well not really but if you're all americans. believe norman finkelstein has never shied away from controversy. the american jail is banned from israel and pledges of support for the palestinian people the author and former professor has lost jobs and get the kidney an average. family heated debates documented in the film american radical i subject we begin with during our teeth interview i want to start with a question about your new documentary american radical it has been described in many ways one being an intimate portrait of a man behind a controversy tell me about the documentary why you decided to make this film actually have not seen the documentary. but many of your surprised by you know some

reason i didn't want to see myself on the silver screen and so i chose not to watch it but my friends many of my close friends watched it and for better or for worse they said it's an accurate portrayal of me. was obviously involved in the making of the documentary. not to be consulted about the content and they were in the future to say that i was making a promo for myself. involved in the money basically feeling was my closest friend over many decades is professor chomsky and i tried to look to him for moral guidance and he made many films or he would participate in these films himself in the bar his personal background so i thought there was nothing politically incorrect or vain about participating in such your. and so i went ahead and did it but one thing that

didn't quite turn out right was i thought there'd be a lot more on my time in palestine and to meet some of my friends from their home but when we went over to shoot that segment of the documentary i was barred entry and so we never really got a full picture from that or you brought up professor chomsky and the issue of being barred from entering israel you know that he was personally in that same situation were you surprised were you not surprised because you yourself had experienced that i was a little bit surprised because professor chomsky is in a category all of his own and however much jews may feel still believe towards him for his political views they still take pride in the fact that professor johns chomsky is a certified in their knowledge genius so they take pride in the fact that he's jewish and a genius and it was surprising that

a person of his stature with also have been turned away and there represents i think you know a serious deterioration in israeli let's just call it decision making the israelis for a long time prior themselves and being very rational as against the emotional arabs but now they're acting clearly very irrational and also counterproductive in their own point of view counterproductive way to make a terrible p.r. for denying an eighty two year old man who is by any reckoning one of the greatest minds in human history denying him entry because it used to be that when israelis dissented the world praised them look how beautiful the israelis are when they do wrong they feel anguished they feel tormented but now for the first time the world is saying we don't care about your anguish and to. ormont we're holding you

legally responsible for what you're doing don't give us the anguish and torment there as it's called in israel the shooting and crying we don't want the tears we want accountability and now israelis feel very threatened because the for the first time in the specially after the goldstone report and the threats of holding israel before the international criminal court they don't want to hear from dissent any more because they're being asked to pay a price last time we sat down. shortly after the war gaza and it was right before. obama became president you were very open in your opinion on what took place and who was wrong and that and that military conflict. it's been over a year since. there's really assault on gaza what's your assessment of how the

obama administration has done so far in bringing permanent peace to the middle east at the time when they made those comments they appear to be very controversial indeed you might even say they were extreme but when the goldstone report came out and bear in mind richard goldstone that's not our only a respected jurist but he's also jewish and by his own reckoning he says zionist goldstone report concluded there were no i'm quoting here that israel launched a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish and terrorize a civilian population while those are pretty strong words punish. civilian population as to the record of the obama administration my recollection is that they didn't have great expectations from what would come of the. administration and in fact it's quite clear that nothing much came. there are occasional spats you

might call them between israel and the united states but there's been no american initiative to try to resolve the conflict in terms of international law the resolution of the conflict which the rest of the world embraces so if you move for a moment away from israel palestine and you take the case of iran since that's very topical now. around kept promise. kept promising there's going to be a change there's going to be a change but in fact as several commentators wrote the barack obama administration is carrying on like all other administrations there was an offer made in october two thousand and nine by the u.s. administration to iran and how to resolve the nuclear issue around that time rejected the offer for several reasons mostly because it didn't trust the main powers who were involved france the u.s. even russia but now except to go the offer and as the

leading academic specialist on the topic american academic specialists trita parsi dr parsi wrote in the washington post he says that barack obama is refusing to take yes for an answer and so there is no real difference between the so-called diplomatic approach of barack obama and the. mill touristic approach as it's sometimes claimed or belligerent approach of the bush administration at the end of the day they demand their what they want is for around to cry uncle for iran to give in to u.s. power maybe barack obama does it with softer words and presents it with a more. appealing image but the policy is basically the same do you think that there was a sound and message also sent possibly to turkey and purcell what that. draft

resolution being introduced so quickly after this swap t l y's are agreed upon with turkey personnel and iran you know well it's quite clear the united states feels like power shifting it's becoming more die fuse and the us doesn't call the shots in every place in the world and turkey has carved out a more independent half in recent years most low notably when it refused to participate in the us attack on iraq. brazil is an emerging power and this was an attempt to cut them down to size less than the topic of the united nations and diplomacy because from what i understand you are lobbying to speak at the your lack of why and what you want to say well i have been involved in the conflict in a public way for the past thirty years i first got involved in june one thousand nine hundred two when israel invaded lebanon and i do feel that in the wake of the massacre in gaza the goldstone report public opinion has dramatically changed

dramatically changed not only internationally but in the united states and there's a real opportunity known to put forth a reasonable settlement to the conflict not only the put forth but for there to be a receptive audience for such a real reasonable settlement and i feel that given my personal background the fact that my parents were both survivors of the nazi holocaust my father was a survivor of auschwitz concentration camp my mother my don their concentration camp every member of their families on both sides were exterminated during the war we never had the nuance on close cousins grandparents nothing we were just as my late mother used to say five people in the world my mother my father and my two brothers and myself my family background my professional background i have written many books in the topic and i think it's fair to say without. sounding immodest am

recognise authority on the conflict and. the fact that i have been personally involved i've made a substantial commitment one might even say my own little way of paid some price for the commitment of maid and most importantly i've tried very desperately very hard to be reasonable to figure out the reasonable proposal based on international law to end the conflict but we should be clear i have no interest in being a vet victory over a vanquished israel i have no desire to no interest and wanting to humiliated embarrass it degraded or as they say push it against the wall so it feels like it has no choice except to strike out we won a reasonable settlement we want a settlement which allows everyone to live proud productive and peaceful lives we want a settlement allows everyone to live in dignity and we want a settlement obviously which is in the accordance with the law with what the world

should look like no you're right in the real world the law is often disregarded and replaced by the use of a big club when you crack people scolds but we're talking about how we think the conflict should end and i think most people understand maybe not people in power regular people who understand the rule of law and that we should respect the law and i think you can reach a large audience without principle and i think the audience is now ready to listen and that's why i want to go to the united nations and hopefully achieve our reasonable settlement of the conflict and we're going to leave it right there thank you very much for staying out and speaking with me thank you.

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stories damage control in a manhunt in washington after the big g. was moved to reports of the afghan war reveal civilian deaths former american soldiers say the country should focus on examining its questionable warfare methods not so exposed to some claim to have received orders to kill everyone in sight to

threaten. once booming now going bust latvians living off charity slam the government for doing nothing to help the country recover from the financial melt leaving many to fend for themselves that used to be the fastest growing european economy but suffered more than other member states from the recession. a magical deception russian authorities give clairvoyance a reading of the road vying to crack down on swindlers trying to force a ban on ads from unprofessional psychics a measure they say will reduce congress and tax evasion. more of those stories in fifteen minutes with me kevin owen and also online of course dot com right now the latest in the world of sport. and some russian interests in tonight's european football fixtures yes yes kevin's in some petersburg occurring in action in romania as they target a place in the champions league that score plus the rest of the games coming up man .

hello and welcome to the sports news live from r.t. in moscow and here are the headlines. european dream zealots are up against remaining inside a rare but one foot in the champions league. while walk of fame russians stanislav generally are not strolls to glory on the opening day of the european four six championships. and qualify to the games london marks two years to go before the start of the twenty twelve summer olympics. and we start with athletics where russia took the first gold medal at the european championships a stanislav year old young of won the men's twenty kilometer walk in barcelona he came home in one hour twenty minutes and ten seconds that was twenty eight seconds ahead of italian alex schweitzer while these yera took the bronze another russian under a clear vault finish sixth and there's

a further chance of gold for russia in the women's event on wednesday the world and then pick champion comiskey sponsored by many to win it. football and the third qualifying round of the champions league residence and petersburg are in romania taking on cheney as their china spy let east side and to reach european football's top flight. and the score. will the hump side down to ten men elsewhere cypriot side omonia nicosia drew one one with red bull salzburg and the earlier game called in the north you have a card to nil up against a get from belgium it's all square between gina and the techs love it but its goal is in spot a cog versus like poznan welsh greek side and you saints against belgium champions and elect the return legs of these games just on tuesday and wednesday of next week . meanwhile brazil's new coach man i mean there's this as being voicing his views after he was. officially revealed as the new national coach on monday the forty

seven year old was in charge of brazilian club corinthians before being named as duncan's replacement and as as has already picked his first quarter twenty four players will fly to new jersey for a friendly with the united states on august the tenth the top stars are missing after world cup duty as only alvarez ramirez silver and rubin here are included from the team went to south africa although the new coach says the us we train just after the national side's disappointing quarter final exit. last says are always difficult to do with in a team that is always considered the best in the world and always think that they're the better the last of the teams all that would have been hit hard in the last year couldn't be like that in the last two world cups but for who will have to take this back we still have technical moves it it true that maybe it will have to invest more to develop the maturity of our players because the only living to europe is very harmful in some situations. meanwhile we're still awaiting news on

diego maradona as a decision is pending on whether or not he stays on as argentina coach the forty nine year old led his country to the world cup quarterfinals and says he wants to remain in charge but only if he can keep his entire backroom staff maradona met the president of the argent time football association on monday for two hours of talks . meanwhile the delegation has moved on to brisbane on day two of their three day evaluation of australia's world cup bid the officials toward the sun core stadium which could be one of the venues to host the tournament in twenty twenty two while other arenas in the state of queensland were shown off at a purpose built exhibition the visiting officials also met young local players the fee for team has six more countries to inspect through russia before announcing their verdict on december the second and the australians say that we all tend to hooks until then. was exhorting charming cowards of the same of the sea for a successful to get the twenty twenty to thirty four world cup the biggest show in

town the biggest show in the world for that matter and what better place to host the world cup than here in quezon. meanwhile russian premier league stragglers clearly have brought back coach alexander coming off to help them fight off relegation count of return seven years later to take up an ailing career who registered a goal the store again sponsor like in the last match however all of the other weekend games did produce scoring results and hear all of them its goals below. live

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formula one now and philippe masseur is looking forward to this weekend's hunger in grand prix hoping he won't get caught up in a situation like he did last year when he was involved in a life threatening freak accident a loose sprain from the car a fellow brazilian rubens barrichello hit massa on the head at full speed he sustained a skull fracture and eye injury which not only threatened to jeopardize his f one career but was almost fatal however he underwent successful surgery and returned this season after a surprisingly speedy recovery massa was on the brink of winning last weekend's race in germany yet he appeared to be given coded instructions from the ferrari stable to that teammate fernando alonso i retained him however the brazilian seems

unfazed by the controversy this raring to go in hungary. definitely looking for two to achieve a good result you know to to present myself to that goal. was in the hospital you know when i arrived in a difficult condition you know just to show how i am now you know and. so thinking about a nice feeling but also a good result which is the most important thing. and in the meantime the fourth wall street basketball cup gets underway in moscow on thursday and the event will see eighteen teams competing over three days all trying to destroy the reigning champions ukraine after winning the first two tournament's russia will be looking to win back their crown and then the neighbors the teams are made up of professionals rather a mix of university students and imus's the sport has really taken off in russia and especially in moscow over the last few years with an estimated ten thousand

people playing the game in the russian capital and as the president of the country's street basketball association says this is down to the sport's dynamism. groomers says of course st basketball has a lot of similarities to classical dance again but the tactics are completely different here the emphasis on individual plane play is often going up against each other going to one of course it's only a quick count with the game lost just eight minutes it would seem to get to twenty one points first win. and finally london has march the milestone of two years to go before the twenty twelve summer olympics where the series about to hit is across the city the official mascot a one eyed monster called wenlock was on hand at the olympic stadium to help unveil a temporary track the venue will host a track and field events as well as the opening and closing ceremonies meanwhile for time olympic cycling champion said chris hoy became the first person to ride a bike at the brand new london velodrome which he helped to design and former

n.b.a. player john and that she showed off his slam dunk skills in the basketball arena the first official merchandise store was also opened in the city on tuesday mare of london boris johnson thomas the british capital one fail to deliver in two years' time. believe me it is going to be a great it's going to look this is going to be it's going to be i think the greatest living games ever but it's very very important that we have lots of people who can. help to guide the world. and that's what the sport for this world isn't by phone or. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. and

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now going bust latvians living off charity slammed the government for doing nothing to help the country recover from the financial meltdown leaving many to fend for themselves. magical deception russian authorities give psychics a breeding of their own to crack down on swindlers and. it's all changing b.p. as well but he takes a. look small for you in the business but it's in minutes time. hello eleven pm you're in moscow eight an evening in london three in the afternoon in new york city right now welcome wherever you're watching us around the world this is the r.t. news channel i'm kevin zero in with the top stories and the pentagon is hunting for the sources behind the biggest leak in u.s. military history.