considering a palestinian bid for membership in the us has a valid cut funding for unesco if the palestinians are admitted currently the palestinians only have observe a start as a us ago however however it's worth noting that no one at unesco has the power of veto. power as u.s. troops prepare to withdraw from iraq in december they leave behind a campaign that's cost the american taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars and next we talk to a middle east expert who says the u.s. is wasting time and money trying to build democracy in the region. we're sitting down with peter van buren the 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 stuff 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 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. it 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 in the war effort the more i was a fraud 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 peoples so that was like a systematic squandering of resources absolutely the squandering of resources occurred in 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 and were 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 slow work of development that really is necessary if you're serious about rebuilding a country i want to read something to him really serious some use irate the

government watchdogs who've raised the alarm about billions of dollars of warzone waste and fraud are falling silent or are missing in action this new. 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 now this watchdog 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 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 except what's already been published until two thousand and thirty one so the things that the committee on wartime contracting uncovered 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 i'm going to be a lot older than i am now but it's shameful shameful that we will not be able to see that information why aren't they allowed to publish that before they eat official version is that there may be classified information in some of their or. 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 doesn't matter on what grounds will end if they're true or false they proved 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 sent 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 worry we then changed it to the new medium which is all we got rid of saddam he was a terrible man who brought freedom to iraq. saddam was not a nice guy i'm not here to defend him no one could possibly defend his actions however. we killed over one hundred thousand iraqi citizens some of them were

killed or rectally 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 iraq has 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 is like a raw material of failure or do you really see it as such as a defeat absolutely i actually title the title of the book actually includes the the catchphrase i helped lose this war and i accept my responsibility for not doing better than i should have just about a very most americans really don't understand why their government continue spending so much money in iraq they were told about the withdrawals by next year and now they hear that washington is maneuvering to 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 but i want benefits from it so one does not mean that 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 it's actually 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 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 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 military in order to sell american weapons that's not a secret to rock in any way whatsoever 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 to 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 indebting itself to the united states for years to come something seems wrong there now i understand what the state department wants you fired but thank you very much for the cent of you thank you very much i.

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billion people now calling the earth scientists worried that. cast their eyes to a new world where humans can suffer when you believe mars provides the best. those are the headlines here and now there is the sports. hello there welcome to school subjects or not to thanks for joining us today so let's take a quick look at what's making this sporting headlines around the globe this hour. moving on up to now more scholarly probe since the rubble smalltalk and the commodity into sports and the russian family. centric same sort of formula one champion sebastian vettel storms to victory at the inaugural indian grand prix and leading from start to finish in new delhi. and

final would catch up with washington tennis star there's no one who views the next weekend's davis cup decider with a check. now so football legend his first win in three games has seen them rise to third place in the russian premier league the blue and white sing off. in the first of sunday's two clashes. sentient reffing up victory in the opening in siberia that have been dismissed honest making the difference that. saying things going with a free kick twenty eight minutes. before kevin koe ronnie's showed his class fully funding the space and the back of the net six minutes from the break and that spot and anonymous final regular season national spotlight the next weekend will now decide the finishes. well in the last match of the game week to tonight

chris a better word too good for esoteric and some are of the house taking the lead until the two minutes go on the clock the direct running of my research would result in the game being tied at one zero after thirty six minutes but the second half would belong to. the main regaining the league. then it's our time to one the final score that truly. i with only one game week to play russia's longest football season in history is now on the verge of its second phase of competition where the top eight will continue their pursuit of while they bought some half prepared to fight for their places in the premier league for most it's a start. and the come together with christian and robin will be added. and. to compound the luck of the first eight this group will determine not only the winners of the all the european cups participants for russia. and free europa

league sports are up for grabs the team spoke. about some of the points taint during the first part of the book but. the same system will be applied to the relegation group competition the only difference is that the likes of. ross stalked eric and other sports will struggle for the right to stay in russia's top football division at the end of the last two teams will go down magically the two sides above them will have to father told. the third and fourth placed teams of division two. over to the english game now where top them have joined chelsea and newcastle in place in the premier league that spurs have london rivals queens park rangers on sunday the

praise from gareth bale and of precise strike from. the game for joy for floyd rangers but it was the home side who dominated at white hart lane and now able to boast this record of six wins from seven games. continues later on. monday with newcastle aiming to take control of that position from spurs the neckties away to meet table stokely console and leaders mates to city are the only unbeaten side so far this season. it's business as usual on formula one track the man already crowned champion this season sebastian vettel winning the inaugural indian grand prix in new delhi prior to the race there was a minute's silence for italian moto g.p. rider marco simone charlie who died in a crash last week in malaysia to the action itself now where that so who started from. gradually increase his advantage over the trace impact and to never look back

on eventually finishing eight point four seconds ahead of mcclaren justin fox and ferrari's fernando alonso was a distant third almost twenty five seconds behind where red bull team mate mark webber was fourth after the race the double world champion took time to remember some neutral and down well done and to cast off tragically died a week before the attack. on the one hand i'm very very happy as 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 dan wheldon but obviously he was a big it was a big name in motorsport i got to know this year marco simoncelli and obviously our thoughts are with them. tennis now are particular to has won the end of season double to championships and a symbol following

a three set victory over victoria azarenka a twenty one year old czech edging it open a seven five but a twenty two year old by the russian opponent struck in the second to take a six four and force a decider the third set there was to belong to wimbledon champ and wrapping up the tournament six preschool i i also. sure on twitter will end the season drain take the higher number two in the worlds of you. so critter will now lead the czech republic team in their third cup final against russia next we can various know a finding out first hand in istanbul what bit of a can do on the court as she lost to the wimbledon champion in straight sets in the group stages r.t. caught up with the russian head of moscow's massive showdown. when it comes to the . emotions they're special and you could never experience that when you play

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

always support each other and we always. have been able to reach a point. you know i think people look at my season and i think they have a. wrong perception because. two grand slam finals last year but this year was a very consistent here for me and players that i lost in the grand slams they. really well throughout the season i really have bad matches throughout the whole season the first or second round. when deep into the tournament so i had a very consistent year no matter what and i think pretty satisfied about it of course i wanted to beat father and of course i wanted to reach the grand slam final but it's something i'm working on my game every single day i'm trying to improve.

you know hopefully. four minutes then fifty one seconds the time john thomas dold spent dressing up the status of the tallest in the city hall shaming in vietnam the texaco six to eight floor plan the show time was that the new for the inaugural surgical run the twenty seven year old took the lead straight away and showed his experience and skill as he quickly built a wide gap between himself and his nearest rival. when it climbed to six seconds faster than up. but one thing is that every hour is really if you can read in the lobby one of your. knowing why not just because you know that you're in the distance or you would really. deserve it if you can see. if you think the race is the easy because maybe

it's not like you go on. i think you both feel different if you. are going to very very small. in the women's event it was valentyn a. top bonus she was the first to cross the line in six minutes and nineteen seconds melissa moon of new zealand finished fifteen seconds behind her both penalty and doldrums save the fifteen hundred us dollars for their victory. ok up to date no more sports news from around the globe. weathers axed by. bringing you the latest in science and technology from the realms of. the future

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unesco admits palestine was a member of the first time the palestinians have achieved full membership of a u.n. agency. foreign backed syria's president the campaign against his regime is being funded from abroad and warns of the west not to mess with. clash of the russian tycoon two of the world's wealthiest man. billion dollar disputes over london because i'm spared no money going to some. fund with seven billion people now calling vo code saw his worry the planet can cost their eyes to new worlds where humans can see. how top story in business this hour ross is all set to join the world trade organization agreeing a final report i have success and join me for a full business bill it's very shortly.