gracious in afghanistan do you think that was the right thing to do you see if. you would you know things look very different but of course. the collaboration that pakistan has had in the last ten years pakistan has bit of a heavy price for that but it is also a fact that pakistan inhibits a region inhabits a region and will continue to have inhabited the street and this region has some serious problems the region has some serious problems but into terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint efforts to be able to rid this region rather than follow 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 very placed there estimates that it cost your country around seventy billion u.s.

dollars but we often hear criticism about pakistan's role. involvement in afghanistan found the american side do you think the united states treats you fairly. i would like to answer that question by seeing 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 first 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 costs 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 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 of understand is also pakistan so pakistan stick a very high and that is what is commonly believed that yes pakistan sticks are very high but pakistan sticks are very high in having stability in their one star not instability in the stand so we have maintained and we stated very clearly that 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 there to support of i think seeing that pakistan is 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 to 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 anything. 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 whether the u.s. is succeeding or is winning in the understand or not what is important is whether 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 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 that own land and my question is. why pakistan tolerating the use of military technology that are hitting targets on pakistani land that ultimately oftentimes lead to the loss of life among the pakistani citizens 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 due means of international law but even more importantly counterproductive to your objective of getting this rich region rid of militancy and terrorism and extremism because if one strike leads to getting new target number one or target number three to do 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 today in pakistan suffering from the consequences. you know many other problems of the world decided to do in that region to rid itself of the challenge that appeared in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine which was the soviet invasion of one star not in trying to deal with 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 ears in your view 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 perth 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 under full. is an extremely important one and there is absolutely currently no compromise in pakistan about that if you look at as i said i think this is partially one of the major reasons which is responsible for where we are today and pakistan as a country which considers itself to be a sovereign country to consider 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 now if that clarity is required elsewhere i guess the parliament will be in its right to be able to define it but

please mr approach that we're taking the approach that we're taking is not that if you can confrontation the pruett be 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 report was leaked 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 in the report but is fingal country and a single person and pretty much. all the bottle because this is not a new accusation or allegation which have been made in pakistan the specific

context of the mention were with the taliban of outer intelligence agencies i think every intelligence agency in the world particularly the ones which of world. some indian style is 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 openly talking about talking to these 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 at least partially met and we would hope when they leave in the understand 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. 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 you know can be settled on the negotiation table that there should be flexibility. 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 a side regime we support no military intervention against in the region because we feel that the independent sovereign the details are told in integrity of a country are important aspects and there in shined in many many places what we need to ensure the international community is that violence from any side is not given is not allowed to. move forward thank you very much for a time minister thank you. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough in-patient there's not enough urgency department and not enough nurses. to take care of all the people who are the only

real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to marry started out i want to just do firefighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the for the problem this medical. couple weeks ago we did four hours for i waited sometimes three hours i was it's a safe. and living with her for hours and fifteen minutes staring us toward the patient and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care and emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least.

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easy to. see. the arab league is set aside it's here trafford's on serious violence escalates and the u.s. gathers a coalition of the willing against damascus hundreds of people have reportedly been killed across syria over the past week. the spirit of revolution returns to interest on the first anniversary of mubarak's ousting with thousands of protesters calling for an immediate step down by the ruling military council but the generals are clinging on to power which they refused to give up until at least june. the people of greece have marched on the streets in anger over a new set of cards as the government struggles to keep the country's economy afloat parliament is now due to debate a draft belongs to the measures demanded by the e.u. and i.m.f. . russian civil society takes center stage in politics as

a group of public figure steps up to monitor the upcoming presidential vote with backing from all of the candidates the goal of the so-called voters league is to shore a fair and transparent election. for the top stories of the week sports next with paul. hello welcome to the world of sport here we're not saying it's good to have you company is what's coming out. making a racket russia given a lifeline in the davis cup tie with austria while roger federer switzerland whitewashed by the usa. mission impossible underdog zambia prepared to face overwhelming favorite spot ivory coast in the final of the twenty twelve africa cup of nations. perfectly poised tiger woods is four shots behind leader

charlie way going into the final round of the pebble beach national in california. but we begin with tennis and team russia have been given a lifeline in their davis cup tie with austria a dramatic doubles win on saturday has made the score two one going into the final day of action. mikhail youzhny knew a defeat would mean russia facing a playoff to keep their place in the world group however they came through a five set epic against alexander and all of a at three in the final set the russian g.o.i. completed a remarkable comeback seven six six seven seven five three six six four the final school that. well without all means is that russia need to win both of their reverse singles on sunday for stuff out of pocket full of judea faces you're looking for his first win representing russia and it could all come down to the fifth and final roba when you go commit same types of andras by the amount of.

meanwhile the usa have booked at place in the quarter finals with a comprehensive three no way over roger federer of switzerland while drawing a muddy fish winning the doubles rubber against federer and started in four sets four six six three six three six three the fun school. i feel pretty good doing those i certainly know what it feels like to lose. and it's not a great feeling and. you know player this guy's got the best doubles player of all time right here and understanding my part. meanwhile the final of the series open in paris will be between him favorite mario balotelli on the issue up of his bronze star but also check opponents as a couple over in straight sets seven six six love seven final twelve followed a win over sharapova with a straight sets victory over belgium's in and out with miles. now in ice hockey russia have lost one hundred favorites weighted in the swedish round of

games in the euro hockey toll the home side run a comfortable four one win is in stockholm but not before school is for us minutes at hold power play goal late in the second got things going for the hosts russia's attack came alive when they were two one down but the swedes capsulized on the russian mistakes to seal the victory with a faint still wasn't enough to not brush off the top spots in the overall euro tour standings meanwhile in the other game finland france the bottom sides the czech republic with seven them. while the next generation of russia's ice hockey stars have been showcasing that talents in an all star battle the n.h.l. showcase pits the best of the aist and the best of the west and it was the west which came from behind to win it second challenge cup title in a row we're not done yet was that. these men are all about twenty years old but they will regain the skills to show off the young hopefuls who present a youth hockey league they may kill at tellme factory producing players for your

strongest league big a chill pulling an all star game tradition one see year the peak of the image eastern conference place the best from the west in the so-called challenge cup with every move showing this is far from just an exhibit game. no end of skill from the very beginning to the joys of packed out middle corrina in one of russia's main us hockey centers gorst it was these what to believe and don't come out of sprawl playgirl three minutes from the first intermission the opening of the second period saw the eastern team extend their lead on said glimmer of turning the shootout effort into duel with confidence to make it two nil nevertheless the pick of the west proved to have wanted to to produce a stunning comeback. inspired by their skipper among liberal and continued by maxime creature. to two by the second in their mission. and they

come back turned into triumph of scored his second on the night to give his side the three to lead the eastern stars were giving their best to cool eyes but it was the western netminder or months media again who stole the show in then and producing to him a zing saves an empty netter at them and setting the final score of who are two. everybody was cheering for the east but the crowd support did not help the team we didn't have time to build any sort of chemistry with some of my teammates before the challenge cup but we still pulled out an emotional comeback win. so the league of the young has showcased its biggest airlines with the western conference team lifting the twenty twelve challenge cup although it's a safe bet these m.h.l. stars still have some bigger challenges and trophies ahead of them. robert carlin

your own party. central russia. now in football preparations are taking place ahead of sunday's africa cup of nations final the ivory coast will be overwhelming favorites when they take on zambia and gab on the ivorians book. place in the final with a one mil victory over mali in the seventies on wednesday the pre-tournament favorites haven't reached the showpiece final since two thousand and six and forward someone claims says the elephant team spirit to be the secret to their success we're working on the. team spirit and working together and you can see with every game we played even destroyed came down to defeat in you know. the defense so i think that the spirit does well we're looking for we want to win together and there's a motto was go. most important is to go home with the two feet and that's where

we go for well zambia reach the final after a surprise one nil win over god in the semi finals that we huge underdogs ahead of the game despite that victory and captain chris katanga though is convinced his side can cause an upset. the favorite at the moment the big buzz and everything but i think i want to be fulfilled to feel what i want to be when this is the moment that we can shine all the guys to get out the team if we can shine we're going to be in top as we did for nobody expected it but we believe in ourselves that we're going to do it and i think this is our moment now in the english premier league manchester united leapfrogged rivals manchester city at the summit following a dramatic two one victory over liverpool at old trafford all the pretty much talk about luis suarez and patrick several following the euro requires a game ban for racially abusing the frenchman the liverpool striker refused to shake every time before the game on the pitch they were quick five second half brace from wayne rooney was enough for the victory although suarez did pull one

back for the visitors the red devils are now a point above city in the table with about a month cine side of aston villa later on sunday. elsewhere russia strike up have scored his first goal for falling on his debut in their two one win over starved tom cat. title hopes with a five mil hammering of new car sold also moved into the top four with a come from behind win at sunderland chelsea and are fifteen points off the top of the table after a total defeat at everton. but you know we are in no performance today. we are sure of anything positive. difficult for us a lot of a lot of negatives to take from this game. and the little things to to improve bearing in mind africa up and champions league. over in the n.b.a. hard work they denver nuggets of wonder for just the second time this month after holding off a late rally by the indiana pacers one hundred thirteen one hundred nine the final

score tyler orson's game high twenty seven points with kate as denver ended their five game losing streak danny granger was the man is setting the tone for the faces scoring a team high twenty six points while the nuggets loss and showed off his marksmanship to hitting two out of three attempts from long range. neither team led by more than six until denver jumped out to a ten point lead in the fourth quarter indiana's paul george though helping top that deficit to fall late in the game are an awful o.-port in twenty three points resign including a three pointer which make the square one hundred eleven one hundred five in denver's favor. he would clutch free throws with eight point two seconds left while turnovers during the indiana one hundred thirteen one hundred nine the final score was the pacers lose three straight for the first time this season in golf tiger

woods is perfectly poised going into the final round of the pebble beach national he's four shots behind leader charlie wait was hit five birdies in six holes to make a late surge up the leaderboard the former world number one called it a five under sixty seven when the third round on eleven on the south korea's charlie way out right leader on fifteen under after a three sixty nine american is in second place three shots further back. that's all the sport for now here would all say a lot more for you in a couple of hours time join me then weather's next.

latest news on the week's top stories here on r t the arab league is set to the sign to future of its efforts on serious violence there escalate the u.s. gathers a coalition of the willing against damascus. the spirit of revolution returns to egypt on the first anniversary of mubarak's ousting with thousands of protesters calling for an immediate step down by the ruling military council. the people of greece have marched on the streets in anger over a new set of cuts as the government struggles to keep the country's economy afloat by security and now their bailout. and russian civil society takes center stage in politics as a group of public figures steps up to monitor the upcoming presidential elections with the backing of all the candidates.

eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t with josh the arab league will hold a series of meetings later on sunday to decide what further action to take on the crisis in syria the body will consider resuming its observer mission and the syrian opposition xpect official recognition from some of the arab states meanwhile violence escalates across the country with dozens. reported killed over the past twenty four hours an army general was assassinated in damascus on saturday following deadly twin bombings of the security service headquarters in the city of aleppo government forces are reportedly bombarding homes and several other areas although the regime denies this meanwhile the u.s. is reportedly setting up a coalition of countries willing to support the rebels and pressure of damascus into submission some now it's believed washington's desire to bring down president .