hi there this is r.t. from moscow our top stories this evening scaremongering over syria's chemical weapons potential gets 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 a militant onslaught that left more than one hundred people dead in iraq. plus no let up for the euro zone now italian mayors protest against austerity while the ratings agency set their sights on the e.u.'s key economies including germany. acting as a world policeman is what nato has long considered itself to be but there are some security issues it just can't nail down as r.t. he 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 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 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 god it's going to 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 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 of 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 is foreign 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 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 discussion a regional discussion that involves pakistan as a autonomous actor that 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 city to 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. 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 idea and 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. rather it 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 and sabbath article system russia opposes the system yes russia has been invited to participate if i were russia i would say look spend 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 or 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 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 to get and 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. british

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be headlines from marty scaremongering over syria's chemical weapons potential gives the world community fired up despite assurances from damascus that such arms won't be used in the country's internal crisis. concerns for syria grow on the back of a resurgent al qaida which is accused of the militant onslaught that left more than one hundred people dead in iraq. plus no let up for the eurozone now italian mayors protest against the start of the ratings agencies set their sights on the key economies including. its twenty forty five moscow time let's get across all the sports away with kate. hello welcome to the cheers a small round up because the top stories. n.b.a. band on the record lanka says he'll head back to america after season away from the

world's top boss of only. while he's awol russian volunteers still wait for british visas with just three days to go before the start of the london olympics. and the ice to limit a russian women's parachute team brave the elements to set a new world record sky diving. but first russia's biggest basketball star says he'll return to the n.b.a. next season so do you want your old announced his decision to go back to the u.s. despite signing a three year deal with tesco moscow last autumn where the small board enjoyed a stellar season meanwhile he has yet to agree a new contract in america though previous records linked him with the russian own nets nicknamed a k forty seven carolina spent a decade with the utah jazz during his initial foray into the n.b.a. before what european champion will spearhead the russian squad at the london olympics david dutchmen i can bet quest for glory against hosts great britain on the sunday.

just three days to go before the opening ceremony of the olympics russian volunteers are still struggling to obtain their visas to allow them to go to london the one hundred strong team are supposed to be in the british capital 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 russians sochi park in london the opening ceremony for the summer games takes place on friday and the volunteers still have to fly into london in time to see it. for me wants the world of tennis were among those carrying the olympic torch is it finally reach london after a relay around the country wimbledon finalist andy murray passed on the flame to venus williams at the all england club while footballer michael owen was also given the honor of barry torch and former palos verdes great said they are surrounding the london streets with a nine hundred eighty m.

to limbic champion nor do the image explain that. this is powerful in big movement of olympians and which unite the people of his different religion with different language it's no border through sports rule lympics the people always together business from bus ticket to and unique power of olympian. that in the meantime russia has gone for use either experience as five up and coming gymnasts will be vying to restore the country's former glory and the men's artistic gymnastics in london. has more. from the 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 is forty nine gold medals have been won at the olympic games showing in any other nation but now times have changed russia may still be one of the top countries when it comes to women thirty six 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 of the 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 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 rules of that on this that russia will have five athletes stake in this summer. heat many celebs and alexander but london selected as the first choice candidates last month well determining the team's last member has appeared to be a very difficult task for the coaches. to eventually get in the north for the final line up to break for the rest of the run in in particular for. the two time beijing girls medalist suffering

a deep in the form over recent years but had been training very hard in the run up to this course selection however to no avail the overall local discord 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. 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 male artistic gymnastics ward failed to add anything but girls to the country's coffers you have to go way back to the two thousand sydney olympics to celebrate the gold medal success. was a task then a clear one in order to revive the glorious traditions of previous generations to russia are going to have to reach the stars on the floor. r.c. . now on to

football and champions league winners chelsea are in philadelphia to play an american all-star team in a friendly on wednesday the english jazz are in a pre-season tour of the usa and will be looking for victory after salvaging a late one one draw against paris angela in new york on sunday the major league soccer players should again be led by landon donovan but have only a couple of days to prepare as a team and form also strike a terry onwe says they face an uphill challenge. that taught him to be it as you saw us here you know they're running children of europe so you know they're getting to be it at the moment especially in europe next year so i mean it's never easy to play consensus and to pagan's this type of team you know if you if you do one mistake or you know not even if you do a mistake sometimes there were scoring your so you have to be careful and be and be ready for that. one in the meantime chelsea target also says the prospect of joining the players is a dream amid reports he's thirty nine million dollar move could be finalized by

friday the twenty year old internacional midfielder underwent a medical before starring in brazil's two male friendly with a great britain on friday however dance cut being cast over his move after he said he was concentrating on winning olympic gold. 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 that i go to chelsea or i return to internet i will do my job anyway. this is of course is going on elsewhere hundreds of found stand up to great manchester united as they arrived in china for the first time in over a decade on wednesday the red devils will play a friendly with shanghai shun wah now former chelsea striker didier drogba and nicolas anelka while you would feel that shinji kagawa is among you like in squad as manager sir alex ferguson looks to have new recruits. the.

same to person as i want to go and. i think a fantastic potential. i was on time looking at other options terms of bringing other players in. so we're not. whining about ses doing nothing but trying to bring other players to the club. and finally a group of russia's most daring women have overcome months of grueling training to prove the sky is not the limit reports. to set a new world record in formation skydiving this was the task for eighty eight daring russian women in moscow region's cologne and failed to descend hand in hand heights of twenty thousand feet to set a new mark a so long i've been dreamin lassally said in this national record i think is

important for all of us i think that create a great team here parachute guru say that this attempt takes teamwork to another level both for professional jumpers and enthusiastic free falling hand in hand leaving no margin for error as the success depends on each and every member of the team if. this. will do so good. or is what we will have in our selves and it's there. but it was not all plain sailing right from the start the first two attempts at the record so the girls fall short however thousands of fans from all over the country from kaliningrad in the west of large of us stuck in the far east kept their faith alive all russian citizens taking part in the establishing of the world record and we do hold their today of the record that will be established and right now witness in this

four aircraft with more than eighty eight women parachutist on the board finally to the delight of the girls the weather cleared up right on cue the third attempt was not just luck it was more their hard work and all the training that paid off in the end as they ascended into the air in full planes.

despite the first true attempts no it's been successful these girls wasted mozart and getting back up in the air and now we're just moments away the key to finding out if there are certain world record with the fans scream and well done to the gills it was clear they had executed eighty eight way formation perfectly it was a hard record to be to only waiting for this we will also know of us it still is a my first on the record it's so cool so cool. this is setting a milestone not only for the girls but the whole of russia all that's left now is prepared to sit on the other world mark and with attitude like that it's probably not that far away. the collage. moscow region had us all this well this year's day life.

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