i know what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into khan's report on r t. eight thirty am in moscow these are your r.t. headlines scores of occupy protesters arrested across the u.s. in confrontations with police as authorities confiscate confiscate tents and then people from happening overnight meanwhile bad weather hits the east coast testing activist terminations you can see anti-corporate fight going. to call it narrowly averted but it's now another troubled euro zone nation crying out for help portugal wants to renegotiate terms of its bailout raising concerns the new rescue fund may not be enough to avert a new wave of debt. feuding russian billionaires romana promoted and boris

berezovsky throw their fortunes at a high cost battle in the u.k. court bears off the accused of robbing him of billions something that chelsea football club owner to not. a u.s. audit recently uncovered billions of missing dollars intended for iraqi construction projects were delivered to the country's authorities in two thousand and three up next our team talks to a man who says the u.s. wasting its cash in building a false democracy in iraq. we're sitting down with peter van buren state department for in service officer who a few years ago had it anyway radically reconstruction team then he came back home and wrote a book titled we meant well how i helped lose the battle for the hearts and minds of the iraqi people and now he says the state department one thing fired because of the book what what's in the book that they don't like so much and i'm sure when you

throw parties the clowns they sometimes get angry state department is a lot like the mafia you don't talk about the family outside the family and the state department was i think bothered by the fact that i told the true story of what happened in iraq which contradicts what they've been putting out through the media for almost eight years now tell me a little bit more about the projects that you were involved in as part of this nation building a team that in the sponsored by the united states why do you think those projects failed around two thousand and seven number of state department people were sent to iraq to spend a lot of money to rebuild the country and hopefully create a nation that was going to be our ally and friend and a happy spot in the middle east didn't work out that way. instead what happened was that we were sent over there with almost unlimited funds but no vision we had lots

of time and lots of people but no one in charge we lacked many things including adult supervision so instead of the long term coordinated efforts that real development work requires we got short term efforts that were thrown together not guided by any broader philosophy and almost were required to fail the very first thing that happened to me was i was presented by my team mates with a fraudulent receipt to sign they had over spent three thousand dollars on snacks for a conference and wanted me to sign off on a priest a receipt for printing to make it all right they then tried to talk me into spending twenty five thousand dollars to buy a few sheep to give away to a few widows and that was are going to be our contribution to democracy and the war effort the more i look at it was as close to we were going to buy some sheep from a guy who was going to give them to his relatives who were going to raise them and put the rest in his pocket you could buy a toyota for what we were going to pay for sheep in iraq. the problem was that

these were not isolated incidents what i thought might have been just a really bad first day at work turned out to be evocative of the entire year of our people so there was like a systematic squandering of resources they're absolutely squandering of resources occurred at very small ovals a thousand dollars a couple thousand dollars here and there and soon all the way up into hundreds of millions of dollars that were spent on hospitals that never opened or prisons that never took any prisoners in the united states live to plan we're constantly being forced into short term solutions we were constantly being asked to produce publicity stills and have something ready by next thursday for the photographers to show up c.n.n. is coming over the weekend better get something ready none of these things were part of the long term the slowed work of development that really is necessary if you're serious about rebuilding a country i want to read something to him he's serious some use irate the

government watchdogs have raised the alarm about billions of dollars of warzone greyson fraud are falling siling or are missing in action this. item is actually about the commission on wartime contracting and that charter that they were working under it has expired and has not been renewed and i'm just going to tell our viewers that this commission on wartime contracting claimed waste and fraud may have siphoned off up to sixty billion dollars from contracts in iraq and afghanistan and now this watch that could be out of business are you surprised who might be interested in it i'm actually ashamed that the commission on wartime contracting is going out of business and there's actually more to it than even the story that you just shared with your viewers first of all the state department has attempted to exempt itself from the scrutiny of the committee that you refer to the state department has claimed that it was not part of wartime contracting that it was involved in diplomacy. and therefore not controlled by it organization and they

didn't want them to peek into what the state department was doing even worse the committee as it's dissolved has sealed all of its records and no one will be allowed to see any of the results of its work it's already been published until two thousand and thirty one so the things that the committee on work time contracting uncover the incredible amounts of waste fraud and mismanagement that they documented in the limited public documents that they do produce all of that is being swept away i don't know how old i'm going to be in two thousand and thirty one going to be a lot older than i am now but it's shameful shameful that we would not be able to see that information why aren't they allowed to publish that before we official version is that there may be classified information in some of their reports that needs to remain undercover for that long i think most intelligent people realize that the reporting from the committee is so horrific it needs to be put away to

avoid embarrassing the government even further the u.s. government says we brought freedom and democracy to iraq it doesn't matter on what grounds will end if they're true or false they prove to be false but anyways we got rid of a terrible man in power and we are building a democratic society there that's the argument you were out there in the field but what is the reality on the ground as you saw it first of all i don't think you can dismiss so casually because that set america to war in iraq we entered the iraq war under the guise of looking for weapons of mass destruction when we didn't find any as if there ever a word and we then changed it to the new medium which is all we got rid of saddam he was a terrible man who brought freedom from iraq saddam was not a nice guy i'm not here to defend you no one could possibly defend his actions. however. we killed over one hundred thousand iraqi citizens some of whom were

killed regularly by the united states some of them were killed in the sectarian violence that we set loose in the aftermath of our invasion of iraq today remains in the bottom percentages of any statistic the u.n. cares to count access to water access to medical care access to education iraq is not a place that represents the investment of sixty three billion dollars in reconstruction funds iraqis had a number of elections but it doesn't have a democracy press reports are constantly reporting secret prisons militias targeted killings government killing soldiers people in military uniforms committing assassinations bombs going off none of those things are indicative of democracy i think if that's what freedom represents most iraqis are not very comfortable with it and i think the united states failed in its efforts to bring freedom to iraq there's one thing that very few in washington admit and that is that is the feet.

actually they're talking about whether or not it was immoral to invade iraq a but not quite about what the feet and what were you writing in this book is like a raw material of failure or do you really see it such as a defeat absolutely i actually title the title of the book actually includes the catchphrase i helped lose this war and i accept my responsibility for not doing better than i should have and that i'm very most americans really stand by if their government continues spending so much money in iraq they were told about with false by next year and now they hear that washington is maneuvering can stay there beyond that deadline what's your feeling why it is washington want to stay in iraq who benefits from it i myself i'm not sure why the united states has spent and continues to spend so much money in iraq i think one of the old sayings when you're in a hole the first you need do is stop digging does apply. the united states has said

that they don't benefit from it so one does not know the iraqi people they made it clear that they don't you know they but they but do they have a say when their government gets all that money from the u.s. and essentially there's no i don't think any of the money is going to the iraqi people i think a lot of the money their government is going to government leaders i think a lot of the money just disappears no one knows where billions of dollars actually physically actually went however it is interesting to note better iraq is planning to buy a lot of weapons from the united states iraq is hoping to buy a number of f. sixteen s they already have bought and will continue to buy and one tanks from us all of these are very expensive toys and more importantly come with very long tails each of these tanks requires maintenance requires spare parts requires extra equipment and requires trainers and mechanics it's not like buying a car where you get the state department pushes those contracts but i know for a fact that we do it's one of the duties of the state department is to help sell

american products overseas and we work very closely in a number of countries around the world with the military in order to sell american weapons that's not a secret it's not unique to iraq in any way whatsoever a foreign military sales represent a significant duty of the military in conjunction with the state department overseas what is difficult about iraq is that this is a country that doesn't seem in a position from afford these type of things iraq is a country where people don't have access to water don't have access to medical care don't have access to electricity and instead of spending on those things their government is buying weapons and getting itself to the united states for years to come something seems wrong there now i understand why the state apartments are fired but thank you very much for this interview thank you very much i.

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the. scores of occupied broken. there is a respite across the u.s. in confrontations with police as authorities confiscate tens and ten people from camping overnight meanwhile bad weather hits the east coast testing activist resolve to keep the entitled brits like go. greek default narrowly averted but it's now another troubled euro nation crying out for help portrait gold wants to renegotiate terms of its bailout of raising concerns because the e.u. rescue fund is not enough to avert a new get a. few days the russian billionaires and i'm on a remote beach in boris berezovsky throw their cash at a high cost battle in the u.k. there is also the abuses are robbing him of billions of dollars something which also you football club owner do not. sports up next with dmitri stay with us.

hello there welcome to this court. is groups have a company again this hour and in this book it's. already a champion who needs more victories red bull sébastien fatso claims the inaugural formula one indian grand prix in style. sudden death playoff victory in northern ireland's rory mcilroy win fishing on last tuesday in china. and put them dreams to catch up with the man to turn in to secure russia. triathlon medal next summer. but let's. have ensured their will and the

russian premier league regular season in a position that finished crucial for the negative rich club as the top teams this year will to battle for the crown the start seeing or for a stop at home for only their first win in a dozen games here is ripped off. at the end of the first half before another big name signing some well i thought double late ten minutes before the final whistle. and fletcher frank an injury time leaving the final score to go on to the heights country will be very much aware improvement is needed in next month's. i. knew boys could dance had already insured they'll be in that top a title on the season but just for good measure they went out and won their city with a sick person there on saturday the league's top scorer at last in a trial run backing a brace away from home off the ground taking time to cement some position.

between spots to finish off the day a great outing for the home side spot smashing the railway men's twelve match unbeaten streak at the lose against a don't. care with particular reason to smile as the nigerian international help himself to trick couple came inside the first fifteen minutes of again. and start. at the end several minutes after the break and cheering the red and whites would go eleven points with that moment in position. with martin on more school have gone third in the table following a turn away victory. for mobile industry the stars and i think ronnie contributed with the goal their balls their midfielder put the visitors in france after his precise free kick on the twenty eighth when it's runny double delayed in a flashing counter-attack fun minutes before the break i go second meeting tony

attended in favor of the muskrats. and in the last match of game we trying to niklaus a vet of beat f.c. terry in some c one to be late for anton but after thirty minutes. of side levelled matters within another five cats in the equaliser there but after the break released forward with three games to late for his team and still the fire is out to one for the summer side different. in england top men have joined chelsea and newcastle in third place in the premier league that's after beating their cross-town rivals queens park rangers goes to one brace from gareth bale and made a contribution to the win. about managed to score in his consecutive game of the championship a consolation goal for the visitors again there from cuba asked dr j.

for choice the triumph at white hart lane extending scuzz unbeaten run through seven games with six wins by man. now red bull driver suppressed has won the inaugural formula one grand prix prior to the race there was a minute's silence for tell him no to be rather marco sim and charlie who died in a crash last week during the malaysian grand prix then the race began where the german pole sitter left from start to gradually increasing his advantage over the trestle to never look back but finished eight point four seconds ahead of the byron johnson bottom ferrari's fernando alonso came home a distant third lost almost twenty five seconds to the where another red bulls not but there was fourth while there knows that other patrol finished outside the points the eleventh after the race the winner had mixed emotions. the one hand i'm very very happy with the first grand prix in india and i'm very proud to be the

first winner and i think we can be as a team but on the other hand looking back at last weekend we lost two of our mates . yeah i didn't know them well then but what was really was a big it was a big name in motor sport i got to know this year marcos immaturely and obviously our thoughts are with them. but a bit of a has won the end of season double to a championship event in a sun bowl following a three cent picture of it a result of brother was in the final the twenty one year old chad to open a seven five with her own interests twenty two songs back in the second to win it six four forcing a decider the third set completely belong to create a record of at six three so the czech player remained unbeaten of the tournament and lifted the full of that victory sending rising to number two in the world rankings. russian athletes have never won an olympic medal in the triathlon

a sport introduced to the more than games in sydney back in two thousand and bronze medal is another fishel target set for the men's team for london times are tough and the course of one man has steadily proving he's got the pedigree to reach that goal. this is oversold this season was very successful for me i reached the podium three times at the world series i want to stage of the european cup and the championship of russia i think that's a decent result unfortunately because of cramp i was unable to win a medal at the finals of the world series. alexander bre hundred corpses one of russia's two triathletes were currently in the world's top ten there are hopefuls to win an olympic gold your place in london one called the latest major success was in august when he won silver at the world series stage in london which earned him an olympic ticket britta once it's well yeah but i usually come up short in the

running portion of the event i know i'm strong in it but i have to learn how to relax and spread out my strength even leave over all three disciplines and that happens my results will also improve despised edition in a commendable second place in london behind the english champion alistair brownlee and in front of his brother jonathan brownlee alexander and the rest of the russian see and know that it's the olympic performance which will matter most at the end of the day as they continue helping each other to become stronger athlete that would result. my teammate to meet three who's also in the world's top ten constantly pushes me to train harder and i'm sure it's reciprocal on his side plus we both feel pressure from foreign athletes who are surely not idle why we're training. at the moment of there are eight russian triathletes among the world's top fifty which is a far cry from only one person in that ranking just five years ago three is the maximum

number of olympic licenses that immense team can get briefed on call and polanski the obvious takers of the first two tickets however there are at least six more quite capable athletes competing for the remaining tickets to the games where the russians hold or at least one piece of silverware oh yes just a little of course there is a medal plan after all sports authorities are investing quite a lot into our preparation process and they would like to know what they mean for london for our goal is at least a bronze olympic medal from our man and i think it could be either polanski or proof and call of what one does do happen especially in triathlon and we could see both of our athletes on the podium. and xander behind call is in relaxation mode at the moment recuperating after a tough but successful season however his and the rest of his teammates lives are about to change as they enter the final preparation phase for london next year

ramon koester of r.t. moscow. and file a gulf where rory mcilroy has won the inaugural shanghai last that's after their soap and champ and bates american anthony came in a sudden death playoff but first a west with a shot of the day the world number to head it on the two hundred three up past three twelve how with a how in hell but that great end to splay didn't help westbrook much less eventually finished fifth of nylons had started the day with it for a short lead but gave it up and then came from a slow down on the back nine to finish level with cain at eighteen seventeen forcing the play off with michael ross inches from the cup kinnear had to make his part to force another player but missed and had to tap in for a bow kate. it was a costly mistake and not. to win the tournament and the top. prize money. i haven't won enough in my four years as

a pro i feel as if i could have done a lot more but. you know today was great for me you know i was under pressure on the back nine and you know i was as well behind before to go on you know it to be to be able to win from that position you know there's not a lot of satisfaction. ok that's. for the moment more from around the globe. say whether it's next by. those who are fascinated with history. to those who have a sweet tooth. because those who can't live without the sky. and

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