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and the us smart going to verse three of the first joint space flight in the forward cold war relations that followed all the states thirty five years ago two spacecraft one salvi at one of the blasted off and later dr goldberg in the apollo sewing machine. our programs continue tonight for the very beginning the recent spy scandal between russia and the us read like the pages of an espionage novel now famous author of frederick forsyth offers his interpretation of what it was all about in our interview coming up. i'm here with frederick forsyth internationally renowned crime fiction writer seth and we're talking about the recent spy swap between the u.s. and russia where ten spies were deported from the u.s. in exchange for four in russian presence most of all so i thank you so much for talking to r.t. today that this seems to have been

a very lengthy process in which no actual secrets were passed on do you think that these particular spies would ever have produced information that would have been of any value well it's difficult to say what they would eventually. manage to get over certainly what they were doing when they were discovered during very quiet suburban lives it does for a lot of people they have not penetrated any major institution like cia. or f.b.i. or the pentagon or some nuclear facility that and any of that they might have been used as me go betweens but one doesn't think that as the primary information source they were nowhere near as sensitive material and these kind of deep sleep i mean what kind of person would do that it seems to be quite a special type of scale it is to do to leave your homeland to go to somebody else's and really. sink because of their society to such a degree that you can puff for one of them is exceptional skill it takes years of

practice the idea that they just arrived with no training is nonsense they would have been years in a like an all-american village sum or a person the urals becoming americans over an extended period and then to arrive in a no you may never see your homeland again and that it's a dream for most people terrific sacrifice to make and how serious a threat still think these people will some sleepers in history have indeed been immensely valuable. to the person they're working for. but it's very very unusual most traitors for example spies who spied against russia or the u.s.s.r. in during the cold war were themselves russians or ukrainians or you know and traitors in the west were british or americans. very rare to find someone who can pass. for me gordon lowndes dale who was the must of mind of what

we call the portland bill spy ring many years ago was indeed colonel. of the k.g.b. but he was gordon lums ala canadian businessman. and he was asleep but it's very unusual it's the most unusual. form in which espionage takes place and this is a song that's actually still ongoing just this week we had the arrest of another yet another spy in the united states only twenty three years old which seems extraordinary young what kind of training do you think he would have had at such a young age well i don't know what i don't know how he was able if he was indeed able to cross the thing about america it's an easier. to penetrate than in british society because i mean america is an ethnic melting pot and you can say hey you know i'm a bum a polish immigrant i love america polish american and i have a name like cobol skeet because my. american with a name like of all speak it's harder to say i am. hoping to go my answer is go back

three hundred years in britain when you're not. these things can be checked so you have to have what's called a legend that's going to be very very perfect takes years of working all and usually has it with gordon lonsdale that was once a gordon canadian boy who died and his entire life story was taken over by the k.g.b. . who created a new one around their own their own man that i was usually done to take over someone who died but who who is ancestry can be proved. that sides don't do you think that this latest arrests which came off the only others and often we thought that this was in fact david do you think that means that this story may continue i should know i think they probably. cns suspect the newcomer the last one was probably something that some of the f.b.i. discovered going through the papers of the one of the ten. but the ten

who i think not all of them were known even to we jump up i suspect the betrayal if that's the word the giving away of them started with a tip off the whole thing to me reeks to pull off and let's not forget the f.b.i. been working for years on them there's wasn't a lot of hay on monday we saw the old tip we arrest them on saturday they were following them for years and checking them out and checking their backgrounds out and finding obviously eventually flaws that said this is not the person he or she purports to be somewhere i'd imagine in there they got the name of the eleventh i did mention. do you think that the the arrest of these people at that time was politically makes of a sense i don't know i would it's all because i'm. it came just. prime as a president medvedev was. sort of sharing

a hamburger with the american president so maybe the american president barack obama wasn't very pleased that it should be at that moment. it could be a decision that the director of the f.b.i. said we could delay perhaps he thought they might fly the coop if they didn't do something quickly but anyway they were there was one shot of the two heads of government cheerily sharing a hamburger about three days later. this is a humiliating story for four from moscow the ten eleven of their agents picked up one got away to cyprus. but that can't cannot have been available and very embarrassing for moscow and let's talk about that one that got away what do you think could have happened to him if he skipped bail was gone that oh one has to remember cyprus he got to sort of cyprus where he was arrested and some magistrate with more as presume a bigger bank account than he's got brains gave him bail despite the protests of

the american consul inside the courtroom. as soon as you go bail he vanished well for obvious reasons i mean there are a lot of wealthy russians who live in cyprus and some have you private airplanes and some have private yachts and i think probably only he was on one go up very fast to see him go. this is a thing that was sold very quickly much more quickly than it would have been for example during the cold war why why do you think that was what was behind the solving of it i think the reason. for the original arrests the trial or the arrangements with streaming quick and the decision to swap them was very quick . from america's point of view i think derives the fact that they were they realize they actually weren't sort of top top top level people. they were an embarrassment to moscow. they were almost a joke to the american media who couldn't take them seriously i mean guy you can

say what have you done in ten years would have penetrated the golf club it's not actually couldn't. i think that was behind the let's get that out of here. and it's also the muscovite let's get them back quickly and cover this rather embarrassing episode up as best we can and that's what they're doing. benefited the most from this hastily arranged swap oh the usa usa it was a propaganda coup. it it reminded i mean the watching world that spying isn't over still goes all and both sides are at it and they know they are we all know they are but perhaps we need reminding because it's been twenty years since the end of the cold war many of us for oh maybe they were spying any more on that where they do and so do we. the media during this whole florrie became fixated with the chapman do you think she's the image of the new international spy. i was

i think most readers are already intrigued and amused by the other james officer which is very pretty woman. and there is this almost media fixation of the matahari sexy spy. when i was doing spy novels i mean everybody thinks a spy you must be jerky we can use a call go but the very few professional intelligence office. that i ever met with middle age women in tweets i mean there's not actually. anything like an entrapment so i think i'm chapman with that short of a looking over right shoulder. to really really tired all the media but let's face it i think anna chapman ever either. seduced you know as a senior officer or slept with a politician or security any blinding piece of information

a boss don't the most go so. as she seems to want to come back to live in britain where she lived for five years and that she's a british national because she married a british. i hope that they allow her to come back was up there she got inspired him or why shouldn't she come back i i take a light hearted if you of the whole episode because i just i don't think any any real damage was done to the us i want to bring. mr chapman they go what would you think about this is a plot for a novel. oh it would make a wonderful comedy and all yes almost a comedy of errors. and i think i could have readers laughing at the whole idea of crazy espionage all spies what they used to be. what they used to be. we what's that state. used to be much more serious because let's

face it if there had been a nuclear war between the us a water pipe on the one side and nato on the other basically between the usa and the u.s.s.r. we would all have been facing the wipe out of civilization it was that bad that syria's recalled and a de mutually assured destruction. i don't think anyone is seriously thinking before one instance the model of moscow is going to even try a first nuclear strike even though they have nuclear weapons and the same applies to the usa i think what's a state is not the wipe out of civilization it used to be that's why it was when it was very very fraught in the cold war it's not for us people have been quite shocked by this particular story because you know a man on the street didn't realize that that was still spies up racing in you know between between the u.s. and america do you think we still need spot. what the media.

certainly other than what you would have us explain to any major government the. spies because every major government would say look. you know their rival countries to us they do have secrets it would be immensely helpful to us to learn about them . intentions plans technical breakthroughs new discoveries particularly in the weapons field. that are just a part of the rivalry one tiny puppy does a part. mr forsyth thanks very much for talking to day. nineteen ninety the train carries away the russian empire gold reserve. to save it from the soviets. five hundred tons of gold.

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the foreign relations in. two spacecraft one one american blasted off. always more no loss story. the world sport. hello and welcome thanks for joining our sports round up on a test subject and here is what's coming up in the program diego maradona and i could stay in charge of the argentine national team for the next four years. because bollock rejoins the club he played for early on in his career byron liver. and open day rory mcilroy leaves at gold's oldest major after shooting the bast first round scoring the championships one hundred and thirty nine year history.

golf with football news diego maradona may not be done with argentina's national squad just yet the legend will be offered a new deal that would keep him in charge through to the summer of twenty fourteen when brazil stages the next world cup because occasion proces for this last one was shaky and the quarter final exit was largely viewed as underachievement bob the origin time football association apparently still believes india got armando association president julia granddaughter will meet the forty nine year old next week even though mara daughter had hinted he would quit after the four male defeat to germany. meanwhile david back home has already made it clear he's not interested in coaching england even if. became available backs also talked about living in l.a. during a global web chat if you were wearing the managerial suit well i felt you know you look the part where you look like you could have been leading the team and i

thought this is a rehearsal for you this time you know it's a role i could see you and you know of got no. interest in being a manager. you know it's something i've never been interested in this no passion of mine to the. manager for to so many things to enjoy about living in l.a. you know obviously the lakers is a bonus. you know like i said i am a big boss wolf and to be able to go to the lakers. you know. more world news now may have bollixed chelsea days are over thirty three year old germany captain has signed a two year contract with a buyer leverkusen leverkusen finished fourth in the bundesliga last season on the coach poncas and ballack hopes he can contribute positively to a school with a bright future but he'll have to recover his fitness and full fast not easy for a thirty three year old boy aged his ankle in may and missed the world cup but hopes to be back for the start of the new season. i am still doing

build up the training strength training in the next few days i will try to do a bit of running for the first time if everything goes smoothly. and jump into team training in the next two or three weeks this is my in order to be ready for the first day of the new season to boxing now i will defend his w b o and i.b.o. heavyweight graus against alexander by that can all september eleventh the bout will take place said the combat it's bob kerrey in frankfurt klitschko who has a record of fifty four wins and three losses with forty eight knockouts last fault on march twentieth notching a knock out of eighty chambres he's won twelve straight fights since a loss to lehmann brewster in two thousand and four but it can meanwhile is old russian native nineteen ballasts with fourteen knockouts he also lost fourth in march and scored a fifth round technical knockout over javier morrow chambres was also one of his

victims in a unanimous decision in january two thousand and eight. golf now and rory mcilroy is off to the best of starts at the british open the northern irishman posting the lowest opening round score of sixty three on thursday to take a three shot early lead taking advantage of mixed weather conditions at santander is the. why is you want your old collected the bridge and an eagle on the front nine before picking up six birdies in a devastating back nine for the amazing nine on the par sixty three and that's the best record in a hundred and seventy nine years now three time champion tiger woods started slowly but then stormed back late. retains good chances of regaining the title in scotland and american veteran john daly is also there the nine hundred ninety five open champion turned back the clock as he hit an impressive seven birdies in a round of six under sixty six daily known as wild thing saying he is more focused

on the game than ever you guys perceive me as well you know. i'm not as wild as some people i've seen you know in my time but it's kind of a cool name i don't mind it but you know i think there's going to concentrate more on the go off. you know dedicate it to trying to come back and there are certain things that i just don't want to do anymore you know order for me to get there there's certain things i can't do there's certain foods i don't there's certain things i've given up an awful lot on. and i get up to smoking and i get up to diet cokes but i'm doing pretty good. sports now and italian volunteer all say has been cleared to return to mo to appear racing as soon as this week and the doctor is going to compete at the german grand prix just six weeks after breaking his leg and practice the seven time world champion already received approval from the zog ziering circuits chief medical officer who also has completed two private tasks in the last week at the bern north to sassy's level of fitness and conference. say

its seventh trailing championship leader jorge lorenzo by over a hundred points. now young muscovites are getting involved in a popular movement and scold gatto workout and allows you to get physical training almost anywhere in the city as one of the most evocative ports now. the wizards the music and these guys up on in it's the most basic park and i've been doing different sports for a while but then i saw a short movie about people working out in the streets and i realized was that i really wanted to do it's called get a workout and started in america young guys from the suburbs used every spamming it's a build their bodies many can order for it to g.m.

. will do for them and it's got one big attraction for young muscovites one of the main idea is that you don't have to pay money it's totally free you can go anywhere you can go to the parks to the schools can find the places to train everywhere in the world and you can transit of people who also want to train have you. know the fitness tradition was strong in the old soviet union but as moscow has grown places to exercise have become fewer and fewer so these guys have come up with a sure way to get all the training be neat because they can work out pretty much anywhere. but you missed about r g. and finally they like cross world championships as

kicked off and majesté in the u.k. the place that invented the sport as a as a thousand years ago looks set to miss the tournaments due to paperwork the american aid to iraq watch is to accept u.s. prosperous bought were allowed to travel to angle on by the us gov. the iroquois confederacy documents however most players still lack the probably just phases while others need clearance from canada they are now stuck in new york after missing their flights to manchester but are still hopeful of making the trip the players however saying that accepting american passports would be a blow to their identity. this is our nationally. i think once or put it in that way people start feeling that good can make the connection to why we're standing so strongly on this this represents our national putting shoni and this is what we're standing for the team when we go over to england and we present our

korean shows at the players table and we wait on our our passports this is what it's all about we're not leaving the u.s. passports we're not laying down canadian passports we're laying down putting no surely passports which are the passports of the whole ensuring that europe or the six nations confederacy that's had for now but for more news you can always log on to our website which is r t dot com and i'll stay with us for the world weather update coming up right after this.

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