it's our tree of life from moscow words four thirty in the headlines ta authorities delayed the extradition to the us of the man dubbed the merchant of death that's while new charges brought against the alleged russian arms dealer viktor boot on investigative. mind whistleblower wiki leaks promises to release a secret cia document on wednesday when it comes just a month after lifting the lid on scandalous u.s. military files regarding the afghan war. russian rock music fans aren't eager anticipation as moscow is getting ready to host the irish rock of u two for the first time some eighty thousand people are expected to return to show the world's most expensive staging to date. now since the birth of the idea in ancient greece democracy has undergone many changes in definition but it's still essential for politics and peace that's according to historian and theorist john donne who

spoke to our team in london. democracy originally meant that it's the people who hold the power and excise who you say that in times of today democracy that's a thumping false could you elaborate on that 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 you know very many people rivers in the very definitely are ministers isn't enough inst the systems weren't very large proportion of the population but they did take . public decisions and there went very many people who chose to exercise special. rule to the military leaders

elected and that was seen as a rather undemocratic practice but there is 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. is a greek word for naming that particular set of break arrangements a long time ago and there's arrangements essentially disappeared thousand years ago roughly a little bit less. and they didn't really they hadn't ever 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 their government through complicated public iraq receives. the governing body relatively small numbers of innocents professional politicians. and that's something that is

a very different structure and it's ridiculous to describe that as rude by the people. in today's western democracy has become the only acceptable for government how. 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 a notional 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 all our. school systems well 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 c.

is most a name of a form of government not very clearly defined form of government and a political pretension or party political claim which is a form of government is actually authorized by the people of the very very great majority of states in the world. governments which claim to be authorized by the people 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 they're very briefly and in a way which gives the mix stream little control over the outcome. of the us 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 of the opinion

that the rest of the world should be governed in much the same way as it was government of his has been much the most part. all state in the world over that period of time and it's insisted with a very investments 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 core themselves democracy and neither of which are on the time offering have very strong grounds for calling themselves democracy because that isn't what democracy meant. to us democracy is here with station.

in the islamic wells in the same health class america is sponsoring insurgency hot 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 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 obviously 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 yet to see how democracy see isn't it nowadays in this sort of evangelical way george w. bush sells said 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 negative so if you see what i mean i mean

that claim was made in defense of very a. 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 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 will have. regimes in basic iraq and afghanistan to force 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 to pieces and invading them. without bothering to inform yourself about what was. the views and beliefs and practices of most of their inhabitants. under saddam hussein very hold. no afghanistan which isn't really under any one ever. told 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 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 its

government system. they 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're wrong couldn't be what we call a democracy it was the truth in humans the majority of them who were moving in that direction be assisted to do say by being molested from the outside you hold that introducing democracy into the democratic side she self really has the next facts could you explain 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 theirs in their way. and the results of the sparks the

biggest democracy in the world in our understanding of. all that it has some pretty alarming characteristics in many ways it's been a triumphant success and yet particular 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. i mean it is a very important fact that the. the mayster peace of this group amongst the palestinians won the elections in gaza run they won the elections in gaza because more of the population agreed to what is going on and what it meant than with that of their opponents and i think that. i mean israel with any way. within the jewish population i mean has been

a democracy even 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 to me it can get back from that position but it is clear to me that democracy is irrelevant. thank you very much.

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alleged russian arms dealer viktor who are investigating. now mind whistleblower wiki leaks promises to release a secret cia document on wednesday comics just a month after lifting the lid on scandalous u.s. military files regarding the afghan war. russian rock music fans aren't eager anticipation as moscow is getting ready to host the irish rock for you too for the first time some eighty thousand people are expected to attend the show the world's most expensive staging today. i'll have more details on all those stories at five pm time up next it's the sports news with. 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 a run the globe of the race the host world cup twenty picks up the pace. army men march. ease into the europa league group stages after a six one win over the north so since. that on thursday night expression of figure skating for instance. from the start she left the 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 twenty twenty two world cup finals. russia and england are considered to be in the driving seat for the near a championship but as robert for done reports their bids could be considered chalk and cheese. even with twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two world cups and winning the big leases what milinski russia had been doing you know in

december the second lengthy first executive committee move to sell the hosting countries the russians will know if this dream will continue and whether these computer models are into reality. eleven beats originally submitted to twenty eight thousand world cup is the most contested in people's history i have a book that's an expert in russia assure their country is a strong favorite. i badly want to our 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 your solution i should avoid it i think we have a pretty good chance to weigh in as we always were and when our governments highest officials get involved. i think that will win this contest just like we did with the sochi two thousand and fourteen olympics she. was i hope people will let us

host the two thousand and eighteen world cup were backed by gazprom and dick advocaat will help the russian national team performs very well after a fifth inspection team visit to russia last week we met up with the head of russia's beat committee. who remains cautiously optimistic over the issues i think our chances are very good we are stable among the favored. and it's not only us who thinks so because we obviously would like to think this way but it's foreign media which is unanimous and if any of the russians strongly month leaders every bit every country as if that is now running for three thousand three hundred forty thousand when it's very capable organizers would world assure us and i think people will their choices based whole range of criteria not only on possible. organization hosting. possibilities there are other factors that are also valid.

you know actually government support is one of them very very important it's now two in most of the b.b. inspection and it is the homeland of experts consider as russia's main rival so people meet face to. choosing between a skillful an experienced player eagle and even up to date including really infrastructure in the hope we're going to do all for russia we still need some time to gain power in this respect the move to russia we should beat with eighteen world cup which is weighted to inspire speaks for itself it reflects the importance of the legacy of 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 inspired are so by the organizing and we are ready to transmit the 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 that is reflected in more. in three months before the season rush the seven years get ready for inspiring new claim from a mission like this. because in no. preparations are well underway for the next finals to be held in brazil in two thousand and 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 rio's iconic maracana stadium will be the venue for the final on july the 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 fans building delays in all twelve host 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 our through to the group stages of the league after i classing north to six one on our get read watch the army men move up the ranks in the. just as expected says one of the great sage all the europa league army men defeated north this is from august sixth one on aggregate and the second match in cyprus turned out to be a much tougher affair for the russians as started to great chances right from the get go the separate team created at the six opportunities in the first half but the russian defense clearly outclassed the northeast after the first half century heat certainly affected the speed of the game successfully managed to keep the ball in the midfield for the most part of the game but there was no sign of giving up for our north as the team continued to create opportunities for the strikers symmetric awful managed to capitalize on one of those opportunities as he opened the score

for the cypriots in the seventy fifth minute however it says to equalize through their new coverage say do and should in international markets but we want to just a minute before the end of the match so says scott mosco a clearly the stronger team in this so i. admits that as well into what. was the toughest side we have played against as i said in moscow this is a team that deserves to be in the champions league however i don't know if those who didn't allow 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 want to focus on the game here and play with a serious added to do i think the score in the first leg affected the quality of our play the players energy increased only after we conceded a goal but europe will know their group stage opponents on friday when the draw will be held in switzerland but for now the team is leaving cyprus to prepare for

their next premier league match against a law called for an artsy cyprus. it was a busy night of action champions league qualifying with five teams picking their group stage berths on tuesday serbia as partisan they are into the big time following us. bio never give him a nose f. c. sharif sniff taking in foreign oil on aggregate israel's finest couple 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 severe were left looking in their wounds after a seven goals thriller with portugal's. a limp it career looks all but over the russian figure skating being barred indefinitely from international skating union events with extended to the twenty fourteen winter olympic games in sochi. it all stems from when the twenty seven year old missed 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 i assume deny player eligibility at the end of june but was given twenty one days to appeal the verdict which did not with the bond extended cannot officially come peyton but his wife and coach have said he will be fighting for gold there just how this will be arranged. explained the. brings us to where caster semenya is back in the spotlight following almost a year long absence from the truck pending the results of gender tests than one thousand year old south african will compete in her first big event since returning last month the diamond league meet on friday in brussels. to spend with my friends. to just watch them train news it was

really good. it was a little. upset. you know it was a little bit. finally phil mickelson is a step away from becoming the world's top ranking golfer lefty can do just that up 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 be what he has a week that isn't up to his usual expectations but. regardless of what would what's gone on recently i just expect him to play well just because he's he is who is. that's what i have to leave you for do log onto our to dot com forward slash sport for plenty more on today's stories when weather is coming up just around the corner .

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