this is art international broadcasting from moscow thanks for being with us our top stories the cracks grow wider in egypt's troubled election violence swells of a banned religious candidates with the ruling military seem to be the only ones to benefit. nato fails to move forward. with russia says it reserves the right to strike back if the system did security. plus hillary clinton pitches for china's support for north korea and iran but the u.s. military. support for chinese dissidents leave beijing wary.

growth and political influence continues we'll take a look next big challenge this could be for the world. well. china has great thank you very much for being with us today it's a pleasure sir thank you for having me to china has been a mystery for scholars throughout centuries why is it such a challenge for thinkers these days up till these days everything is revealed now it's now it's a good challenge they were still in charge i was still in charge of well. you know first thousands of years they were such an insulated isolated place that others didn't come in and it's only been relatively in recent years there are

a lot of people trying to i myself have been going there for forty four years since nine hundred sixty seven but that's new for westerners to spend so much time there were two did before but now they're all over the place although i think the west who reported is not very good about china but there are a lot of people there and my wife and i have been going there for the last ten years and but it's still kind of a mystery it's because of their language it's because it's a country now with no ideology and suddenly said there david history was their religion in china and i think that's true in a sense that that's the only thing that really holds everything together now and not the only thing but you know. they have that kind of reverence for their history which they know so well through through all of the dynasties and so on and which the west has always a zero information about and that's why it's a big mystery you touched upon the ideology and the side of that china has no

ideology but how good is it to be a country without an ideology when you're striving to be a superpower isn't just enough to. certain send a message only about economic prosperity without any other ideology well there's some concern about that but china didn't have an ideology before communism really. they venerate confucius but that's that's only their religion and it's kind of a code of living so there are people searching in different directions the united states for example doesn't have a ideology i mean really. you know there's the american dream and so on but you know the people have all kinds of ideologies all kinds of religious face and so and they're all over the place and i guess the only thing that reveals everyone together is. the idea that there's freedom in the united states and you can make yourself or you can and so forth and

a little bit is is involved now in china to was not a question everyone asks themselves is china socialism or is it economical is and you know they're not even talking in terms of ideology but in terms of a regime it's not socialism but it's socialism and chinese characters now if you can figure out what that means that would be that would help a lot because no one knows what it means it's not a socialist country it's not a communist country but you know here we're sitting in russia i think about this at the end of the last century two great countries gave up communism russia and china and what's happened china is number number two in the world economically russians will stuck in the mud by day and energy too much energy in their economy into a little energy in their people from either they'd like way behind of these two countries to gave up congress a very interesting study i don't think it's been done but it's certainly an interesting question. how did china do it and and why isn't pressure couldn't

do it why do russia's not done that so to speak but we just brought up an interesting point us toward the bric countries killed it. kept up with china's growth can that be a problem for countries that china is developing so rapidly let's put this in context china is going from one hundred forty seventh in the world to number two in the economy the role in the last thirty three years but us economy is still four times bigger the u.s. economy is way of here and there clustered together are china germany and japan way down here and in. only one fourth or one third the size of the u.s. so the u.s. only has to get a couple of percentage points or three percentage for that in china you can still call it hate or nine which you're probably won't but for for for for it to be a long time in arithmetic when you can figure it out before china catches up if it

ever does you know regardless all the credit with china does face some major problems like gender inequality income inequality corruption and by mental issues could that undermine the growth well you know all of these problems and these these are the problems of china are talked about and written about in newspapers and magazines and in speeches all over china all the time this is totally open china. that their biggest problem is the growing inequality the growing income gap between urban and rural. and the answer your question is no because it's so so openly talked about and we monitor it with our institute in change and we monitor all of the provinces in the newspapers and all the provinces the two biggest issues that are in the story of pages and in the news pages are corruption and the environment

and dealing dealing with both of those these are issues that are not hidden these are the most talked about face in china and the leadership the broad china this. or is that leadership that you have to imagine can and can continue to deal with those problems and can. do a little better job as it goes along now let's talk and paralyse as china is slowly growing ties with weaker asia and african countries the kind of aid the chinese giving to africa and to some other countries differs greatly from what the west where the west was giving it was it was a government to government you know who knows what happened in the money the chinese make a deal they say here's the deal we will build you an airport we will be jewish sports stadiums and so forth and you agree to sell us or the energy we need at market price. and it's the africans many africans describe as

a win win. range meant versus what the west has been doing with their aid programs all these years so china is absolutely connected with africa as well as as well as asia because of how smart they've been in the arrangements they have to to create win win situations for those countries so it's economy only and not their will to evolve into or encourage states to build an empire you know china china has never been an acquisition or country to begin with but they're making their arrangements and their deals not to acquire anyone or to build an empire but to it's mostly on an economic basis to to to assure themselves of the resources that they need for the rapid growth they are experiencing and are in our view will continue to

experience so here's what also many people think that with this economic and military press china is poised to become the center of the new small. world it's an elephant lot of. all the world and by the way there they have been building their military but they still you know the u.s. has a military that's equal to all the other militaries of the world put together and i've heard of we've heard a lot of talk about multi i call the world but last century it was the soviet union us this century to be very simple minded about it this century is the us and china that bipolar that world is going to be dominated by the bipolar connection of china and the us and people will make countries will make decisions and calibrate their their actions against what they perceive will be the response of the u.s. and or china that there will be a bipolar world break placing the soviet union the u.s.

but on a very different basis so not for not we guess a cold war but sort of a cold war but with the soviet union on an ideological basis with china on economic what do you think china's strategy is in relations to russia china as it were here's the i'll summarize the strategy russia is the biggest producer of oil in the world china is the biggest consumer consumer of energy in the world that that dictates the strategy john i speak with you very much for this interview thank you very much. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you

knew you don't know i'm tom are welcome to the big picture. to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations that we are. and the shadow is encroaching upon all over. the early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the world forms looming empire that the united states is trying to insist on issue most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around the world. we don't have power bases on america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean bases we don't have

any french bases or you know we just all american bases in in for us our bases are fine or the noise is our noise of those bhalo us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people a day since the into world war two the spaces i've been. working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions linger thing else you get everything you needed. leaves keep this is psyche to koori the room. two groups then each. make to feel. it's. civilization you notice their absence. but this is their life outside

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now i will come along to the sports headlines here's what we've got for you the race for europe so i ask our moscow fresh local multi three male to take ownership of the one remaining champions league qualifying spots in the russian from the early. staying put all heading stateside russian media reported andre caroline goes to join the new being relocated brooklyn nets owned by compatriot billionaire mikael profit off. and reinforcements at the ready n.h.l. stars you have kenny malkin and pavel datsyuk arrive to bolster the russian ice hockey squad at the world championship which starts on friday. before football and sasco moscow have moved second in the russian premier league following a three no win a locomotive talk about saving themselves while still in the hunt for champions league football at the start of the game were down to ten men only on portuguese depend manuel de costa seeing red for a foul and say don't be the ivorian dusted himself down and come back to the penalty himself the goal of the twenty eight of the season then in the second half

saw it on top which is what i'm from close finish but the visitors two goals to the good and then sealed all three points ten minutes later with a sublime free kick the three nil victory means the. points clear at the number in the race to qualify for europe from their competition seems a. well earlier in that i had missed the chance to pull away from the rest of the chasing pack they drew one one at spartak moscow despite taking an early made kevin haranguing the german foreign hard after just three minutes to ask our level spot at what level early in the second period for a brazilian audi getting on the end of an emmanuel m n e k cross cross and proving that if at first you don't succeed and try and try again when the final score and i start on seventy points a point for the back but without a win in three. well elsewhere champions in inked were held to a two two draw out rubin on his abilities man and now undefeated in the league

since september and he moved up to faith after a two two draw are in the relegation group volga are still under the threat of automatic relegation after a three one defeat at home to take a point above the relegation playoff spots after a two two draw at relegated melchett. well let's see what all that has done to the top of the table champions in a running away at the top it's the race for second which is interesting of course a place in next season's champions league at stake so this car there right now with two games to go they have a two point lead from the nama who have set to. still have a chance of sneaking second while angie that destined for a euro police spot bets. now in spain meanwhile roma dritte have secured the league title jos a marine his man wrapping up the championship with two games still to play courtesy of a three nil when i went off letting bilbao gonzalo. christiane i rebelled all night to get the celebration started in the basque country. domestic jumping ship since

two thousand and eight maintaining their seven point lead over barcelona in the process manager is a marina becoming the first coach to win four titles in fairly different countries and also set a new spanish record of one hundred points if they win their final two games they've already painted a twenty two year old school record no wonder there were such scenes of celebration . meanwhile in england tottenham a newcastle champions league hopes received a boost spurs secured an emphatic four one victory over bolton to remain in the drop zone brace from poppyseed saying short newcastle took all three points away from chelsea spurs a fourth and ahead of newcastle on goal difference only will chelsea four points adrift. now we're just over a month to go until euro two thousand and twelve u.a. for referees have gathered for a workshop in training session in warsaw and among the issues discussed was the attempt to clamp down on players' confronting much officials respect means also to respect the referees so players. in form of the will be informed that mobbing the

player is not allowed or and the referee knows that if they are surrounded by players some yellow cards one or more are to be expected by that effie. now barcelona may have lost their spanish crown but they can take comfort from the fact that the highest paid team in professional sports the catalan side shelling out almost one hundred sixty four thousand u.s. dollars per week to its players on average that figure trumping second place real madrid by more than sixteen thousand the spanish rivals of followed closely by manchester city and chelsea european football and dominating the top spots with u.s. sporting franchises make of their first appearance in a los angeles lakers basketball players the richest they're paying out approximately one hundred eighteen thousand dollars while place poolside at the new york yankees a say in the report carried out by industry analysts sporting intelligence.

now russia's biggest basketball star could be making a move back to the n.b.a. to join up with the league's only russian team owner according to the country sports media under kirilenko has a verbal agreement in place with a view to signing a three year deal with mikhail prokhorov brooklyn nets the says car must go forward he is currently preparing for the year only final four has a longstanding relationship with the nets owner and he said to be siding on the with the nearly relocated club at the end of the european season kirilenko return to the army man as a free agent during the n.b.a. lockout deciding to play out the season in russia despite lucrative offers from the us the thirty one year old has a shocked to see sixty percent average from the field this year to date it's. now in baseball and things are looking up for the los angeles dodgers fans after a new consortium including local basketball legend magic johnson officially took control of the team the move and the tumultuous area after bankruptcy last june and johnson has big plans and what we want to do is bring their pride back to. this

organization we want to win. we want to have the best fan experience they've ever had. we want to make sure it's friendly as well as the fans of be safe now the n.f.l. has been rocked by the news that one of the best players from the ninety's has passed away former chargers dolphins and patriots linebacker junior say out dying in his california home at age forty three from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest say or started his career in one thousand nine hundred ninety playing for san diego until two thousand and two he led the chargers to the team's only super bowl appearance in one thousand nine hundred ninety four a loss to the san francisco forty nine ers say out tragically becoming the eighth member of that year's war to die prematurely he had made the n.f.l. the all decade team of the ninety's before retiring for good in two thousand and nine. years this was his home this is words roots where. any couldn't do enough of

the fuel for the youth than anybody could help he helped and i think people remember him for that and they should. go for now where former world number one tiger woods is preparing to make his first start since his worst masters ever wells fargo championship gets underway on thursday this is words first event after his disappointing performance at the masters last month where he finished fifteen shots behind win a bubba watson and tied in forty eighth place a surprising result considering he was victorious in the build up to all got stuck winning a play held by five shots the fourteen time major champion this week looking to reclaim the title he won in two thousand and seven. where russia finalizing their preparations ahead of the world championships which start on friday there at machine bush did with a strong reinforcement from the n.h.l. including have gagne malkin and pavel datsyuk meaning russia are aiming for gold.

this in utah i believe dealer has now been in charge of the russian national ice hockey team for almost a year and the world championship will be the biggest test for the coach so far despite the fact that russia's main aim is building a team for their home olympics and twenty fourteen winning the world title would act as a huge confidence boost ahead of those searching games if the team plays like i want them to play i'll be satisfied with should see the tech six we're supposed to be applying however the result is very important as well and if we have a soul a team ready to battle we will achieve a good result the red machine has already received reinforcements from the n.h.l. the color of the avalanche seem on the seems to be the first choice between the pipes while the n.h.l. is best forward you game that is worth being wins will surely add more goals to the team stalley and the detroit red wings center bottle that soup will join the side in sweden but neither marking not at soup has yet to leave to the world

championship trophy especially when we're good friends with doug zuckerman it's good that detroit were knocked out of the stanley cup and he can join the team he's one of the best players in the world it's a pleasure to play alongside him and hopefully we'll get a positive result this time milligan of still hasn't named his final roster and has a reserve of three places four players from north america whose teams will be eliminated in the second round of the playoffs however nothing can stop russia's youngest forward even gave up from going to his first ever world championship. in one thousand year old is often compared with mark him and the pair were playing in the same line at the training camp. but you all can is a great player and of course i'd love to play with them and that would be an honor for me to be in the same line as them but it's up to the coaches to decide the red machine face is going to be in the open new instead of the two of the world championship and as usual russia the favorites with a new behind the bench and

a solid rule on the ice and snow you both have a r t. well that is all the sport for now i'll have more for you in a little under two hours time to join in that. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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