twelve thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlights syria's president bashar assad believes the seven month long on the rest of his country's been funded from abroad an interview with russian media he also warned military intervention putting the whole region and. scores of occupied protesters arrested across the u.s. in confrontations with police as authorities confiscate tents and ban people from overnight camping meanwhile foul weather hits the east coast testing activists resolve to keep the end by alive. feuding russian billionaires

boris berezovsky in the roman abramovich throw their fortunes at a high cost of battle in the u.k. court there is also the excuses of a moment of robbing him of billions of dollars something that chelsea football football club owner deny. us troops set to exit iraq by december leaving behind a campaign that so far cost u.s. taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars out next hour he talks to a man who says the u.s. is wasting its cash trying to build a false democracy in the region. we're sitting down with peter van buren a state department foreign service officer who a few years ago had it any rocky 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 of 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 valgerd 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 a 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 of 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 upon 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 of 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 peoples and there was like a systematic squandering of resources for absolutely the squandering of resources that occurred at very small levels a thousand dollars a couple thousand dollars here and there and zoomed 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 lacked a plan 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 slogan 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 news. the government watchdogs of raised the alarm about billions of dollars of war zone wasting fraud

are falling siling or are missing in action this new site item is actually about the commission and wartime contracting and the charge that they were working under it has expired and has not been a reunion so 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 now this what could be out of business are you surprised who might be interested in it i'm actually ashamed that the commission i work time 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 the promise. and therefore not controlled by that 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 that's already been published until two thousand and thirty one so the things that the committee on wartime contracting uncover the incredible amounts of waste fraud and mismanagement that they documented in the limited public documents that they did 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 i'm 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 are allowed to publish that before the 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 and doesn't matter on what grounds we'll end it there 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 what is the reality on the ground as you saw it first of all i don't think you can dismiss so casually because it's that certain american 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 worry we then changed it to the new medium which is all we got rid of saddam was a terrible man and brought freedom to 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 them were

killed or wrecked we 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 heat.

actually they're talking about whether or not it was immoral to invade iraq a but not quite about defeat and what were you writing in this book it's like a raw material of failure you really see it such as a defeat absolutely i actually tell you that i will work actually includes the other countries 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 don't understand why their government continues spending so much money in iraq they were told about the list qualls by next year and now they hear that washington is maneuvering can stay there be yond 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 thing you do is stop digging does apply. the united states has

said let someone benefits from it so what does not mean you're right if you go 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 is 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 that iraq is planning to buy a lot of weapons from the united states a wrap he was 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 go into a state department pushes those contracts oh 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 to be correct in any way whatsoever a foreign military sales represent a significant duty of the military in conjunction with state or 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 in getting itself to the united states for years to come something seems wrong there now i understand what and i stated part and once you're fired but thank you very much for that cent of you thank you very much .

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see. serious press. charlotte believes the seventh month long under arrest in this country has been funded from abroad it interview to russian media he also warned military intervention could engulf the entire region. scores of occupy protesters across the u.s. in confrontations with police as authorities confiscate tens and then people from camping overnight meanwhile whether it's the east coast testing out his determination to keep the anti-corporate might go a. feuding russian billionaires boris berezovsky in rome on our brokerage throw their fortunes in a high cost battle in the u.k. court there is also he accuses automobiles of robbing him of billions of dollars something to chelsea football club owner tonight. you know neils up next with all

the latest in the world of sports and we were talking earlier about rory mcilroy but there was another young man making headlines yesterday who wasn't there exactly right i tell you what i've never felt as old as eighty this week because as you say remarked right twenty two years of age he's just won the biggest golf tournaments in the world in terms of money nonis just asking people as well nina indian grand prix he's only twenty four it's all going on for the youngsters more on that map in just a second. if you with us this is sports day we have got plenty ahead this hour including these stories in peru. moving on up to the moscow leap frogged city rival sports lock unlock a motif into third spots in the russian for a. new truck seen story f one champion sebastian vettel storms

to victory at the inaugural indian grand prix leading from start to finish in new delhi. on final countdown we catch up with russian top ten tennis star bureau has been real but who's shares her views on the next weekend's davis cup decider with first timers the czech republic. but we start with couple words schools first win in three games seen them rise to third place in the russian premier league the blue and white seeing off bottom dwellers f.c. in the first of sunday's two clashes the visitors essentially wrapping up victory in the opening inside bierria per former bun this league of stars making that difference is a very similar pitch getting things going with a sublime free kick twenty eight minutes in before kevin karami showed his class coolly finding the space to finish to the back of the net six minutes from the break to know the. final regular season plus with spartak moscow next

weekend will now decide to finish this through. in the last march of game week twenty nine. for a goal too good for f.c. cherokee in summer the host taking the lead through anton barber with half an hour on the clock their direct running out in the red sea although would result in the game being tied one one after thirty six minutes but the second half would belong to korea pummel the man regaining the lead for his teammate minutes after time to on the final score to try. over to the english game or tottenham join chelsea and newcastle in third place in the premier league that is after spurs to care of london rivals queens park rangers on sunday after a storm of feel sandwich by rafael van der vaart strike. on this one with roy did reply for rangers but it was the home side who dominated the white hart lane charge

is now able to boast a record of six wins from seven days. the action continues later on monday with a new costly aiming to take control of the third position from spurs the magpies away to mid table still you counsel on the leaders none chester city of the only unbeaten side so far this season. the spanish primarily good table has a more familiar ring to it this monday with real madrid and barcelona besides the couch however that's only after the leaders heading into the weekend suffered their first loss of the contained little live on tape brought down to earth at us as soon as the sides free flowing chalk which had served them so well this my wife and. i'll see you do getting us a soon off the mark minutes from the break that was followed up moments later pious thought of head tennis one francisco nino eventually getting things grounded to make it to you know. the final reckoning live on t.v.

the surrendering the chance to begin with. then. it is business as usual on the formula one track a man already crying champion this season sebastian vettel winning the nor girl indian grand prix in new delhi prior to the race there was a minute's silence for italian motor g.p. rider marco simoncelli who died in a crash last weekend leisure to be action where vettel who started from pole gradually increased his advantage over the chasing pocket early on and he never let the german eventually finish an eight point four seconds ahead of her. jenson button florrie's fernando alonso was a distant third almost twenty five seconds behind the winner bettles red bull teammate mark webber was fourth after the race the double world championship a time true member said shelley weld in indy car story tragically died a week before the hit. on the one hand i'm very very happy is 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 obviously it was a peak it was a big name in motorsports i got to know this year marco simoncelli and obviously our thoughts are now the drinks all together our own rule this week the northern irish golfer claiming the biggest pay packet in the sport after a victory at the first ever shanghai masters event let's start though by taking a look at the uncharted showed that even the chinese greens were number two leader westwood hauling in one of their part three twelve brilliant effort helping west would finish fifth as well u.s. open champion michael roy began the day with a three shot lead but had to fight back from a stroke jarred to finish level with the american and thank him it that meant a playoff with michael royce ball inches from the cup was to make this city

proceedings to the next three or four but as you see it wasn't to be a costly mistake to see the least. well he would julie sink his shot to pocket a cool two million dollars not a bad weekend at all for the twenty two year old. one 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 one behind before to go on you know to be to be able to win from that position you know the pittsburgh steelers have sent out a warning to the rest of the n.f.l. after. surprise win over super bowl favorites new england bet ben roethlisberger i should say the sec thing the patriots defense to overcome tom brady and co by twenty five points to seventeen the steelers had lost all but one game to brady lead peter it's and seven contests pittsburgh deciding to go against the grain this time mike using short passes all being wrong typically new england stable and work

through this burger opening the school with a pass to a. brady no he was constantly harassed by the steelers fans of defense. but the shade on the thirty four year old drawing loose troy polamalu own power send the ball all the way by the end zone for two people see the school twenty five seventeen as i say with. the rose benefited from world series baseball champions this isn't louis cardinals being in attendance for their clash the home team stunning the new orleans saints for their first win of the season stephen jackson with a base first touchdown making ten zero the same still trailing by ten in the fourth before jory ensured intercepted drew brees taking the first six day was to belong to the rams the side wearing throwback jersey to honor the british own turf squad which won the super bowl in one thousand nine hundred nine thirty one twenty two on the score this time. tennis for petrak event of a house won the end of season w.

th championships in istanbul following a three set victory over victoria azarenka twenty one year old czech to feed her edging a tight opener seventy five but her twenty two year old pal a russian opponent stormed back in the second to make it six four on four say decider the third set though was to belong to wimbledon champion created by wrapping up the tournaments on a six troops were lined a victory also ensuring feet of it will end the season ranked career high number two there is no. you know if you develop will not leave the czech republic team in their faith cup final against russia next weekend verizon rio over finding out first hand in istanbul what you can do on the courts losing to the wimbledon champ in straight sets in the group stages but r.t. caught up with the russian head of moscow's must've shotgun. when it comes to the final you know some emotions they're special and you could never experience that when you play individual competition and definitely that burn in motion will bring

a lot of determination a lot of desire and hopefully we can create you know a great competition czech republic is very strong and very consistent they have a lot of good players they are not only good in singles but they are also good in doubles so it's going to be yeah it's going to be tough challenge but we're excited about it and we've got a lot of great players and we can easily form. teams and it is great because we've got a lot of choices at the same time you know sometimes it's tough because some players get get injured and sometimes we try to find the perfect combination between singles and doubles and trying to create you know the sometimes it's not easy because we have so many choices and we want to bring people and we want everyone to play for the team there on the spot for four players but. i think the

level of our team is very strong support each other and we're always going to do well and. just. just. you know i think people look at my season and they have a. perception of it because. grand slam finals last year this year it was a very consistent here for me in. that i lost in the grand slams they. played really well throughout the season i really have bad matches throughout the whole season i didn't lose the first or second rounds you know i've been playing deep into the tournament so i had a very consistent here and no matter what and i think pretty satisfied about it of course i will. to go beat father and of course i wanted to reach another grand slam final but it's something i'm working on i'm working on my game every single day i'm trying to improve and you know hopefully it will pay off yeah should be quite

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