. time now for sports of a diner's here with us and managers making your headlines and marina any tapas why did. he decide on a new deal and end all the speculation that has been gathering about the fact he was on his way back to italy but that's not the case while england are in disarray

after fabio capello resigned as then the national coach more in the mind. hello there you're watching the sports and these are the headlines saying puts any coach lucentis ability agrees to remain at the club for another three years. while fabio capello quits as england manager just four months before the start of the european championship. and russian side uniques placed their defeat in the euro league's top sixteen with a narrow loss to armani in milan. he has signed a deal to keep him at the stadium until twenty fifteen then use a real boost for the st petersburg side who are preparing to face benfica in the last sixteen of the champions league next week is the furthest the club ever got in

the competition and continues the success bless he's had since joining from roma back in two thousand and nine over the last two years he's won back to back russian premier league titles and his side are currently six points clear at the top of the deal bring to an end speculation about the fifty nine year old immediate future last month italian media reported he was interested in joining his hometown club if you don't team that in florence meanwhile fabio capello has sensationally resigned as a england manager he was jew to lead them to the european championships in june but stepped down after falling out with the english football association the italian resigned after a meeting with his employees in london his decision coming after the f.a. publicly undermined him last week they failed to consult capello before taking the captain's armband from john terry who is facing a racism trial capello then went on it in television to voice his disapproval he took charge in two thousand and eight after england failed to reach the last european championships but had it disappointing twenty ten world cup campaign while

the player to replace capello is tottenham manager harry redknapp the path seemingly. after he was found not guilty of tax evasion by a london court just hours earlier the sixty four year old and his former chairman. had been accused of concealing nearly three hundred thousand dollars of transfer bonuses while in charge of portsmouth redknapp said he was relieved the case was finally. going to be honest it was before of years and this is a case you should never come to court because it is unbelievable really but with the bank is very very very it was it was during this euro but it was university vision the jury. unanimously you know there was no no. now another football news the final of the africa cup of nations will be between favorite ivory coast and surprise package zambia the elephant feet mali one people

to feel and grab on to progress and strike at uva with the gangs only go well in the other semifinal zambia beat ghana by the same scoreline manual for you with the strike to keep his teammates the final they've been training off. i think this is the best thing you know was it popped into play in the final thing for the players i think this is the best moment to play off and on top of nations i know this is fun just keep everyone happy everybody is upbeat we prove the people wrong. we are a good team we win today so i think we are we were the best to do despite whatever they want to see because we are in the final and we are. but in spain barcelona have reached the copper del rey final after a two no victory over valencia at the nou camp it will be their third spanish cup final in four seasons under coach pep guardiola a goal in each half from fabregas and jav ensuring they went through three one on aggregate plenty of playing the last fifteen minutes of this one with ten men artists of the army for whom lee was sent off for

a second yellow card pastoral face athletic bilbao in the final after the bass club crashed miranda. sunderland of booked a place in the fifth round of the f.a. cup after a two one victory over middlesbrough us the black cats will play arsenal in the last sixty. now the russian city of sochi will host the winter olympics in exactly two years time and not by a long course that's been built has been described as one of the toughest in the world the course. is hosting its first serious test event this weekend and the president of the russian biathlon union believes athletes will find it tough billionaire mikhail prokhorov took a look at the venue ahead of the russia cup are more in height differences of up to sixty meters between peaks and troughs while making exhausting while the climate will also take its toll. because some of the rules because it's the most difficult course in the world the temperature differential between the snow in the year is

only four degrees celsius we don't have this anywhere else in the world for this for the people who prepare the students this is a huge problem with this because the competition all the more unpredictable. and while russian basketball side have suffered their first defeat in the euro league's top sixteen they went down to import armani sixty three fifty eight in milan the russians defeated armani in week three but this time the italians were unstoppable an impressive three pointer here from ernest bremmer giving italians a twenty eleven lead late in the first quarter only x. four back in the second and even pulled the deficit back to four points by half time but it was not enough to stop armani. taking their first win in the top six things sixty three fifty eight the score still top a great jay with three wins and one things. which the boxing my russian welterweight idea of is emerging as a promising talent he still unbeaten after getting wind number sixteen i have

a colombian international mendoza and moscow last night ringside was michael clarke . many here are saying that the fight between their beer and windows is going to be a big case in the first rounds simply because both have a lot at stake i like the idea has been undefeated until now mendoza could lose his double in a better than belt we'll see indeed that was the case in the first couple of rounds mendoza sprightly books are matched everything our d. of had to offer even seemed to be edging the fight through the judges' eyes but after seeing his fellow compaction it's when all of the bouts prior to the night's main event the russian light welterweight turned up the heat in the fourth increasingly mendoza was put on the back foot by some nifty flurries of jabs and punches from our dear but it was the twenty nine year old russian who was carrying the open wounds and splashing the ring with blood at the end of the fifth round and then in the sixth spot the animal came out seeing an opportunity unleashed

a vicious number of punches to put mendoza against the ropes. the russian fighter thought it was all over at one point raising his arms in the am only to be brought down to earth by the bell mendoza now looks half the man that had entered the ring and with another savage onslaught by his opponent had to be protected by the referee bring him in to the brownouts in a technical knockout. ridea of gladly received a w b a federal latin belts but seemed more pleased in retaining his unbeaten status and them. manner of his victory i don't really know where the telling blow came from it came on its own unexpectedly but of course a famous time off after beaten opponent ignacio mendoza was of course disappointed with the defeat even though it was only his seventh loss in forty two bouts but the twenty eight year old colombian did offer reasons behind his downfall i couldn't

when you saw the fight he was strong he had a great garden a really good left hook. there were three other ballots on the night that also managed to bring the crowd alive ukraine's mikol occurred in your spot up with russia's oleg lisi of but after a full eight rounds the bout had to be decided by the judges who were unanimously in favor of of lucy. in the second fight professional debut chance to give was not made light of things showing no signs of jitters as he dispatched to make his former two time heavyweight title challenger owen back after four rounds. and the third bout involves russia's good he drugged to challenge former w b a light heavyweight champion richard hall but after eight rounds the jamaican could no longer and surrendered in his corner plenty of celebrities were also on hand to enjoy the thrills of the evening including russian books in legend dennis limit of i came down here to support my friends my fighting colleagues i think this event is

world organized and it will only get better also in the ranks with deputy prime minister alexander and renowned director nikita mikel cough who seemed to really appreciate the efforts of the russian boxes so one could see allergy of the emphatic when coupled with a clean sweep by the remaining russian boxes must be a sign that boxing is alive and well in russia mark of change go party moscow. and finally former stars keep rolling back the years at the moment in formula one teams are testing in spain ahead of the new season and seven time world champion michael schumacher has put himself on top of the time sheets sadie's one of the teams yet to reveal their new car for the season so hugh mackay was driving the one who needs in last year's championship but he was still the quickest out of all the old models that were testing on wednesday however red bull have pulled off the covers of their new machine and their driver mark webber show day will again be getting to be the fastest overall time he was followed by forcing these paul di resta their former

world champion can write in and couldn't match his blistering first day and was fifth fastest testing continues until the weekend. that brings us to the end of the sport or more later. well for. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. but i'm defining it as strive for failure australia if you want to be on there's no we're going to see the film on screen if you want to have sex go and have sex.

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it to the limit. welcome to the union of creatures. russia close up. violence in syria but the world is left guessing about what's actually happening as opposition forces offer contradicting claims over just how many people are dying. the e.u. gets the shakes over its own embargo on arabian oil as officials express concern europe could end up being the loser. in pakistan's foreign minister tells r t that america's drone strikes are pushing newer kurds towards the region's militant groups as a new report finds more of the civilian deaths in attacks. and in business entrepreneurs are to review what they're expecting from the next administration during a meeting with a prime minister all first day for more details join me in twenty minutes robert.

it is one pm the russian capital you're watching r t with me arena joshua into the program now u.n. says it plans to team up with the arab league and restart a monitoring mission in a conflict torn syria that follows russia's ongoing calls for the international community to support moscow. efforts to mediate a peace deal in syria government forces are shelling several areas including the flashpoint city of homs damascus says it's conducting an operation there but activists are accusing the government of a massacre and say hundreds of civilians have been killed over the past week syria's under a foreign media blackout making their reality on the ground hard to confirm and the opposition isn't making that any easier as it argues over just how many people are being killed over bennett's has more. than the syrian observatory of human rights.