in the russian capital. just in time for the headlines now. gathering in central cairo. unofficial lead in the first democratic presidential polls since the ouster of hosni mubarak official results are expected to be announced in. the eurozone a stay of execution. takes the lead in parliamentary elections but the debt crisis will still be giving g. twenty leaders plenty of headaches mexico. the e.u.

says it's committed to bringing in a go against iran to force. as moscow hosts an international conference on to iran's nuclear program the president of the islamic state says they could stop enriching uranium to a high level if europe agrees to supply it instead. of the headlines we do sit down with an american lawyer and democratic party politician who also served as a u.s. senator chris dodd he's next he's now in the focus. christoper forward hugh us senator it's great to have you with us today english to be with us so you regularly meet with the russian leaders what do you think what's your

perception of what will change u.s. relationships now with putin back in your face well it is changing and all for the better i mean there are always going to be. it was going to be patchy you get involved in but when you consider that my head of gray hair i've been around my very first trip to russia has nine hundred seventy five i had a black hair i was a freshman thirty year old congressman and this is a very different place and a very exciting place to be so i'm i'm very high an optimistic on the relationship i've often felt that. that americans and russians actually are almost almost related i think we're more comfortable with each other than we are with almost any other people in the globe and there's a theory that the united states and russia can't live without it i mean it's what it's like it's like a family member that we we go through these patches and this is family members do they'll love each other one minute and they'll be scrapping with each other the next but i think we're more comfortable with each other the way almost all with

anybody else in many ways and so i'm very optimistic about the relationship but what do you think has a better chance of sealing the deal with putting romney or obama that's that's an impossible question to answer my view would be that both of them. would understand how valuable this relationship is how important it is this relationship is far too important russia place too important a role today and will continue to do so and so you want to maintain that relationship so whether we're talking about syria or iran or. the european union's problems today economically and every single instance russia's important player in the need to maintain that relationship well we're gonna lose the fact that we do have dear feelings towards each other facts are stubborn and russia and the united states can't really find common ground on key security issues just mentioned syria also the european missile defense of course is a very sore point what does it take to break the ice leadership change you said you

don't know that it's an impossible question but then what common threat what other common threats can help common economic interests listen i would wish there was a lot more cooperation on syria at this particular. but the fact there isn't i think i understand russia's perspective on this not that i agree with it necessarily but i think i understand it but that situation is troublesome as it is ought not to sort of deal rail much larger set of issues dealing with global security issues global economic issues which must transcend even is an issue as important as syria's now that russia and china have blocked sponsor tearin security resolution which could entailed a possible for invasion of syria is that what's keeping the united states from invading the country or are there other reasons and that's the major what i think were uneasy about you know who you arming who's who's the other side i mean you may not you may wish that assad were leaving that there'd be an opportunity for more openness in syria but but you know it's who really is this other side what are you

getting with all of this what does that mean in the end is that these people you necessarily want running the country or is it just one faction versus another trying to gain political control and that you may not be coming out with a better result necessarily so i think it's complicated the tendency of the news media is to say these are all the good guys these are all the bad guys i'm not sure it's quite that simple despite the temptation to want to draw those conclusions but could the u.s. really sustain another war at this point well that's another matter that's a domestic our own personal reasons i think president obama's correct in this regard despite the pressure from some in the american congress today for arming the opposition in syria i think candidly we're kind of exhausted this has been a very lengthy more than a decade decade and a half and frankly as we're pulling back now out of afghanistan we're done in iraq except for the troops that are remaining for the reasons you know i think the american public right now would like to sort of pull back and not be as engaged as

we have been in these places and to get engaged again who knows for how long and how deeply you'd be involved in it because of a reason as well for us to. stay out of that why do you think words have become so inherent to us foreign policy i mean if you look at it it's a president goes to a new war why is that i don't think that a lot of us inherited in some ways i mean the arab spring this was an orchestrated by the united states or anyone this was obviously this was a groundswell the split occurring in that part of the world and i know others i think assume somehow we orchestrated all of this nothing could be further from the truth what was happening in those in the squares in cairo or homegrown people wanting to express themselves one of the basic freedoms that any human being would want regardless of where they live in the world and so trying to understand it and help provide support where you could without crossing lines here i think were natural phenomena us and i think we are probably correct in being supportive of

those voices seeking to have greater freedoms and greater opportunities for themselves the distinction between doing that and actually becoming in gauged in it as we were in libya for instance and the ouster of khadafi. is a is a delicate. point which you cross over and you become more meshed in the in the in the conflict and i think president obama rightly is cautious about us becoming too quickly involved by supplying arms to one side or the other or becoming engaged directly ourselves in all of this despite our willingness to be supportive i know that you've been an avid critic of the u.s. war in iraq he look at least. after the invasion after cut off he was ousted and killed terminated. there's been quite a mayhem inside the country. really pulled back after that could you see another iraqi scenario unfolding in libya well again i don't even say i think what you're right i thought you were going to finish the sentence by saying with who's running

the place today i mean in a sense that's that the dangers in all of these things you you know the devil you know the devil you don't know kind of situation so. clearly it was so repressive what was occurring there and libya may have to go through a period here where you don't go if an immediate transition from ousting a brutal dictator to a jeffersonian democrats it shows up there are periods here of transition which libya is going through that are bitter painful to watch but that libya does need america right now just as iraq that i'm there as well and others and again. this is a case where i think russia could play a role i know they didn't want to necessarily be involved in supplying military hardware and gauging in the conflict as it was developing but i don't think that a lot of now cause you to not find a way to become involved in a constructive way to help that country get on its feet and find its center and give it an opportunity to grow and to provide some decent opportunities for people

in that country so the fact that you rejected the idea of being involved in the ouster khadafi ought not to preclude you it seems to me if now turning around and say we didn't do that this is the outcome how can we be constructive and help now get this country back on its feet and stabilize it for good a little bad back to the reset policy that obama has started. you know always leave brought a warming up in russia yes relationships and from what it looks from the outside to sites are meeting they're eager to exchange they're nice to each other but when it comes to time missile defense there is really nothing you can do about it how much of it of recent is about form rather than substance now that you look at it well again i'm not involved today as i was in the past but i think a lot of it probably is about more about form but it's an important issue i mean again the the optics of it are important in what it but it means in terms of building a relationship of mutual respect the cold war is over with and yet we still find

people acting as if it had gone anywhere and it has it's been relegated to the dustbin of history and that's to everyone's benefit and it seems to be we need to be thinking about this relationship in the. in the twenty first century and how we have more common problems to address but both sides to use sort of anti us and anti russian referee when it comes to prayer lection campaign here's my question does obama even need recent policy for his reelection well again i you know the issues are always domestic and it's economic questions and again the rhetoric of campaigns we've seen everywhere they were not unique in that regard can sometimes become excessive. but i don't think this issue necessarily is going to have a dominant role in the in the presidential election despite the fact that some model i think the presence of a good job in foreign policy and i think there's a general respect for the fact that he's done that good job they do know their disagreements with certain aspects of it the issue of this campaign is going to be about one issue and one issue only and that is the economy and whether or not

people are optimistic about the future or not and if they have a sense that things are getting better as tough as they are but they're getting better under this administration the president will be reelected overwhelmingly people have a sense it's getting worse not better it's going to be a close race so we're going to hear any anti russian rhetoric just to get some republican guard on to present obama i mean you've heard some of governor romney to some i'm not sure where that comes from it's kind of seems out of place it almost seems like it's the kind of conversation might have had one hundred fifty not and you know two thousand and twelve christoper thank you very much for this interview sophia. yemen both of the war lords look even though we have a lot of illegal cold groups. called citizens who says all.

right enough to my mouth it was like one of many at that marriage that wasn't forced marriage and spoke with maddy when i was fifteen years old you can. liberate other when and you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun only effective social change yours will be the afghans themselves ask again men and women we believe i'm going to spawn and not try to cross paths without the part of the fish on its chemical the shell and that it comes to actually stop people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan. the culture is the same i understand not really underscoring the limits on the ground being in the population the market is the state of the american empire isn't suffering from military overreach and can be continued to afford such

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the headlines on odds egyptians are gathering in central cairo islamists claim an early on the official lead in the first democratic presidential polls since the ouster of hosni mubarak official results expected to be announced on thursday. greece's branch of the eurozone a stay of execution after a probe bailout party takes the lead in parliamentary elections by the debt crisis will still be giving the g. twenty leaders plenty of headaches as they meet in mexico. and the e.u. says it's committed to bringing in the oil embargo against iran into force by july as moscow hosts an international conference on tyrone's nuclear program the president of the islamic state says they could stop enriching uranium to

a high level if europe agrees to supply the fuel instead. of the story to you neil your world of sports and a giant of world football bites the dust of the european championship this certainly hard really to years ago the dutch were in the world cup final another in the plane home after the group stages of the european championships more not just the. good to have you with us this is sports of a plenty had over the next ten eleven minutes or so including all this. orange squash to the netherlands exit euro two thousand and twelve of the group stages following defeat to a christiane no knowledge inspired portugal. green no more webb simpson secure is his first ever major title after a thrilling final round up the u.s.

open. truck testament certainties on the hopefuls gear up for london twenty twelve at the on the all is now minsky memorial meet held just outside moscow. let's start out those european championships who are another two squads of book third quarter final birds but twenty ten world cup finalists the netherlands aren't one of them the over a year feeling to get out of the group stages even for more on sunday night's action here is kate partridge. germany and portugal going through to the quarter finals of euro two thousand and twelve on the grounds of them on their final match using group three the sample group of down to one well first down was portugal against holland and the dutch needed to win by a two goal advantage and also hope that the danes did them a favor by between germany the dutch started well rafael van de vos he opened off eleven minutes but after that he became the christiane our now though show talismanic portuguese paper finally finding his scoring base and he leveled up to

twenty eight minutes and then after how the post again how the goal disallowed our side in the second half i made a post of chances he managed to get the winner off to seventy four minutes to ensure that portugal won two one the portuguese they maintained their unbeaten record in the group stage of the year raised but for the dutch it was a shock and they've now lost them three straight games for the first time ever in the european championships and they get knocked out of a major tournament in the group stage for the first time since the. one thousand nine hundred and they finished bottom of the great won by bringing the vote that was the time then germany versus denmark and germany started well they could all be on his one hundred appearances for germany at the age of just twenty seven here in print after eighteen minutes but then there's a bit of a surprise on the cons as denmark equalised marco kindly the man who shot the dutch in there i've been in again he came back to equalise no one point to look like the germans even though that won the first two matches could actually go out and he hit the prime start the fifty two minutes and then germany do what they so often doing politically of the year as they found

a victory nine minutes to go along and he come on chris first appearance in germany he got the winner to when he was germany finished top of the group they go through denmark they finished their hearts were broken. all right so let's take a look at the final reckoning in group b. a quite extraordinary sight at the bottom of the netherlands failing to register even a single point to alter their three games table toppers germany the greeks in the last eight while portugal and the czech republic head to head first place in the semifinal it's. been a weekend to remember for webb simpson on the greens the american left to celebrate his first ever major golf title with victory at the u.s. open on absorbing day an overcast olympic club in some from the last major tiger woods one of the u.s. open four years ago on sitting five shots off the lead following run three he still had a chance to repeat that feat on sunday but the former world number one would quickly fall out of contention top score on the day was a sixty seven from first strong leader michael thompson enough to secure him second

place overall the day however was to belong to twenty six year old simpson the north carolina solid throughout with a particular free on hole six through eight straight birdies that meant joint overnight leader mcdowell was realistically the only player who could catch him later on but a missed attempt for birdie on the eighteenth sealed his fate simpson thus becoming the fifteen different winner in a row. you know. i was honest with you i believed in myself that i can win a major maybe not this soon i've only played in i think this is my fourth or fifth and you know i just gained all the respect for the guys who have won multiple majors because it's so hard to do him in the level of pressure is so much greater than a regular event. that brings us to tennis for roger federer is wimbledon preparations are being dealt a blow the world number three suffering a surprise straight sets defeat to german tommy haas in the final of the jerry webber open federal went into the decider

a five time champion hollie an overwhelming favorite only competing in the tournaments after being given a wildcard entry but eighty seven the live of the german crowd by normally taking the first set on a tie break the expected federer comeback never materializing with wrapping up a seven six six when. people were at last year's runners up to two wins away from lifting the twenty twelve n.b.a. title they hate turning up the pressure to melt oklahoma's resistance on sunday to take a two one lead in their best of seven final series le bron james famously a non entity in last year's finals against dallas continuing to push his critics by scoring twenty nine points and grabbing fourteen weak points in the ninety one eighty five victory. missed ten or fifteen shots in the first but still finished with a very credible twenty five point seven rebounds on seven assists the series stays

in miami for now with game four and choose the. show to make a game changer place and that's what kind of promise so for want to do. a game changer plays and whatever it takes fourteen when i just want to step up and . be there for months. jorge lorenzo was stretched his advantage at the top of the moto g.p. charts the sponsored speeding to victory at the british grand prix to extend his lead over casey stoner to twenty five points in the overall standings lorenzo who started from fourth on the grid overtaking reigning champion stoner with nine laps to go the yamaha rider not looking back after that crease in his advantage in the final few laps still not would hold on to second spot while the australians on the team in droves completed the podium lineup the same trio top the current standings in the scene which. made. one the food fight. fortunately for us. i got that bundle in my piece so it's wonderful

we are making but to see something now saw things followed to the world of. finally one of the most popular events on the athletics calendar has wrapped up here in russia is now meant schema morrill meet as part of the i doubly world challenge tour other tracks athletes from across the globe might go to watch the action for us this weekend. there's namond scheme in moral athletics competition held in moscow every year has attracted athletes from over fifty different countries but while competitors from all over the world attracted to an event held fifty kilometers outside the russian capital that's because it's held an a.f. status since two thousand and is now also one of the associations world challenge meetings it's also a very old competition now it's interesting to note that this particular event was actually established over fifty years ago in honor of two soviet champions in long

distance running and serafin it's namin ski now the event itself has been held in various locations but it's been a staple fixture here just outside of moscow ever since this rather impressive meteoric stadium was built the competition features races over distances from one hundred meters to one thousand five hundred meters it also includes javelin throwing short porch and other olympic events in the high jump recently crowned russian champion irina gold of the of a couldn't better norway's tanya angus and nor could she top of her personal best of two point zero two meters but she was still full of praise about the event as a whole that was i think they've done a really good job organizing this event and the weather has been fantastic personally i didn't do so well today the bar wobbled and then fell but that aside i do really like this event olympic champion. participated in the one thousand five

hundred meter distance run but failed to make the top three while olympic medal hopeful. says a hectic recent schedule has proven to be energy sapping and it's really a tough i mean i've been running all week culminating in participating in this competition so it's definitely drained my and it also fast your overall speed average which i've been working on during training. but as the older. drawing nearer to hanging up their boots it's the stars of the future that are beginning to catch the eye. of a beat both to claim first place in the one thousand five hundred meter race improving a whole seventeen seconds on her previous personal best and barely off the track she was already thinking about russia's national championships to be held at the end of june. i think the level of preparation will be very high for the russian championships everyone is getting ready for it the eight hundred metres race is very difficult and it's very popular in russia but of course i'm hoping i can land

in the top three you know to secure a ticket to london it's an olympic year so you'd be forgiven for thinking athletes would want to focus solely on those games without extra competitions that could distract only to injury but when sport is your passion the consensus among athletes is that of any person who wants success the more you try the bigger the chance you'll succeed michael. moscow region. is your sport for this our world weather is coming up in just a tech. world with. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. sigrid

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