come. here with r t live from moscow the headlines scaremongering over syria's chemical weapons potential the world community fired up despite assurances from damascus that such arms won't be used in the country's internal crisis. and terror concerns for syria grow on the back of a resurgent al qaeda which is accused of the militant onslaught that left more than a hundred people dead and you want. no let up for the euro zone italian mayors protest against austerity while the ratings agencies set their sights on the economies including germany. acting as a world policeman is what nato has long considered itself but there are some security issues it just can't now down as our teeth here is next.

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 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 that 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 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 etcetera 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 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 overall a huge presence and whatever presence al qaeda has it's largely not not region any longer and it's shifted to yemen to other parts of the world. taliban yes of course the taliban has basically responded by either going into hybrid. they should at times have a greater nato bombing and attacks or when nato retreats a little bit and 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 she's on anything up in. pakistan you talk a lot about the involvement of pakistan in 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 were kind of violating its sovereignty on 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 discussion 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 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 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 years it's 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 idea and the scientists you are 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 in

right now iran doesn't have a 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 and sam pathetically system russia opposes this yes russia has 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 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 has up 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 or a thing about non-state actors and terrorism we're talking about nonproliferation 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 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 to get and 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

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thank you for joining me the latest quarter here the top story it. takes to you the most is young school is twice as present dastan two time former champions or been to one in the russian premier league. while braving the blues all american stars prepare for a friendly against chelsea as the champions league winners continue to susan. under the visa while russian volunteers are still waiting till ten british these are just three days to go before the start of the london olympics. but first let's kick off with football where rubin have been stunned in their premier league season i was the two time former russian champions lost to won in krasnodar the visitors went into the match on the back of a confident to know victory i was in need and the russians see a cop earlier this month but they found themselves trading just before the break because you wouldn't want to see and lost at home to the box and the strikeout maybe to brace as he converted a penalty. well five minutes later not kill called a goal back or were beat also from the spot. but this side

couldn't find an equalizer asked his class or dot com going for two hundred three. we did make some mistakes which resulted in us conceding those two girls and it took quite an effort to get back into the match but i'm still happy about the level of commitment about players still mistakes like these are just unacceptable well meanwhile hundreds of fans some of that minimized the great manchester united on their arrival in china the first visit to the country and over a decade on wednesday the red devils will play a friendly with shanghai showing one line up nicely it's former chelsea striker didier drogba from the killer and elka told me while new midfielder shinji kagawa is among your knighted squad manager strikes purgason also confirmed his interest in a nineteen year old brazil will get lukas laura as well as adding other recruits to his squad. playing two pairs in a summer go and. think of fantastic potential.

of his own tame work and other problems terms of bringing other players in. so we're not. whining about ses doing nothing or trying to bring other players to the club. meanwhile champ is a going to tell syrian philadelphia to play an all americans so all star american all starting with should play in a friendly on wednesday and may just soccer league players are expected to once again be led by landon donovan but the highest have a just a couple of days to prepare as a unit for the big game and former arsenal striker terry andre knows they're facing an uphill challenge. taught him to beat has just you know they're running out of europe so you know the exhibit at the moment especially in europe next year so i mean it's never easy to play against chelsea and you play to play in this type of team you know if you if you do one mistake or you are not even if you do

a mistake sometimes there were score on you so you have to be careful and be and be ready for that and in the meantime chelsea telling it also says the prospect of joining the blues is a dream amid reports his thirty nine million dollars could be finalised as early as friday the twenty year old internacional playmaker underwent a medical before starring in brazil's two no friendly win over great britain in middlesborough however does have been cast over the brazil midfielder's move to the police after he said he was concentrating on winning olympic gold in london. now is this. i truly have confidence in my work i believe that if i go to chelsea it would be a dream it's a great european club but my focus now is only the olympics and i need to perform well there and later if it happens later i go to chelsea i return to internet son and i will do my job anyway. now there are just three days to go before the opening ceremony of the london

olympics but russian volunteers are still struggling to tame visas to go to the british capital the one hundred strong team also posed to be in london to promote russia's first winter games in sochi in two years time but the russian ministry of foreign affairs says british officials have been too slow in granting the visas the delay could jeopardize the work of the russian sochi park in london the opening ceremony for the summer games is due on friday and the volunteers still have to fly into london in time to see it. but meanwhile the organizers have once again underlined that the city is ready to host its third summer games as the olympic football tournament will kick off on wednesday while the first medals will be awarded on saturday with swimmers cyclist and white lifters among the first vying for glory in london. you know. she is really. going. to be a. great. one in the meantime stars in the world of tennis were among those

carrying the olympic torch as it finally reached london after a relay around the country will turn finalist andy murray passed on the flame to venus williams at the all england club while former england and manchester united football michael owen was also given the honor of bearing the torch and former pole vault great study group also ran through the london streets in one nine hundred eighty eight olympic champion ording field and pick spirit which is powerful in big movement of olympians and which he united the people of his differing the religion with different language it's no border to sports rule lympics the people always together business fantastic and unique power of olympians. and in the meantime russia has gone for us either experience as five up and coming to in the us will be vying to restore the country's former glory in the men's artistic gymnastics in london. has more. from the soviet union russian artistic gymnasts have

always had a lot to live up to that of the distinguished tradition of soviet union athletes between russia and the us of forty nine gold medals have been won at the olympic games sharing any other nation but now times have changed russia may still be one of the top countries when it comes to women surtees ticks gymnastics but their male counterparts have had it much harder especially with the rise of team china the host of the last olympics keep in seven or eight goals at home and so not surprisingly caution is the buzzword ahead of the london games so hidden in the women's competition there are really only five countries who can win the men's gymnastics and expect any of the top sixteen countries to fight for the podium certainly there are some teams which have better chances but in general the competition there is much tougher with. russia will have five athletes taken part this summer and that he believes he then he said absent and alexander by london

selected as the first choice candidates last month well determining the team's last member has appeared to be a very difficult task coaches are going to home in cave in chile gets in the north for the final lineup had to break for the rest of the run in in particular for. the two time beijing bronze medalist suffering a deep informal recent years but had been training very hard in the run up to this course selection however to no avail the overall look of this quarter a youthful one not one of the quintet is a former olympian. yes we have a relatively young team but i don't think it's a bad one we know each other very well as we've been training together in the used team for many years and we even took part in the youth european championships with the same lineup four years ago russia's mailer to stick gymnastics towards failed to add anything but. brings to the country's coffers you have to go way back to two

thousand sydney olympics to celebrate the gold medal success. was to ask them to clear one in order to revive the glorious traditions of previous generations russia going to have to reach the stars on the floor. john gregory and r.c. and in the meantime the athletics competitions don't start until august the third but the american track and field squad is already in britain and in preparation american athletes have traditionally dominated at the olympics so there's huge expectation on these men and women with most of their reigning world and olympic champions competing in the british capital sprinter trial came as is due to run the opening leg in the men's four by one hundred meters relay the twenty seven year old is yet to about an olympic medal but he's pretty confident of success. all right the first time in the sixty fourth. and in the styling is real about first sixteen if you can bust it open the first season you pretty much know put your team in a good position and be in the driver your team got to be confident in your in your

start and no one that i know he can go out his best and put the team in the best position and. you know that my team believe in me and and been first leg and my dear god and all those years of training jamaican sprint star you saying bolt has made his way into not i'm just sort of just in time for the olympics the fastest man on earth has been recreated in wax and last stand next to other olympic athletes such as britain's jessica ennis and tom daley they join a host of sporting greats past and present from jesse owens and how mentally to rinaldo and back and. he singled is one of the most celebrated actually it's off it's off its current time and he has got five world championships three olympic medals under a spell to be delighted to join the game to have him now in the attraction but more importantly i would guess half requested to see him so it came up again and again in our research that we currently do and he is now actually traction i think he will be a perfect addition to what we have here already. here again just on the two.

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