live from moscow and you're with our to our top stories what minds beneath the u.s. ministration goes to great lengths to get its hands on the up bloods to russian arms dealer viktor blood testing the limits of international law as they push for this urgent extradition. the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks announced a fresh revelations of the c n concerning the cia just a month after infuriating the pentagon by publishing its secret documentation. prodigal prince a self-proclaimed royal six to a victory the russian president from the kremlin saying it's his god given right to the country. big apple of discord plans to build a mosque near ground zero in new york has split opinion and some saying the issue is just a way of drawing attention from america's economic struggle. not since the birth of

the idea nation greece democracy has undergone many changes in definition but is still essential for politics and peace that's according to historian and theorist john donne who spoke with our two years more and in london. democracy originally meant that it's the people who hold the power and exercise you say that sometimes that's a thumping could you elaborate on well it's not what we have today because very obviously i didn't rule the united kingdom and you didn't prove the united kingdom and. so you could argue about how many people do it but certainly not very many people in the very definitely most of this isn't in the nothings the systems weren't a very large proportion of the population but they did take major public decisions

and there went very many people who chose to exercise special absurdity and move to the military leaders elected and that was seen as a rather undemocratic practice because of this being necessary because in a war you want to be quite sure that you were led by the people who are most likely to lead you to victory do you think that democracy as it exists today has changed for better or who us first what democracy is is a greek word for naming that particular set of break arrangements a long time ago and there's arrangements essentially disappeared too and all thousand years ago roughly a little bit less and they didn't they have never really reappeared except on a very small scale and they don't have much to do with the way in which any modern state is gulf states much bigger. and they are there they are gotten through complicated public iraq receives. relatively small

numbers of innocents professional politicians. and that's that is a very different structure and it's ridiculous to describe it as rude by the people . in states western democracy has become the only acceptable for government how did . well it's essentially happened because the. two principal competitors to us and western history. and aristocracy collapsed in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century and what we now call democracy is what was left instead which involves all the citizens almost all citizens. at least emotional form in the way the power is actually held which involves some very very sporadically and pretty feebly i think one could say do you think democracy can be

used to cover our. school system when i think it always is i mean that is in a way the main point i want to make i mean this is the walker see is the name of a form of government not very clearly defined form of government and a political pretension or party political claim which is that a form of government is actually authorized by the people or to the very very great majority of states and. governments which claim to be authorised by the people at large but if you ask how the people actually do their authorizing the answer is they have a very very small bit paul revere they intervene in some countries barely at all and in any countries only every few years and very briefly and in a way which gives the mix stream little control over the outcome. in the us it's

had a profound effect on democracy could you describe that roughly speaking since the end of the second world war the united states has definitely been the opinion that the rest of the world should be governed in much the same way as it was government has been much the most part. state in the world over that period of time and it's insisted with a very vehement and very coercive inus on the merits of its way of its approach to governing to other peoples and obviously. for a long period of time between shortly after the end of the second world war and the collapse of the soviet union it was essentially in a global power struggle with a completely different way of organizing and both of which i mean called themselves democracy a base of which had some grounds for accord themselves democracy and neither of which are on their time offering have very strong grounds for calling themselves

democracy because that isn't what democracy meant. to us first to democracy it's good with suspicion. in the islamic world in the same health class america is sponsoring insurgency. twenty first century democracy the united states has no particular insight into most of the rest of the world and it's. a long time a very considerable set up with some power over any other potential competitor and it has. a very considerable overconfidence about its capacity to judge what's good and bad for other countries and all the state under the. george w. bush presidency it interferes a lot in other parts of the world on the basis of that judgment in a very indiscreet way and we have seen how democracy see now days in the sort of evangelical way george w. bush himself said that democracy was the best weapon in fighting terrorism what did

you think when he said well i thought he was a fool. i thought he was a fool and the people behind him were knaves if you see what i mean i mean that claim was made in defense of. very forward military and political policy on the united states of the united states in various parts of the world and that policy has not proved at all wise and it was inherently objectionable in some respects. no decent motives behind the tool but there were a lot of not very decent motives behind it and it was a very stupid policy what has the legal regime not going to tell us about the process of democratization the process of democratization you could say is progress towards a very good outcome which hasn't actually come out anywhere in the world so if you have an ambitious can of democratization what those two experiences taken together

of tortoise is that it's absolutely hopeless to try to move fast in the direction of that and by bombing countries pieces and invading them. without bothering to inform yourself about what was. the views beliefs and practices of most of their inhabitants. under saddam hussein very whole. new afghanistan which isn't really under any one ever. promising candidates for rapid democratization and it isn't possible to democratize anywhere by bombing it in invading it do you think that democracy is in essence compatible with. me. yes i do i think it's quite likely that this in the longer run. any islamic country

which is really successful economically. will. flourish culturally and will insist on something much more like what we call democracy as it's governmental system. but it won't be able to do so rapidly and there's a lot of stuff in the way i don't think it's true for example that you couldn't be what we call a democracy it was the truth in humans the majority of them who are moving in that direction be assisted to do say by being molested from the outside you hope that introducing democracy into a democratic society selflessly has next to facts playing out where it depends on how you do the introducing a bit i mean you could say in a way that in the very long run britain introduce democracy into india. but it did so jolly slowly. and the absolutely crucial point is that at the

point that it introduced democracy it withdrew briskly. the indians. got on with this in their way. the results of the sparks the biggest democracy in the world are not understanding of democracy all that it has pretty alarming characteristics in many ways it's been a triumph of success and here you see clearly pessimistic about the ability of democracy to bring peace to the middle east well i do think that the middle east is not the sort of place where democracy is going to assist peace foxed. i mean it is a very important fact that the. the mayster peace of this group amongst the palestinians won the elections in gaza and they won the elections in gaza because more of the population of greed. is going on what

it meant than with that of their opponents and i think that. i mean israel anyway. within the jewish population i mean it has been a democracy since it became a state but it hasn't become much more specific as a result of being a democracy and it's. started off in a very bad place and. it's not a too clear to me i can get back from that position but it is clear to me that democracy is irrelevant. thank you very much. come.

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the happy with us this is sports today i mean these are some of the stories we're covering this hour ready to inspire and that's the motto russian football fans hope will be seen around the globe plus the race to host world cup twenty picks up the pace. man march. ease into the europa league group stages after a six one win over north texas. and on the same nice russian figure skating princess amy fish tank is banned from the such a limited game but his team and he will compete in twenty eight fourteen. for not coming up but we start with football by the end of the year we'll know the hosts for both the twenty eighth twenty twenty two world cup finals as it stands at russia and england are considered to be in the driving seat for the near a championship but as robert for daniel reports there could be considered chalk and

cheese. eighteen and twenty two want to do world cups and winning the big leases would. have been. in december the second because exactly the committee to see the host countries. this computer move your into reality. originally submitted twenty eighteen world cup is the most contested in people's history. books and experts in russia assure their country is a strong baby. badly worn talk country to host the world cup it would be a great pleasure for me to be possible to vent like this even just a fan it will give russia a significant boost in terms of football infrastructure and economic development. yes lucian i should avoid it i think we have

a pretty good chance to weigh in as we always weigh in when our governments highest officials get involved. and it badly will win this contest just like we did with the sochi two thousand and fourteen olympics. i hope people will let us host the two thousand and eighteen world cup backed by gazprom and dick advocaat will help the russian national team's reforms very well after a thief inspection team visited russia last week we met up with the head of russia's beat committee. he remains cautiously optimistic over the issues i think our chances are very good we are stable among the favorites. and not only us who think so because we obviously would like to think this way but it's foreign media which is unanimous and if any of russia's strong among the leaders every bit every country because it is now running four thousand three hundred forty thousand twenty three place capable organizers for the world that's for sure and i think

people will. their choices based on the whole range of criteria not only on possible. organization hosting. possibilities there are other factors that are also valid and actually government support is one of the very very important one it's now england's two and most the b.b. inspection and it is this homeland of football which experts consider as russia's main rival so people meet face a tough dilemma of choosing between a skillful an experienced player evil and good enough to date including really infrastructure and a young hopeful with blended all for russia who still need some time to gain power in this respect the move to russia's we shall beat with a twenty eighteen world cup which is weighted to inspire speaks for itself it reflects the importance of legacy the importance of. the impact of the world cup

not only in our country but also to neighboring countries in the world community in general we are in support of our so. we're going to get there we are ready to transmit this inspiration to the rest of the world by sharing our knowledge by sharing. our football development programs with the rest of the world and that is reflected in. the speed for the season which is seven years sporting. these. books but. preparations are well underway for the next finals to be held in brazil in twenty fourteen but like its predecessor south africa some of the country's major works are a little behind schedule sitting in the shadow of the christ of the redeemer statue iconic mark on the stadium will be the venue for the final on july thirteenth the world famous arena which hosted the one nine hundred fifty decider was supposed to have been closed all of july for

a much needed renovation but it's only now that the two thousand seater is in off grid mode ultimately the m r calif should fit ninety thousand. billing delays in all twelve whose cities have been front page news in brazil but the good news is they have almost four years to get off. ok let's stay with football where scott moscow are through to the group stages of the europa league after i classing north to six one on our get. watch the army may move up the ranks in the. just as expected says one of the great sage all the europa league the army men defeated the north this is from a six one on aggregate and the second match in cyprus turned out to be how much tougher a pair for the russians as i don't forsee starting to create chances right from the get go the super team created at least six opportunities in the first half but the russian defense clearly outclassed the northeast after the first half security certainly affected the speed of the game as say scott successfully managed to keep

the ball in the midfield for the most part of the game while there was no sign of giving up for a north or season as the team continued to create opportunities for the strikers scimitar coffer managed to capitalize on one of those opportunities as he opened the score for the cypriots in the seventy fifth minute however it says come also managed to equalise through their new comer say do and should in international markets this puts a squad she want to just a minute before the end of the match so says scott mosco a clearly the stronger team in this so i told you i don't think this admits that as well into what. was the toughest side we ever played against as i said in moscow this is a team that deserves to be in the champions league however one of those is student allowed to display their full potential today as we try to control the ball throughout the match and try to always play in the attack. as much as we wanted to focus on the game but here and play with a serious and i think to score in the first leg affected the quality of our play

the players energy increased only after we conceded a goal which up to scott moscow will know their group stage opponents on friday when the draw will be held in switzerland but for now it seem is leading cyprus to prepare for their next premier league match against rome on call for an artsy larnaca cyprus. it was a busy night of action champions league qualifying with five teams picking their group stage berths on tuesday serbia on there into the big time following a. bol never give me an minnows f.c. sharif sniff take me in for no i get israel's finest cup well we'll be dreaming about the burnable old trafford on the rest after seeing off souls burge red bolt verger left at least to knock out some doria while the biggest shock of the night happened in spain where sivia were left looking in their wounds after a seven goals thriller with which builds. a career looks all but over the russian figure skating green being barred indefinitely from

international skating union events with no extended to the twenty fourteen winter olympic games in sochi. it all stems from when the twenty seventh the world championships in true in back in march after filing paperwork citing leg injury is reason for the withdrawal however went on to perform in the king's on ice tour with events taking place across the globe in march and april because of this the. eligibility at the end of june was given twenty one days to appeal the verdict which did not with the stand did it cannot officially compete and cheap but his wife and coach have said he will be fighting for gold there just how this will be. explained the. brings us to the medics where caster semenya is back in the spotlight following almost a year long absence from the truck pending the results of gender tests the nineteen

year old south african will compete in her first big event since returning last month the diamond league meets on friday in brussels. it was quite the b. was a lot of time to spend with my family and friends to my chain but most are new to just watching them train news for the it was really good. but you might actually do it was a little. absurd to me you know it's just in the new school it was a little bit. finally thought mickelson is a step away from becoming the world's top ranking golfer lefty can do just that the barclays on thursday the first event of the p.g.a. playoffs despite the recent struggles. on tiger woods mickelson says he expects nothing but the best from his longtime rival i expect him to play well every week so it's more surprising to me what he has a week that isn't up to his usual expectations but. regardless of what what's gone

on recently i just expect him to play well just because he's he is who is. not for i have to leave you do log onto our team dot com forward slash sport for plenty more on today's stories where the weather is coming up just around the corner. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world join us acknowledging update on our jeep.

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