of self-sacrifice and terrorism with those who understand fully that you have to live the. real life stories from. nineteen forty five don't. you are with r.t. here's a reminder of the top stories the i.m.f. rose egypt a three billion dollars bailout loan but it's feared it will only line the pockets of the former president's protegees who continue to run the country and some observers suspect the west is trying to bribe a big shots in cairo in retain and retain influence over egypt. america's unemployment rates risen back over a nine percent leaving college graduates learning some partial lessons about why

this might invest in thousands of dollars in their own education just one in five students will find a more. international crew of three is preparing to blast off from cows and stay on a few hours and of them behind the mission are in high spirits a russian an american and a japanese astronaut will spend half a year on the space station. that's the headlines now america's on iran as a worrying echo of what happened over iraq in the view of polls are winning riders seymour hersh has been telling our t. that washington is ignoring its own intelligence because it's hell bent on finding nuclear weapons just don't exist. pulitzer prize winner and legendary american investigative journalist seymour hersh is best known for exposing the my lai massacre in vietnam since then his investigations have continued to shake up washington from uncovering torture and

alba grog to exposing secret u.s. military operations overseas to his latest piece which pokes holes in the commonly held assertion here in washington but iran is the bell of being a nuclear weapons program mr hurst that's down with r.t. to discuss his latest story in the new yorker magazine and here he says the obama administration allowing fear not facts dictate a potentially disastrous foreign policy towards iran mr hersh thank you so much for sitting down with us based on your investigation is the united states wrong to assume the worst when it comes to iran if the fear is based on the notion that you know that some our iran has the bomb or is going to get a bomb so that's ridiculous because every bit of evidence they have it from their own intelligence community. but the people who are part of the birdsville but you know there's no weapons there we've known that for years we've been looking for years there for years and years we supported sanctions program that's designed to stop the punishment is. aimed at stopping the iranians from doing something you

know we know they're not doing for me and i think i wrote me earlier for the analogy between what they're doing with obama's doing with iran is very close to what bush and dick cheney the vice president that did to iraq that is they they they wanted to punish they wanted to make a case against iraq they didn't like the politics. and so we made a case about nuclear weapons i mean if you remember they were talking about mushroom clouds i make a case to go to war i don't i'm not suggesting these guys want to go to war i mean there are elements in america so maybe i wouldn't sit israel that would i would love to see as a tack iran but that would be suicidal. there's no actual evidence of the iranians developing a nuclear weapons program that is why why the the fear mongering and the rhetoric whether it's the administration or the mainstream media there's no evidence that our weaponization there's no evidence anywhere i went they go you go to london you go to you go to you go to the french you go to the germans they also there's a day we thought we still think they might want to go but we don't have

a day it should be open and shut we should move on but we're not instead what you're seeing is their mama going me and what i wrote and they're ignoring it to a point there's always a group that doesn't ignore stuff but the mainstream press basically they have their narrative. and they don't want to change america i've been writing about the secret operations we've had inside iran in the new yorker for about five years because they started in late zero four maybe or five rice president cheney was convinced it was a secret facility somewhere underground in iran and so our special forces units were going in and we went into herat in afghanistan we went into baluchistan. in pakistan we've been going into iran covertly with money and chemicals and support me i've come across i mean but i speak from explosive materials we've been dealing with these young sailor we've been dealing with i mean kurds used to read dissident groups inside iran with the goal of trying to trying to find. neutralizing their

with their weapons program and finding their secret program we found nada nothing and now there's been too internal what i wrote about in a magazine is that the two major internal studies as known as national intelligence estimates so the most echoes think documents we have in our government in terms of an assessment and they both said nothing there but the obama administration disagrees with your. i'm a big deal i mean you know. i'm doing my job when window in the white house is mad at me i could care less and by the way. from my point of view these guys are no more no more then no more straighter with us than the bush white house was and if the shocking thing to say but they're pretty much the same why is the mainstream media not reporting i get a lot of stuff from colleagues around the world were more open than american press is to its criticism of america and i asked somebody one of the guys from the boston globe and who just said something nice to me i said well why don't you write about

it you know you don't have to write my story pick up on it he said but we're not going to give two thousand words to the new yorker. so you do talk about there is now a sense with with the internet and everybody competing for the fewer and fewer dollars that are out there there is a sense of of economic competitive stupid that's only part of what the real issue with all the lying mean being is the white house controls things in a way that they always do and this white house is just as interested in controlling things and when somebody like me comes out you just keep me around that's all and it's easy to do because everybody's very eager but you don't get an hour you get perfectly professional stories representing the view with the ministration but their marketing anybody on the inside is telling them a different story and so we're stuck we're stuck with the major newspapers reporting pretty much what the administration wants and so when somebody like me goes up against them. it's the same story it's happened so this story it's happened

every story i've done since nine eleven really a good one. not so why didn't you come out with a piece that says iran is not of the threat that it's made out to be and you're suddenly considered a heretic it's not about me it's almost institutional as i said they have a narrative and the narrative is iran is bad they're making bombs even if we can't find it we know it must be there right they're evil people and so what's the consequence for the american public if they're not aware that most american public is right there with twenty four hour cable more interested in you know the latest stupid thing some congress and did with the with the with the internet which is chronic and goes all the time has the united states taken the right course in responding to the so-called arab spring you know we have such a we view everything to american prism you know everything about it it's calendrical you know probably who believe that the sun revolved around us and we didn't revolve around that anyway. look if you're an iranian and you know middle

east and you know what's going on in bahrain and you see the white house down with . iran. and criticize the rot at the same time everybody in iran and everybody in the middle east is watching what's going on in bahrain and we say nothing how how do you think it impacts on the. packers see there's no love for us in the middle in that it's not my gulf anymore because we certainly betrayed the trust and in the streets of egypt when obama finally came and supported them there was there was hooting you know they were done with us they wanted him to border leave and so we missed the boat on that those movements were probably the best tools we've had so the better than the use of force that we've been using the night raids and i let stuff in the you know the the renditions and yet he's you know we've backed that up so it's it's it's a it's a true mess this administration is focused on iran is the source of all evil

wouldn't iran is helping is it helping the syrian because iraq do do what it does in syria as if the sunni macabre out in syria needs any help from anybody to get tough they know how to do it but president obama was elected because he was supposed to represent change response to chart this country down a different course than the bush administration cannot come on don't get serious i mean come on so the election we're there to be reelected the only hope for a lot of us have is that in the second term he sets a break i get a second term he'll be able to become the lincoln we thought he might be but he's got he's got he's got a you know he's got a reelection. you could argue that he knows that getting some a good law is great but he's going to be elected with the price of oil and jobs and when the oil is high the economy is tanking become he's thinking right now because we're being we're paying for it after i was sort of oil for gasoline a bear a gallon and so what's his big issue his big issue is he's got to convince the saudis to make nice and look the other way is the middle east people around the

middle east and spend their money because he wants to mean barrels more a day of oil is oil more important than democracy for president obama. what do you think what's your assessment of the obama administration's handling of the afghanistan war ghastly ghastly the the double minus i mean you know everybody. i'm telling you even the most committed hawk with the exception of general petraeus and other people have to see what they have to say i know nobody who thinks we have any future in afghanistan the faster we get out of there i was talking to somebody the other day. a very conservative very pro war person saying i just thought of another american life and really we see in terms of america's in terms of being here afghans. are crazy don't worry it's not worth it not worth one more life and what's going on there is ghastly just ghastly it's it's out of control it's knows good leadership for when you have

a bunch of boys running around in fear of death you know from the landmine although iraq of course is still unraveling iraq as well as we talk day by day iraq's going to be probably obama's biggest problem next year and it's going to be a very tough call about whether he stays or goes with the troops defeat if you keep troops there he's got my father's side and those are the more extreme shia going after it's going to be a bad report on the vietnam war you report on conflicts throughout the years throughout the decades what happened to the learning part of the whole. journey to america. that there is no learning curve we can learn from the past mistakes we haven't spent your life exposing us but i'm also a realist the fact of the matter is that. that we could go into another country about which we know very little with no language and think we could change a society. going into it we think we could do that i mean was there alone you could

you know what we learn we learn from vietnam we went in the grenadier we could even win that one very well you know that was sort of silly so. there was an improvement in the press so i think when ronald reagan went into nicaragua salvadorian it was more criticism so i thought maybe we'd learn something from you but at the last ten years or so the nine eleven. part of it was america a lot of payback we were scared but. the reason we you know i would argue that the american press totally failed after nine eleven we became george's pushes cheerleader and his partner and started looking critically at things and that's happening out to mr hurst thank you so much for your time. in one thousand nine hundred two dr ralph been stripped university of pennsylvania

said what if i can take the gene responsible for growth in human beings and put it into a nice. long haul the main risk issues . he says ninety five percent of all competent scientists in these fields are working for the producer site and only five percent are generally independent. there's not a lot of science that says mentioning this is an healthy for people. to consume which is what the food and drug administration looks at there's a lot of concern about the environmental impacts if the transgenic fish escapes what kind of horrible impact will it have on the rest of the fish population don't know what this might do to us or our children or our children's traver in our congress here in the united states so our legislatures out there will be void all

these different laws tax laws and corporate laws what could be more important than deciding on the permanent genetic future of life on earth. the close up team has been to build a grand richard thank the turning point more to. this time party goes to the regions where half of the area is occupied by a nature preserve. where the young generation transit in their ancestors temps and where the mysterious city of the deadlocks world come to the republic openoffice such a rush to close up on our cheap. morning news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has

been seeing from the streets of canada asked. challenge corporation to rule the day . throws egypt a three billion dollar bailout bone but it's feared it will only line the pockets of the former president's protegees who continue to run the country some observers suspect the west is trying to bribe the big shots in cairo and retain an influence over egypt. america's unemployment rates risen back over nine percent leaving college graduates learning something harsh lessons about life despite investing thousands of dollars in their own education just one of the five students will find work. plus an international crew of three is preparing to blast off from kabul stand in a few hours the man behind the machine are in tight spirits

a russian an american and a japanese astronaut will spend half a year on the space station. because they have a license and x. will take a look at what's happening in the world of sports and yet another test for russia's footballers tonight yeah exactly just a few years ago they won their euro twenty twelve qualifier against armenia a good wind up because they didn't have a great start but next cameroon we've got a preview coming up right. great to have your company this is sports today i'm you know neal and these are some of the stories we're covering this is our. third time of asking russia or previously the soviet union heartbeat in cameroon that mess on the football fields of the african c.b. iraq to break the habit of a lifetime later on she's. staying parts the man regarded as the

greatest mixed martial artist of his generation. values to fight on despite two straight defeats. to the floor of the russian city of course plays host to an auction run two of the domestic. championship. let's take on the football on russia will seek to continue their form of late tonight dick advocates team are in salzburg for a friendly with one of our leading squads cameroon robert downey and he's there for us and he sent us this report earlier. russia has taken another step on the road to the year old twins at all finals by claiming a confident three one home win. although there is still a lot to improve on forward to get the cats men and later on tuesday will get a chance to test themselves against and very ambitious opponents insult here at the red bull stadium cameroon have already been training there the indomitable lions

must be hungry for victory by the time of this friendly against the russians have your commanders men haven't had the best results recently and they are now in danger of failing in their own continental corporate kitchen complain of the twentieth the african nations cup competition they have won twice. the lions can he do targets in the upcoming friendly gay. back to winning ways and saw some old scores against russia the size last met in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and nine hundred ninety four at the world cup finals and on both occasions the africans were threshed by the u.s.s.r. and russia respectively and this is. the only thing i remember about those games was that our legs scored five goals in one of them we're not out for revenge though every match is important of course we want to win cyc. the indomitable lions are looking forward to the hunt the question is who's going to be the hunter well the

russian team's arrival was scheduled for tuesday morning just hours before the game though the advocate's men will be hoping that they won't be deploying robots but only on r.t. . australia. all right european qualifying action also ahead this evening germany's relentless march towards ukraine and poland can become a further year for knowledge see with the three way to azerbaijan the germans haven't dropped a point in half a dozen games thus far the pick of the other clashes looks set to take place in seoul not with sweden going up against neighbors finland sweden attempting to keep pace with the red card group leaders in the it's. ok to domestic matters now we go in russia where. soccer manager yuri crush on the move coming after their latest defeat at home to be the club's boss is blaming the forty seven year old for the

preparations ahead of the two one last local heads also questioning the substitutions cross and john major in the moscow flush the former sports acknowledged manager lasting less than six months in the hot seat. and you reelected free for president sepp blatter says he won't be opening an investigation and the target of tory is twenty eight twenty two world cup paid the middle eastern nation was accused last month of buying votes to secure world for post most prestigious tournament fifa secretary-general jerome valcke had been accused of writing in an email but qatar simply paid for votes he added afterwards he never meant to make direct accusations of wrongdoing in the message leaked by now is suspended vice president jack warner blocker saying of investigating consumer based thing just those words would have set a precedent to check every upcoming world cup host the seventy five year old go left the very final stage of the feat for ethics and solutions committee who can investigate the oil rich nation if they deem it necessary. former russian military

meanwhile looks an increasingly likely candidate to take over at chelsea the sixty four year old currently coach is the turkish national team but it's believed that dutchman's the partner is imminent from there the turkish halfway states however they won't let it go for anything less than six. million dollars if he seeks to terminate his contract that is principal use owner roman abramovich he took over the club hurt seeker in two thousand and nine as a budget on manager at birth evokes sounded more fuel to the speculation by saying he may become the next turkey manager. brings us to tennis where nearly crying french open champion rafael nadal has rounded off a fairy tale fortnight in paris the spaniard showing off his hard earned trophy at disneyland no less the doll given the thumbs up by mickey. following the securing of a six title equalling the record sent by bjorn borg back in one thousand nine hundred one the top ranked star seeing off arch rival roger federer in

a force at florence sunday but after three natal also did just about enough to hold on to his world the one ranking from novak djokovic a proper celebration is an order of the busy tennis calendar simply won't allow for any more. pressure was. before everything right now i just. have to i have to enjoy this moment but at the same time i don't have a lot of time or they have to practice. their women up so but then it is like this . has a buy into the second round of the aegon championships currently underway at tournaments is the start of the grass court season but he certainly won't be coming up against russia's they are soon off later in the tournaments the former world number twenty crushing are to spain's feliciano lopez on day one pursuit up to force a tie break in the first set however was his highlight lopez smushing number eight

wrap up proceedings seven six six against. now arguably the greatest mixed martial artist of all time feud or your million and has reassured his fans that he sticking around the russian stating he doesn't have any immediate plans to retire regardless of the outcome of his next pirates the thirty four. all that is preparing to square off against american done henderson. place in chicago july thirtieth nicknamed the last emperor you millionaire. it's almost a decade but he's lost in his last two are things that giving rise to speculation he might want to power conversely for you all henderson heads into the fight only too much winning streak the american maybe ten programs lighter but there are no would limit for this high the winning country in a yankee stating that shouldn't make a difference and i. convictions i don't think too much or opponent is in any way easier to deal with i've usually

gone up against fighters who are heavier than me but i don't know trying to do my best to give someone who's a beat my turn is not all weight is about ninety seven kilograms and i've been asked to some weight before the fight. brings the cycling where former champion alexander have been a quarter off secure the yellow jersey after the opening stage of the prettier to tough race of warmup events for the tour de france the stage it was won by belgian vanden broke in our six second overall while six towns going across came home and fourth seven seconds behind but that was enough for the us than our rider to take the early lead while russian team katyusha rider blocking rodriguez was second fastest only it's a head of a string. the motor sports finally were cursed in western russia was the place to be for petrolheads this past weekend the city playing host to the second stage of the domestic tiring car championships constantine and were on the

fence were approaching the finish line was an achievement in itself. the organizers have been implementing new strategies to make a serious more popular around russia over the past few years and it seems like they're succeeding as more than ten thousand people flocked to the center of course to watch the race condition has already become a two edition and the locals don't seem to be too bothered by the grueling engines well the drivers and joining the trek stuff like that was the fact that we're driving here for the fourth consecutive time means we like the venue the track is in the very center of the city and it reminds us of the best in town circuits like monaco all ten turns our main features here they're very challenging and complicated which is unusual for sixty votes. the domestic championship was established in two thousand and four and features seven races in the season well and poor thirty three or four russia's best drivers heat the streets to compete in four categories and eleven of those cars failed to finish as all eyes were on the

top battled and speak dec you would seeking and it was no surprise reigning champion mikhail store into a comfortable win in the most prestigious category leaving his opponent beating dust the three time rushing champion started from the pool in the first session and didn't let anyone get close while in the second race began from the sixth place but later outclassed his rivals to clinch the three. so it's been a great race what tactics were right and i managed to fulfil the plan i accelerated in ad ran a group of cars and later others just fighting against my opponents one after another. so now tops the overall rankings but soon his crown will be under threat again as the next race will peak often usually more good in central russia next month because they are but out of our team. and just like up that is your sport for this our world weather is coming up in just a tech then bring us back with all the news at the top of the hour.

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