you're watching r t international live from moscow with me kevin no internet these are the top stories of angry crowds gathered after the protest against a new set of government cuts which are expected to be passed at the end of october it says prime minister george patton fred tries to convince germany's leaders and businesses that a third bailout will help his country avoid bankruptcy. in syria government forces reportedly storm a key opposition town after pounding it overnight with had a machine gun fire moscow's calling on both sides to went to talks to stop the violence while rejecting western sanctions and avoid a repeat of the libyan scenario. and violence flares up between serbia and

breakaway kosovo seven kosovan serves have been injured disputed border crossing and an exchange of fire between protesters and nato peacekeeping troops. and i saw the selfish ivanov's of meats one of the world's leading experts on u.s. foreign policy walter russell mead explains the way the land lies for america's global future. walter russell mead thank you very much for being with us today sir good to be here it's a pleasure now you call this twenty first century while this roller coaster ride in history our time at earth i wonder what skills and thrills to expect before the ride is done well when you look at the way the internet is already changing

everyone's lives you look at how migration is sending people all over the world we look at how the world economy since two thousand has just been up and down and up and down this is much more thrilling than life use to be i was in i came to this part of the world for the first time back in the one nine hundred eighty s. and very little it happened politically for a very long time and they get some ways the unfreezing in russia began and unfreezing in other parts of the world we're seeing it today in the arab spring not necessarily for better not necessarily for worse but for more interesting what do you make of the islands that there is right now in the world hasn't always been that way and it's just that weren't aware or hasn't got it really worse well it it you know it kind of ebbs and flows in the world i mean you think about china in the one nine hundred fifty s. russia in the one nine hundred thirty s. you think about germany of course in the thirty's and forty's so there's been times

when the pace of death was faster than it is now but also times when it was slower . you look at the war in the congo and people say as many as two million people have been killed in a series of civil and international conflicts in the congo in the last and i'm afraid that as we have more technology. we don't become better we simply become more able to do things both good and bad that is technology doesn't change who we are as human beings but it turns up the volume so that we are able to express whatever is in us good or bad more fully so you think it brings the good that's good out of us as much as that as the bad we're all the same as before we are just louder now as you believe that china is in that program or a state i wonder why does it have anything to do with the thought that it's getting older faster than it's getting richer well that's

a problem for china you know pre-revolutionary i don't think i've ever used quite that word but what i see is that the chinese government is extremely competent i have nothing but admiration for their ability to manage a growing the economy and so on and certainly you look at thousands of years of chinese history in many ways this government has delivered more for more people than any other but at the same time every success they have it fostering more growth more development means to have a more complex society which then becomes harder to to manage especially when it comes from the top down corruption becomes more of a problem i think the chinese financial system is. in a much here state than might appears for a very long time the economy has been growing at ten percent a year. it's hard to lose money as

a bank when the economy is growing that quickly so i think there might be a lot of stupid loans and many corrupt local officials their brother in law is getting money for something and so should something happen to knock china off that very rapid path of growth we might very very quickly see that there are many more more many. then then it now looks like they have settled that case what the chinese revolution look like. i left my crystal ball at home. but i think what you would have is is more than a billion people all trying to live their lives in their own way and i think you'd have a lot of confusion you look at. chinese history and certainly before one thousand nine hundred forty nine you had a very long period of chaos and disorder before an order was formed it might take china a while but that's it's so speculative so i know that you're an advert democrat you

voted for obama house it disappointed you in some ways yes in some ways and. i have to say when i voted for him i didn't think oh this is the one everything is going to be perfect i thought that he would be able to manage our foreign policy. affectively not perfectly no one and i think he has. i think we're in fairly good shape and he's been able to do some of the things that the bush administration tried to do but without all the trouble and aggravation and some noise which is good domestically i think he made some mistakes at the beginning. he thought that the country had elected him to transform the country i think he was actually look to be more like bill clinton and try to keep everything nice and so he's gotten out because he tried to do too much

and do some things people didn't expect or want he's now on the defensive and this is a a difficult time for him what do you think shapes the valleys of a promise of restoration lot of things i think he's very much a product of the kind of ivy league educational system. he sees himself i think is part of a new kind of america almost the millennial generation in some ways looking to build a post racial society i think he does he's he's not as much on the left as some people have thought a years ago i don't think that's right i think he i would consider him or a kind of a techno. and in the mold of people like mcgeorge bundy the sort of the great harvard's technocrats of the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's i think is where he is getting is going to get re-elected that's very

hard to say i know that you have described the united states and you in japan us financially responsible superpowers so i was wondering how do you think the world can afford to be led by responsible superpowers well of course there are a lot of financially irresponsible non superpowers too i think financially they're not superpowers right but at what i guess what i'm saying is who else can it be led by that was going to my second question that if united states actually loses their leadership who would it be called that's partly why i think it may be less likely that the u.s. will lose and in some ways the dollar as a reserve currency it's the chinese are not going to internationalize theirs for a while the euro is is not really an alternative to the dollar so what is it the swiss franc south african rand look at but do you still get a sense that the superpowers are losing says of per prince and it in fixation or not. i think that the american economy is in

a period of deep restructuring if you look at the last three hundred fifty years of sort of the rise of global capitalism you'd argue that the british and the americans have we've had many financial crises ever since the south siebold in the dutch tulip bubble even in some ways and when there's a financial crisis and economic crisis some countries seem to be faster to innovate and some countries say we knew capitalism was a terrible system all along we're going to have nothing to do with it so the argentina's ins and some others try to get away from it and then when the time comes for the next wave of grown. with they've isolated themselves i think the british and the americans and are still prepared to try something new my guess is that the whole world has reached a stage where the old system economic system doesn't work we don't know how to make

the transition to the in the reform during around trying to invent i think the americans are going to get there faster than some others so let me just recap because there's been a lot of talk with past three years about that world becoming not collar. and european things are going to stay the way they are the world order for a while well i guess what i would say is the whole the goal of american foreign policy is not actually a uni polar world i think people. think that the united states actually is more a graduate corbo and that is we would like to be left alone for example the european union from the united states point of view is the perfect solution the europeans aren't going to work with each other they aren't going to war with us they're pretty prosperous they like a lot of the things we do so the european if the united states had a dream for europe that would be it it's ok now we have much less

power in europe than we did in one nine hundred forty five when we could decide who ate what's ok but you have much more power in other parts of the world right but again what we owe and sees we would like every place to more or less be like europe happy rich at peace so that you can be left alone so right so that the world would be the way we want it to be but we wouldn't have to make it perform that's the american goal and so in that sense. multi-polar world in which most or all of the polls kind of like the american way without us make an. you see that's the goal and to some degree the emergence of in the the emergence of europe the fact that brazil is growing into just that kind of. suggests that that we're getting that what americans would consider

a been non multi-polar would be rather than say the one nine hundred forty s. when you had the soviet union sure many enter panned out all heat that system and are trying to destroy it how would america like to see russia america would like to see russia happy free democratic and secure thank you very much for this interview thank you. wealthy british players in.

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top stories from r.t. tonight angry crowds gather in athens to protest against a new set of government cuts which are expected to be passed at the end of october it says prime minister george papandreou tries to convince germany's leaders and businesses that a third payload will help his country avoid bankruptcy. government forces reportedly storm a key opposition town in syria after coming in overnight with heavy machine gun fire moscow is calling on both sides to enter talks to stop the violence while rejecting western sanctions are no boarding a repeat of the libyan scenario. and violence flares up between serbia and breakaway cos of a seven course of them serbs have been injured of disputed border crossing in exchange of fire between protesters and nato peacekeepers. twenty to forty six

moscow time thanks for being with us wherever in the world you're watching this culture of the school now you can see how you know that cars are men really did live up to their name today with a real battling performance and i wasn't quite enough into just a step too far yeah exactly kevin you know when it comes to giants of european football there are much bigger than in trying to prove that tonight they got the win when really that shouldn't have but that's of course the big teams do we have a look in the rest of the champions league final in just a sec. thanks for your company this is sports there are plenty ahead over the next eleven minutes or so including. army men disarmed c.s.k. moscow fight back from two goals gone but still lose to interrupt for a five pool european cup thrower in moscow. team green's former

world number one golfer tiger woods joins up with the new caddy folding the breakup of his thirteen year partnership with another bag steve williams. in time rushes rugby team enjoy a day off from talking scrums on tactics of the world cup testing their mental picture park in using. their pictures more than the moments but one of the biggest nights all of the russian football year has ended in disappointment for the home side sisk i'm also going to tell you giants enter in their second champions league group much of the season it was. polo me who had visitors chewed up after only twenty three minutes but since good didn't lie done first housing the deficit on the stroke of half time through allen as a go ahead before knocking out deserved equaliser seventy seven minutes in from viking love it was interview would have the final say of morrow it's all about the

strike eleven minutes from time earning the milan men their first win of that company. night seven all their games not just on the way scoreless through arch in europe however trabzonspor were seeking their second straight win in c.s. group the year off against french champions league will buy in munich are hosting shell beings league that becomes manchester city while not. all soon grew pay with both teams seeking a first win in this year's tournament money. yes tonight are going head to head with group c. leading lights ten feet count rumania new voice absolute are in action record nine time title one is real madrid are home to the spanish side lead group d. after a one zero win over a fortnight ago bottom place croats themselves are taking on seven time french champions league on the score of the top of your screen there is of course three to ensure that's how it's finished michel platini stated preparations out all for euro

two thousand and twelve venues in ukraine are moving along a quote satisfactory pace for president though pointing out a country which will co-host the four pulling event with poland still has work to do. the preparations are going very well there i would say leave the roof isn't finished seen done is there are some hotels which i'm finished and then hurt you the transport isn't finished these are small problems for their going ization of the competition but today concede was difficult at this time for ukraine and for three years ago france have gotten easier what. russia is rich in gymnastics team has every reason to celebrate after clinching top spot the twenty eleven world championships seven gold and six silver medals heels and events in moscow on tuesday the squad receiving their just rewards from sports minister telling would go following this month's triumph can i ever in particular drawing major plaudits

for her exploits the siberian native winning six out of a possible six schools in france the twenty one year will not quite incredibly a seventeen time world champion in the sport but with the olympic games fast approaching conniver isn't about to take it easy. yes. we tarried it is to get to london next year we have many more in competitions ahead and only a few weeks before the olympics will see who is selected so what i have to do now is train hard and try to keep healthy. for fourteen time major winner tiger woods has unveiled a man he hopes can return him to past glories the former world number one her. his new caddie woods fired his previous bugman steve williams in july after a thirteen year partnership the thirty five year old american arthurlie and himself who's best known for his long term association with another former world number one

fred couples who has been without a title for over two years on this that the fiftieth in the world since the much publicized revelations about his private life and subsequent to force. brings us the paralympic sportswear the third annual. national awards ceremony took place in moscow on choose the events named after the famous russian journalist who is probably injured during a competition just weeks before the nine hundred eighty games all the major wars going to for time prolific champion russian skier erik is repulsed although it wasn't only part libyans who shot on the serve only the amusing look at punctuality who's been suffering with a muscle disorder since in the board a serious illness can be overcome the comedian showing off the same down study performed up to twenty ten winter olympics opening ceremony. eight years ago

i was unable. six years ago i could only take three steps today and taking one more is that. mazing stuff that brings us to rugby words are always witness probably the third every time in world cup history today remarkably it was japan and canada who fought to a steel mill at the same side it's also true at the two thousand and seven tournament the game in here played in kerfoot conditions and with the most positive of approaches canada eventually fighting back to deny japan the second ever world cup with twenty three apiece how it ended up after that italy ensure their qualification for the twenty fifteen games of victory over the united states because you're also still in with a show to beat aren't in this year's quarterfinals following the fullness point wins in nelson. ok let's clear up the world cup where russia's final match of the

tournament takes place on saturday against australia the players using their own time to fit in on adrenaline packed afternoon en route to ruin our correspondent richard poor feet went along and was let's say a reluctant participant. it's been a tough day at the world cup of the russians but they were finally given a chance to let their hair down a little adventure park in route to room. jumping off a forty three metre platform might not be everyone's idea of fun but it certainly was for denise a plucky image twenty year old completed one lifelong ambition recently but scoring a try on his world cup debut was a move of course minutes native also on the very first bungee jump however we know it wasn't the only one once a good piece of the action is followed by possibly a team if he clearly is keen to free himself from the known globally highlights the

northampton saints player said it was a fantastic for real. possibility. there's the weather before and this is a dream come true hopefully i'll have enough for strength to go to the budget deficit. the play is one i kids in a candy store and we try the rides time after time after time. even though some of russia's challenges seem more interested in getting better acquainted with the local animal population. england recently got roundly criticized for doing similar been tracked unities of the russian coach kingsley jones couldn't have been more different in his approach saying it was a wonderful distraction for the players ploy i think it's important you know we've worked hard for the last. hundred twenty days and they need to refresh recharge now . she's lot of technical things we can work on but think it's going to. make us

part of it before because surely as everybody we are fresh mentally physically and you know the mental thing mental rest and change from coaching is and getting coach and training every day is important of course this is a fantastic break from the russian players who made great use of their free time well many of whom clawed activities like this for the first time in their lives but it's there was no way that artie's correspondent was going to get away scot free. or are. bright or very american. so i am forty metres out there. well say. i managed to live to tell the tale just a buyouts. but that didn't prove to be the end of my new found freedom seeking experience. the russian favorite is argo decide to give

it a try as well on a go. russia number seven company first go go. russia will now move to nelson on wednesday ahead of bethel in a world cup game among the children finished for them on saturday they will certainly have some fantastic memories. the funny thing is we sent richard out there to do work i'm not sure he's doing it but he is sending us packages create pictures earlier thoughts all the sport for the night whether.