welcome back this is our quick check of the headlines terror returns to iraq the country's wrong vibe was to violence as the u.s. withdrawal as a way of obama types leave more than a hundred dead after al qaida announces its resurgence the. syrian government statements that chemical weapons are one be used in its internal conflict greater media scare stories would be high on whether stockpiles might be deployed against a foreign aggressor. mysterians are allowed free entry into egypt a landmark move easy a long time blockade on gaza and seen as cairo under its new islamist president of warming to hamas. now as he talks to foreign policy analyst and author john about

the security issues that the u.s. and its nato allies are failing to resolve. they are being leaders are trying to pull out of afghanistan and we see what the french president is trying to do how do you think that will affect the need to operations in afghanistan and maybe the alliance of nato in general well from the point of view of a military planner of course they're not going to be very happy about that they rely on these commitments made by nato partners on the other hand from my point of view it might accelerate the push for a diplomatic slash political solution to the situation in afghanistan we have been trying for the last decade to solve the problem of afghanistan militarily and it hasn't been solved and that's not to say that it's going to be easy to solve the problem diplomatically or politically or economically but we haven't really

invested the time the energy the money into that side of the equation to try to find some stability some political stability in afghanistan that's going to be the real charge over the next couple of years my hope is that the withdrawal of french troops dutch troops canadian and australian troops that will actually lift the diplomatic solutions higher on the agenda of the united states and its partners but many might argue that it's not the natives responsibility to boost the economy of afghanistan specially at this time it isn't nato has responsibility of course nato is responsible for ensuring an overall security for the country within which there can be economic growth within which there can be political stability nato of course has been involved in things that go beyond strictly speaking its military capacities in part because nato realizes that if you look around it after the end

of the cold war there aren't a lot of military missions to be engaged in so nato has perforce looked at. there are possible operations whether it's delivery of a or it's dealing with post. crisis situations natural disasters etc environmental situations so nato has been looking at that but right now at least for afghanistan the focus has been on the military but what i'd like to see with the reduction of nato forces in afghanistan i'd like to see the other actors in the situation to step up to the plate and not just the united states and nato but it really has to be a regional solution we have to involve pakistan russia should be on at the table there should be discussions with iran and with india as well and this is a regional problem all of these countries have had interest and continue to have interest in afghanistan they should also be playing a role in trying to find some kind of solution but ten years after the presence of

nato in afghanistan i mean it didn't seem to improve many might even i get that the taliban and caught up problems are even greater now than they were ten years ago how do you think they can balance this and they kind of and the economic stability at the same time well i would i would say that the situation for al qaeda has definitely not improved. numbers very few at this point in afghanistan. and more in pakistan to mount overall a huge presence in whatever presence al qaeda has it's largely not in that region any longer it's shifted to yemen to other parts of the world. taliban yes of course the taliban has basically responded by either going into hibernation at times of greater nato bombing and attacks or when nato retreats a little bit it goes on the offensive but the taliban has both its military and its

political side we have had and we've been trying from washington to engage the taliban to set up kind. negotiating office for the taliban those are continuing the pace it's not going to be easy and it hasn't been successful i mean so far in anything up in. pakistan you talk a lot about the involvement of pakistan agreement between the u.s. and the nato alliance with the pakistan over their supply route to afghanistan. how do you see that in fact the operations in afghanistan global a military point of view of course the supply lines are very important it's cheaper to go through pakistan in many cases it's safer and so having pakistan on our side is critically important but at the same time we have to look at why pakistan and you know closed down those operations pakistani government felt that our kind of violating its sovereignty and any number of occasions not as violating

sovereignty but actually killing pakistani soldiers mistakenly but whatever they were unhappy with that and they continue not to be happy with that so if we're going to have pakistan as an ally we have to seriously address their concerns about sovereignty issues i think we have a larger scotian a regional discussion that involves pakistan as a autonomous actor goes somewhat toward their goal of being taken seriously as a sovereign state it is a sovereign state with interests in the region many class send let. benefit this this system has to the west and maybe or even well. it's tough to talk about capabilities when it comes to missile defense because as a system it hasn't been the most successful system that we've put forward from a military point of view it consistently fails in terms of its tasks has cost overruns there have been several recent reports from the g.a.o. various academic institutions calling into question the entire system nevertheless

europe has committed several countries of course turkey has. committed poland italy to at least have some role to play in this defense system if only their radar capability. nato is scrambling to kind of find the money for this because it's going to be an extraordinarily expensive system and the europeans have only pointed up a small portion of that and you know at a time when the united states is desperately looking for ways to cut military oh as much as five hundred billion minimum i think state yours is going to be tough to to find support both here in the united states and in europe for a much more robust missile defense system so i think nato is trying to put a best possible face on what is still a contentious issue and that's not even taking into account russia's opposition to this i defend the scientists you were referring to even said that they should ask

wrap key parts of the whole system but. there is complains that this system doesn't even protect the u.s. it rather protects europe you know well there are a lot of systems that we have in place that have dubious you know feasibility a dubious value i mean just look at the tactical nuclear weapons we maintain still in europe if you look at the range at which those nuclear weapons would strike and they only would strike within europe itself i mean barely might cleaning brought in might touch kaliningrad and that's it why do we keep them there they have no military utility whatsoever we keep them there for outdated cold war reasons why do we maintain a missile defense system well in part because of the cold war legacy we started this program in the cold war we still have this idea that somehow or protect the united states and western europe from a much larger missile threat but the specific missile threat from this is iran and

right now iran doesn't have a capability to to reach europe in. reasonable or sensible way so the missile defense system is really is of dubious value right now and i think that's why it's difficult to get buy in for it from our european allies they have a lot of things they have to spend money on and to think decades down the line with such a system would be both feasible maybe and usable maybe and useful maybe is a big commitment and sad pathetic all systems russia opposes the system yes russia's been invited to participate if i were russia i would say look i spent my money on this but it that's another question so how do you think this will affect the relations between russia and meet on the future and maybe the u.s. even well i think missile defense is an unnecessary kind of. provocation shall we say for russia as nato expansion has been in the past we've of

course reached out nato has reached out to russia to sit down to talk to have agreements but for the most part this has been seen by russia as just kind of superficial what i think russia wants is to be taken seriously in any kind of security discussions you know across your range or of course russia set up its own security discussions with central asian countries with china and so forth. i think that it would be useful for nato and the united states to say look we are now in negotiations with iran about its nuclear program let's continue know there's those negotiations expand those negotiations to address missile questions as well and deal with the missile issue that way in that spend so much money on missile defense which is of dubious feasibility to begin with and start to address the range of issues that the united states and nato have with russia about a variety of different security threats which you know are serious and affect the

entire world whether we're talking about climate change we're talking about non-state actor. there's terrorism and we're talking about nonproliferation these are serious issues that we have to be sitting down and talk about nato is an institution that has to find some kind of legitimacy twenty years after the end of the cold war it developed a kind of shall we say interim reason for b. to go after rogue states so to speak to deal with the crisis in former yugoslavia more recently to deal with libya potentially to deal with syria but that really goes beyond what nato was designed to do which was collective security for europe specifically i personally think that the the recent summit was an attempt again i'd try to two years ago in lisbon to find some kind of rationale to keep nato going to keep

a reason for spending so much money on this alliance and i don't think they found one that seems very hard to find one thank you very much a sage on thought fam. i am. were shot four times in total and i want to use that word. sorry of the boys who are still in my body. and people should be allowed to defend themselves wherever they are gone from the

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the top stories in our seed terror returns to the countries wrong by the was the violence of the u.s. as a way of bullets hard to leave more than one hundred dead after al qaida announces its resurgent. syrian government statement that chemical weapons one be used in its internal conflict to create a media scare stories where the hype on whether stockpiles might be deployed against them or an aggressor. and if students are allowed free entry into egypt easing a long time blockade of gaza and seen as kyra under its new islamist president will make. the headlines now dimitri's head that with the latest sports.

hello there welcome to the sports of the turn out to you thanks for joining us this hour top stories. today to remove suzanne's course twice as seekers and two time former champions are being pursued one in the russian term of the. american dream packed with previous campaigns to track and field sports pics of their mobile homes head of the london games. and fight scene. reveals he goes to. propose for his next bout in moscow in september. first to a ravine had been stunned in the premier league season opener is that time former russian champions lost two one in person and the visitors went into the match on the back of a confident to know victory over the russian super cup earlier this month but they found themselves training just before the break as your mrs sandblasted home from

the. age of the box and they strike made it embrace i second that it apparently fifteen minutes into the second half not hopeful one killed back to the ravine just minutes later also from the sport but they couldn't find it. and hung on for the see one victory. we did make some mistakes which resulted in us conceded those two girls and it took quite enough for to get back into the match but i'm still happy about the level of commitment of our players still mistakes just unacceptable. chelsea. one all draw in new york in a friendly against big spending. just have a football match played at the new yankee stadium the french club has been grabbing headlines the pre-season spending policy defended by coach. to reach. europe you have to spend money you have to do investment and.

this is a man whose investment then you have to go all. the. provisions of last year who want to be quickly. go to the top of the european football. hundreds of fans turned up to britain i see you noted on that first visit to china i referred to events the main interest was in meeting up with former chelsea striker didier drogba and. now with shankar. it was great interest in the progress of asia's the best players like changing. the united coach . alex ferguson for more. same to person as i go and. think of potential.

other options terms of being another person so we're not. doing nothing but trying to bring other players to the club has been a lot of excitement a lot of press coverage of. nicolas anelka coming to shanghai. it's a great game. for both clubs. obviously shanghai got to see where. this is a stage of our pre-season and the main focus for us is to go on another stage of fitness and get through the game on skates no injuries. and there is plenty of pressure on the russian women's volleyball team. faced with the challenge of bringing. a date with reports. the women of the soviet union were well used to dominating competition at the net

winning four golds from one nine hundred sixty eight to nine hundred eighty eight but they've been deprived of the best spot on the podium since then unable to rise above second place in one thousand nine hundred to two thousand and two thousand and four. side the top four in the ensuing two thousand and eight games in beijing this year russia fielding one of the veteran teams at the games with an average age of twenty eight six players on the team also participated in either greece or in china the squad also monk is the most physically imposing seven players measuring taller than one hundred ninety centimeters cuba are sure to be amongst russia's main rivals the country taking the baton from the soviet union by winning it all in barcelona atlanta and sydney two time gold medalist china. and the star studded two thousand eight winners brazil could also prove troublesome for the russians but the likes of thirty one year old you could syrian a gun of all will be banking on their big game experience when they arrive in

london only to go in the middle of what are we tea time well champions so we've played in pygmalion peak much before i participated in the finals twice before we had a subpar outing in beijing so i think this is the perfect chance for us to win a tool this year a few other russian players have been there and done that which could serve as a game breaker in their opening preliminary round match against great britain the hosts along with turkey will be making their olympic debut in their july twenty ninth clash so a squad of seasoned veterans primed to bring russia back to its former glory is receiving the country's first gold in twenty four years evander gorski r t. staying with famed latics competition doesn't start until the third of august in american track and field squad is already in britain preparing for the games american athletes have traditionally dominated olympic track and field action so there's huge expectation these men and women of the reigning olympic and world

will complete their sprinter trail can and is due to run the opening leg in the men's four by one hundred meters relay race the twenty seven year old is still without an olympic medal but a sprint to confident of success. around a first time in the sixty fourth. in the styling is really about for sixteen if you can. proceed and you pretty much know put your team in a good position and be in the drabble your team got to be confident in your in your store and nor do i know you can. put the team in the best position and. you know that martina believe in me and be in first in my deal. in the meantime jamaican super spring so you see bolt has made his way to met him to self in the british capital just in time for the olympics the fastest man in the world has been recreated in works and will stand next to other limping athletes such as jessica

ennis and tom daley join host of sporting greats past and present from just i wince and we'll have a delay and david back up he's involved is one of the most celebrated actually of it all for its current time and he has got five world championships three olympic medals and respects to be delighted to our name to have him now in the traction but more importantly our guests have to question to see him so it came up again and again in our research that we currently do and he is now actually new traction i think he will be a perfect addition to what we have here already. finally boxing champ. is due to defend his w.b.c. belt against john malone chart here in more screen september but in the meantime art took the chance to ask the klitschko brothers he considers to be his idols of the ring. oh i. could give

a chance to prove my boxing skills against a strong opponent strong as a boxer in my career there are forts they gain so strong. against a strong. box always. good boxer skills never. i mean it's so many so many punches in the fight saying for the next four great experience what i have. experienced gives me the quick reaction for my surprise. personal opinion he was so one of the greatest fighter. ever one of the strongest fire the same as mohammed ali the same level as mike tyson and lennox lewis. i am huge fan of. sure are a lender and for me he was one of the best good moments.

correction. great technique and. great fighter ever. i like a high mentally i like linux that is mike tyson but. probably personally i'm sure a loner unbeatable to greatest if you put all together all skills old boxing skills . you have to feel that and decide right now is the moment to leave the sport. i hope i hope i find. time point went right by point. when they do that. make sure though i am forty i am mostly young sportsman but anyway. my body war and. two are not

a good performance and side fight and many young boys doesn't help or. to beat me many of them promise but i can do it. ok up to date now more sports news from around the globe in ties time here not say weather is next stay with us. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. giant corporations are ruled today.

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