time for a look at the headlines now haryanvi as the syrian government embraces a un backed peace plan members of the anti us out of position struggle to come together with a single unified purpose some of the rebel leaders walked out on that arrivals during a conference in turkey designed to rally the opposition. braga conversation between leaders of russia and america and of course on my way to the nuclear security summit and so it's walked away the cold war nostalgia on some republican

presidential candidates leaving us politicians going to moscow as washington's number one fan. of protesters in britain call for the hundred riot police to place justice as one activist seriously injured a student demonstration lines themselves. more than fifty students were hurt in twenty ten protesting against university commission hikes. with u.s. and russia not seeing eye to eye on washington's plans to deploy these cells in europe u.s. ambassador richard burt told r.t. you know with countries are stuck in the past we must move on to me it's not next. ambassador richard burton negotiated the first start treaty the strategic arms reduction treaty with the soviet union that was years ago there's now a new start but according to some including yourself progress has stalled thank you

for sitting down with us i want to begin with that start with sides when you start with side in april twenty ten you yourself have said that progress has stalled how much does the u.s. plans to install missile defense there and russia's opposition to it have to do with well i think it's a factor i mean there are a number of reasons that i think the process is slow down i mean this is a bitter political year obviously a new presidency and a new old presidency and in russia presidential elections in the united states i think the russians are having second thoughts about rely less on nuclear weapons which is certainly a part of american policy but the disagreement on missile defense is also an important factor russia specifically has said of late especially that it's concerned about new modifications of some three incept their missiles which i

understand are believed or are fast enough to shoot down russian missiles in the sand so to russian that's why the elections and despite how important national security platform has for the russian people for elections it seems like it's really out there for the kremlin despite the change that we're about to see i don't think it's very helpful to talk about all these technical intricacies i think there is a real technical difference over the capabilities not of the existing system that nato is planning to deploy over the next two or three years we're really talking about a system that might be deployed after twenty twenty. and it's not even clear. given the fact the u.s. is going to have to reduce its defense budget simply to meet its fiscal problems at home whether that new system will ever be deployed so i think there is time for the united states russia and others to sit down and talk about these issues why do you think you were asked has failed to convince russia that one missile defense system

would not be directed against them and two why can't them can't they give them those guarantees well i think that's a very good question and i think it's because not only russia but the united states are still locked into this bilateral bipolar cold war mentality and it's a problem both the united states and russia have had trouble adjusting to a new multi-polar world and dealing with a new range of threats the problem nuclear weapons today isn't that the united states is going to attack russia or russia is going to attack the united states the problem nuclear weapons today is the spread of nuclear weapons in particular to unsustainable countries say for example pakistan or even that nuclear weapons could fall into the hands of terrorists and this is a problem where the united states and russia should be work should work together rather than focusing looking backwards and there were you mirror i'd like to talk a bit about president elect. obviously coming back to the kremlin he has

experience and can see this year he's openly criticized it. and says that it undermines really the trust between the two countries how do you see him coming back to the kremlin and playing into to both brussels foreign policy in that sense and to disarm well like i think almost everybody else i don't have the slightest idea. he you know he can he can continue with the kind of. cold war rhetoric that he ramped up during the election campaign and blame the united states for all kinds of nefarious activities behind the scenes or he can take a more. fracturable course he couldn't be more putin in the early part of his tenure in the early part. of the two thousand two thousand and one two thousand and two and see practical solutions i think there is a practical solution for this ain't even

a solution but as long as both sides kind of treat this as more of a theological issue they won't make headway what about president obama how does that play into his reelection campaign the anti missile issue is not a big issue in the united states i mean the iran issue certainly is. but even even even so it's really domestic economics but obama is in a tough political spot because i think he would like to find an arms control solution to this problem and solve it he already backed away from the bush plan to deploy he said he's more capable missiles in poland and the radar in the czech republic but i think that he's got us he's got a u.s. senate. with some republicans are making it difficult making it difficult for him to make i think give him the room for maneuver that he needs to find a practical solution with. and also

a budget. right you know that's that's that's a key issue here and we're talking about capabilities that are more than a decade out that that actually the the uniformed military the joint chiefs of staff are not great advocates of missile defense and so it's it would be a tragic irony if the united states and russia unable to move ahead on arms control based on a system that will never be deployed in the first place what about the research that we have to start over and do you think has it felt you know i don't think the reset has failed at all in fact on some issues like afghanistan there's a lot of cooperate. and i think on the fighting drugs for example i even think in areas like syria where two or three weeks ago there was a lot of. angry rhetoric about the two sides positions even though i think even on syria the two sides are becoming

a little more pragmatic and moving towards each other so now there are a lot of strategic reasons for the united states and russia to work together. in particular you know there are two big countries that face big problems challenges spoke to mexican international and most of those issues i think there are similarly you know like you mentioned earlier that for america in an election year missile defense is not a big issue but you run it's why what's the threat well that's we've got to remember to remember that in the united states we been at war in the middle east for over ten years there's concern also of course that iran it with it had nuclear weapons could threaten israel and seen as an important ally and there's also the threat that if the weapons other countries other in the region like turkey or egypt might also fire and so it's the overall instability with the arab awakening of the nuclearization of iran and the united states' involvement in that region which is

is a matter of concern a lot of critics though would say that one there is not any proof that iran has a nuclear weapon or is developing a nuclear weapon and also that there's a risk of repeating. weapons of mass destruction mistake made with iraq with what it's like you said it was and it wasn't just a mistake i mean i think that clearly in retrospect the information to suggest that iraq had that it was building a nuclear weapon was a flop but you know i mean the problem with iran no one is claiming you know that i'm aware of that they have a nuclear weapon the question is how close are you to a nuclear weapon and i think people honestly disagree. on that question but i think there's a general agreement including agreement between moscow and washington that if if iran were to apply or a nuclear weapons capability that would not be nice a stabilizing development for the region we disagree on what the consequences might

be and how serious they would be but nobody would i think like to live in a crowded or near live in or near a crowded nuclear region where iran maybe egypt maybe turkey israel already possess a nuclear weapons capability that is not a very happy future what do you say to critics who say why can israel have nuclear weapons and iran not both in their hands and it's not a question of saying israel can have nuclear weapons in iran not it's a question of doing what we would like to do which is move towards global zero and other global zero israel wouldn't have nuclear weapons either but i happen to think that a nuclear weapons free zone which would include both israel and iran where neither country would have nuclear weapons would be would be much better than the current situation where you mentioned earlier rhetoric building around iran and media reports suggesting that israel may in fact strike you ron of course it's all speculation no one can guess what will happen but if that was to happen and the

infrastructure in iran was destroyed it would lessen the threat somehow i'm not sure the israelis could actually destroy your iranian nuclear infrastructure it's very dispersed some of it is hard and some of it's underground so they might be able to set it back but i don't think they could destroy it. and the consequences would be very unpredictable i would assume that the iranians would retaliate in one way or another and the prospects for a regional conflict would grow so it would be a very destabilizing step in my view i'm not a proponent of an israeli strike against iran russia and the u.s. have very different approaches. ron is there any way that they could possibly work together to move forward on it start to happen back with the six party talks if they start again is that an option do you know i think i think they're i think they're working together now next month the so-called p five the permanent members

of the security council together with germany the five plus one and cathy ashton from the european union will be sitting down with the iranians to talk about a negotiated solution which would potentially permit the iranians to engage in peaceful uses of nuclear energy constraining their options for developing and deploying nuclear weapons so you know this is a promising development diplomacy in the in the past has not succeeded with the iranians so if iranians are very sophisticated tough negotiators but this is an area where the united states and russia are working together in terms of iran and missile defense and all of the issues touched on realistically. you seem to be a bit of an optimist which is a good thing but realistically how do you see all these issues playing out in terms of the global zero initiative within the next couple of years well i think they're

absolutely critical you have to be an optimist but i think the big problem is is correctly you correctly identified it is that if we fail. to. head off. the acquisition of nuclear weapons i think that it's going to open. the door to several other countries acquiring nuclear weapons and maybe three or four other countries in the region could acquire nuclear weapons that would not only be very destabilizing but you know it's the danger and the twenty first century is the danger of the spread of nuclear weapons not the build up by the united states and russia do you think that global zero is possible in the twenty first century it's certainly possible that in the twenty first century the question is whether it's possible in the next twenty years. thank you very much for being with us.

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a report on. a syrian government embraces a u.n. back peace plan members of the. struggle to come together with a single unified purpose some rebel leaders walked out on their power rivals during a conference in turkey designed to rally the opposition. a private conversation between the leaders of russia and america has caught on like the nato nuclear security summit in seoul that sparked a wave of cold war the styles are among some republican presidential candidates are leading us politician refer to moscow as washington's number one for. protesters in britain call for heavy handed riot police to face justice as well not

just seriously injured in the student demonstration finds himself in the dark and fifty students were hurt in twenty ten by protesting against university tuition hikes. the months ahead of the data section from the world of sports. well welcome to sports on r t coming to you live from moscow with ramana cossar first stop the headlines. and all the dream champions league one zero up oil suffer a three nil forms of pizza shows him over the years real madrid. and another step to glory russia's maria sharapova is proof of the semi's at the sony ericsson open in miami. and park take their titles for ryder from finland two points the inaugural ball or circle snowmobile rays held in russia says he hopes early hard.

and let's get the ball rolling with football and the champions league where cypriot sensation an experienced their first major blow of this year's campaign in their first leg against the giants a reality madrid remail the final score but dreads could not break the deadlock until the seventy fourth minute of the match as everything pointed to a draw at that stage however some time to substitutions by jos in the radio ensured victory for his side with french international karim benzema posting a brace and a brazilian midfielder as he and the other one to record a crushing win for the ninth time european champions and. we knew it to the list parts of the game would be difficult for them but. we know the trucker and were so low to come in when the other team was closer because it was the right moment to. to do it's what. it was again with characteristics of

a possible from zero zero because they were. lost in the but. surely things will be harder for us we are not so much as a team always will give our best in the game so we can bid farewell to the champions league in the best possible way. now chelsea all returning with an importance away goal at benfica but it was also. been for seventy five minutes however that seems seconds away it's a fair amount of taurus and sell it on call that will ensure victory for the londoners with the ivory coast striker scoring his second well this year's champions league season. yeah greenfield think it was the next in performance from our team. and it was difficult play against them because. they haven't lost cheerful a couple of years and you saw why their good side are some good. with your players and practice have plays with

a physical player said to have. always so that we look. defensively and well organized and time i was trying to those two to school call it with. chelsea beat us here one meal but we believe that we were also able to do a c. on the return match because usually if you can always scores from pulling away we're going to london with the same belief and the same confidence as if the score had been neil neil one neil or even been featured on this match. stay with football work at a cup quarter final six plays in england on tuesday evening and them or through to the semi's after with three one victory over bolton at white hart lane remember that your original match had to be abandoned after for greece while both suffered a cardiac arrest after forty one forty one minutes in the previous encounter eleven days ago everton is the other side making it to the last four following their soon they'll away went at sunderland after their original and did in one run all draw at

goodison park. while there was a high profile a managerial sacking in that city interim alang coach close to run your area received his marching orders after the side's dismal run of form in sea reaugh and there was a really have only one victory in their last ten the games and languished in a lowly eighth place twenty two points behind sable topping rivals ac milan in surrey also went out some are say in the last sixteen of the champions league earlier this month now youth coach and us from watching what he will take over as caretaker. said it's now where world number two maria sharapova tsuki huge step forwards easing leaving china six three six logged in one hour and eight minutes to reach the semifinals of the sony ericsson open in the united states in her bid to win her first miami its all despite three times being in the final the russian had

lost her previous four meetings with the lead goal in straight sets this time return points were key to success for sure rather well as she won sixty nine percent of them three time grand slam champion advances to play in the fourth paralegals now to give ten more who passed american serena williams in straight sets. it was over on the men's sides and the other three times sony ericsson open a runner up and number two seed rafael nadal reached the quarterfinals for this six consecutive year the spaniard ousted japan schema should glory six four six four in what seems to be his biggest challenge thus far in the tournaments with twenty five year old absolve will face succeeding show for it so in the quarterfinals it was meanwhile the top seed and defending champion of the jockey also cruised into the water finals defeating seven seem to see the ryszard gask a seven five six three and will play fifth seed terror next.

fish who became the frank american after his semifinal run at grand and working towards eleven one fifty one of his fifty three first serve the odds to prevail over nicole almagro for the third consecutive time sixty six seven six three. elsewhere got puts of sarvis ousted we are only on cd player remaining in the men's singles draw by itself and grigor dimitrov seven six six two in the fourth round match. sambo is a sports invented in the soviet union and it helps and may vary given you've got equal rights to his cult status and our very own arts on grigoriadis watch some young stars go head to head at the latest world cup events right here in moscow. the last emperor of mixed martial arts fillery million incur a living legend considered by many to be the greatest fighter of all time so his

incredible m.m.a. record military years without defeat speaks for itself. however his path to glory began in court but somebody went further acclaim seven russian and four world titles and the million and is not about to stop a bit achievement and he's about to stake a claim to yet another world crown in november. as always further is in great condition do it to go he won the russian championship here in moscow and this year he will represent the country at the wrong championships in means meanwhile back at the convert some world cup in moscow where in the under sixty eight kilo category russia's russia morada may be just a minute and a half to defend his title against valeri to get now or for a mania and another champion saying his crown and the under seventy four k. class doesn't have enough also joining us with league three fellow russian alexander one know who is the most recent domestic champion but. i'm very satisfied

with the victory here but i have to admit that the tournament turned out pretty not as hard as it could have been after my first bout i got straight into the final because my opponent was disqualified on two big boys now. only one of clinch the title with a narrow win on points and the under eighty two class i'll deal and the two thousand and five world champion me three similar outsmarted by dean import in the heaviest division of the competition which is under ninety kilos. despite a fare that most of the finals were all russian the geography will disport is growing wider national symbol for the ration is our daughter to cross the globe a million that it simply shows to become a part of the olympic family may now have film a ground. r.t. . and finally the inaugural snowmobile race was held this weekend at the

polar circle in siberia and finished driver finished first on the extreme track and our very own correspondents. was also there for us. the endless and silent arctic tundra near silly hard c.t. two thousand five hundred kilometers from moscow territory covered with nine months of the year that somewhere around one hundred snowmobile did their wills two to the young one can really braving the minus twenty degree temperature to find out who's the weakest. you can see from my face i got some bites on much except although i was. well protected. speech so fast that there's always a risk that something happens in the race color is two hundred and thirty kilometers with just three stops every snowmobile carries a g.p.s. navigation system for safety and for the spectators to follow the competitors

a route via the internet some of the drivers reached speeds of one hundred and seventy few hours and among the dozens of men taking part in this dangerous venture there was one woman not getting anything to say i do think i'll be battling with a man to try and win this race the race itself is a real challenge for me it's very long and i want to test myself to see if i can just get through it slowly harf was over the years as a place of exile and imprisonment during its four hundred year history a part of the track was located near the so-called they're too old and listeria way constructed between one thousand nine hundred forty seven to nine hundred fifty four which in walled thousands of prisoners from the soviet gulags and was never finished however there were no fatalities this time around and the race was finished the quickest to do this was actually finish the race and given a line in completing the course in two hours and forty nine minutes before winning

the race and of course i was expecting a lot. will be the first one it's always a surprise however the really wasn't the only unique event taking place. as the locals call to celebrated reindeer herders day alone speak teacher is the chance to experience everyday life among the ethnic minorities of the north and to watch conditions in their national sports such as reindeer races. and jumping your slippers the unique weather conditions and locals like this will show you this snowmobile race near the top of any must do evangelist and r g. i'll see you in just under a couple of hours and forget to check out our you tube channel at artsy sports news and will you like it thanks for watching.

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