you're watching archie's great to have you what is the headline. terror returns to iraq begun trees wrong by that was to violence in the u.s. was drawn as a way of obama's hard sleeve more than a hundred delta al qaida announces its resurgence that the. syrian government statements that chemical weapons it won't be used in its internal conflicts create media scare stories where the hype on whether stockpiles a might be deployed against or for the rest. of the syrians are allowed free entry into egypt a landmark move easing a long time ago paid on gaza and seen as cairo under its new it is the president of willing to hamas. and right now all he talks to foreign policy analyst and also

about the security issues that the u.s. and its nato allies are failing to result. the european 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 i'm 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 other 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 that 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 you 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. more in pakistan to overall a huge presence in whatever presence al qaeda has it's largely not not 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 the hybrid. the times of greater nato bombing and attacks or when nato retreats a little bit 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 a kind of 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 talked a lot about the involvement of pakistan agreement between the u.s. and the nato alliance with 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 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 large you're going to discussions a regional discussion that involves pakistan as a autonomous actor that goes somewhat toward their goal of being taken seriously as a sovereign state as a sovereign state with interests in the region many class send let. benefit this this system has to the west and maybe you are 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 a consistent. they fails in terms of its tasks as cost overruns there have been several recent reports from the g.a.o. of 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 only a 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 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 and defend the scientists you were referring to even said that they should

scrap 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 they only would strike within europe itself 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 the capability to to reach europe in any 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 when such a system would be both feasible maybe and usable maybe and useful maybe is a big commitment type with a call system russia opposes the system yes russia has been invited to participate if i were russia i would say look i've spent my money on this but it it'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 actors and terrorism we're talking about nonpolitical aeration these are serious issues that we have to be sitting down and talking 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 being 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 they 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. 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. as it was shot four times in total in the air war as it were and. sort of the bullets are still in my body. and

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hello there welcome to this sort of detail on our thanks for joining us this hour still top stories. take to remove c sound schools twice a day of superstar does two time for much champions rubin two one in the russian premier league. american dream act with previous campaigns the track and field sports speaks of their medal hopes head of the london games. and fly team to all the tully klitschko reveals he's seen r.t. as the head wakes up the pace for his next school in september. first where rubin had been stunned in the premier league season opener is that two time former champions lost two one in cross. went into the match on the back of a confident victory over isn't it in the russian super power earlier this month but

they found themselves trading just before the break if you remove the sunglasses from the edge of the box and the striker negatives race as he converted a penalty fifteen minutes into the second half debra's not have pulled one goal back for again just minutes later so from the sport that they couldn't find the equaliser. for the two one victory although 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 about players still mistakes just unacceptable. in the meantime hundreds of fans turned up to greet meant to united on their first visit to china and main interest was in meeting up with former chelsea striker didier drogba nicholas carr on out with shanghai shane hart there was great interest in the progress of asia's best players like change you could gather at the club and the united manager sir alex ferguson

is searching for more. same to. go and. think of potential. other options terms of bringing other players in. so we're not. doing nothing but trying to bring other players to the club there's been a lot of excitement a lot of press coverage of. nicolas anelka coming into showing i. was a great game. for both clubs. obviously shanghai got to see where i could use 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. other football news brazilian midfielder looks set to join english premier league side chelsea the deal

is believed to be worth around thirty nine million dollars. at a medical with the contract is yet to be signed but for now a twenty year old international player is the part of the brazilian olympic sport he's totally focused on the upcoming football tournament in london. now is this. i truly have confidence in my work i believe that if i go to chile see it would be a dream it's a great european club but my focus now is only there and i need to perform well there and later if it happens literally go to chelsea or i return to internet so i will do my job anyway. for. olympics now and this plan self pressure on the russian women's volleyball team a surrogate. faced with the challenge of bringing home death us gold since one nine hundred eighty eight reports. the women of the soviet union were well used to

dominating competition at the net winning for gold 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 two two thousand and two thousand and four the team finished outside the top four in the ensuing two thousand and eight games in beijing this year russia fielding one of the veteran teams in 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 and 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 moments ago in the middle of the vote on weighty time world champions so we've played in pekin in peak much as before i participated in finals twice before we had a subpar outing in beijing so i think this is the perfect chance for us to win until they cme 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 as they see the country's first gold in twenty four years uganda gorski r.t. . staying with. the latics competition doesn't start until the third of august american track and field score is already in britain preparing for the games american athletes have traditionally dominated olympic track and field action so

there is huge expectation on these men and women as most of the reigning olympic and world champions will compete this spring to trail him 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 is pretty confident of success. around the first time in the sixty fourth. in the starling is real about first if you can. open the first season you pretty much can 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 a team in because. you know that martina believe in me and being first in. the meantime jamaican super sprinter you say bolt has made his way to madame tussaud's 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 than because

it's such as jessica ennis and tom daley join a host of sporting greats awesome present from how it relates to reynolds and david beckham. the single is one of the most celebrated actually it's off its off its current time and he has got five world championships three limping medals under is about so would you like to join him taffy now in the traction but more importantly our guests have to question to see him so he came up again and again in our research that we currently do and he is now actually traction i think he will be perfect addition to what we have here already. and finally boxing where heavyweight champ and mitali klitschko is due to defend his w.b.c. belt against germany charge here in moscow in september but in the meantime took the chance to ask the brother who he considers to be his idols of the rain.

begin his chance to prove my boxing skills against strong opponent strong as a boxer in my career there are four points against a stronger. against a strong. box always. good boxing skills. i missed so many so many punches in the fight saying for them for linux for great experience what i have. experienced give me be quick reaction for my future fight. personal opinion he was one of the greatest fighter. ever one of the strongest fighter the same as mohammed ali the same level as mike tyson lennox lewis. i am huge fan of. were very linear and for me he was one of the best

good movement goods direction. great technique and. great fighter ever. like a high mentally like. mike tyson but. for me personally i'm sure a loner unbeatable the greatest if you put all together all skills old walking skills. you have to feel that and decide right now is the moment to leave the sport. i hope i hope i find some. time point where right i point. when i do it. makes the world know i'm forty i move the youngest sportsman but anyway. my

blood of war and. we were right a good performance inside flight and many young boys doesn't help or. to beat me many of them promise but i can do. ok you have today no more sports news from around the globe it's time have not see whether it's next stay with us. well. it's technology innovation all the rest of melamine from around russia we've got the future covered.

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