because if you're just joining. top stories now on historic day for palestine which is achieved its first full membership for u.n. agency but you know faces a loss of nearly a quarter of its funding off of the u.s. valve to cut it off if the palestinians were admitted. back syria's president claims a protest campaign against his regime is being funded from abroad the west not to get involved and the head of nato has ruled out imposing a no fly zone over syria which some demonstrations in the country have been calling for. clash of the russian tycoons to the world wealthiest men and none of them of.

take their place or to speak to a london court and spend no money on the fight but it's also the accuser robbing him of five million dollars someone sent back. with seven billion people now calling home just war and the climate. their eyes to new worlds where humans could settle many believe provides the best option. for the summary of those stories once again in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime 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'll talk to a middle east expert he says the u.s. is wasting time and money trying to build democracy in the region. were sitting down with peter van buren a state department foreign service officer who a few years ago had it anyway radke 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 fate of parchman 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 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 personal 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 and give away to a few widows and that was are going to be our contribution to democracy and the war effort the more i will ride 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. but 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 slandering of resources there absolutely squandering of resources occurred at very small levels a thousand dollars a couple of thousand dollars here and there and 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 principally 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 them and here is some news i write the government watchdogs of raise the alarm about billions of dollars of war zone waste and fraud are falling silent or are missing in action this new site item is actually about the commission and wartime contracting and that charge that they were working under it has expired and has not been renewed as 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 stock 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 uncover of 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 would not be able to see that information why aren't they 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 will end if they're true or fall if 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 of certain american war in iraq we entered the iraq war under the guise of looking for weapons of mass destruction where 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 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 u.s. in a 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 and 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 feel in washington. and that is that is that he. actually they're talking about whether or not it was immoral to invade iraq of but not quite about the feet and what were you writing in this book it's like the 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 catch phrase 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 going to stand by 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 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 became used to spend so much money in iraq i think one of the old sayings when you're in a hole the first thing need do is stop digging those apply. united states has said that one 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 e.u. i think it's actually going to you know i don't think any of the money is going to be 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 sixteen's they already have bought and will continue to buy and one change from us all of these are very expensive toys and more importantly come with a 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 know in the state department bush has 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 singletary in order to sell american weapons that's not a secret to iraq in any way whatsoever foreign military sales represent a significant duty of the military in conjunction with the state department for seat what is difficult of all to rock is that this is a country that doesn't seem in a position from afford these types of threats 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's seems wrong there now i understand why the state department

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the. top stories this hour here on t.v. an historic day for palestine which is achieved its first full membership to a u.n. agency but unesco now faces the loss of nearly a quarter of its funding after the u.s. fell to cut it off if the palestinians were admitted. before in fact syria's president claims the protest campaign against his regime is being funded from abroad and warns the west not to get involved in the hand of nature has ruled out imposing a no fly zone over syria which some demonstrations in the country have been calling for him clash of the russian tycoons to the world's wealthiest man roman abramovich bodies but is also key take advantage of the streets to not been caught and spend no money on the fight it was also he accuses abramovich of robbing him up crying the whole million dollars a month sit back. home with seven million people now calling the earth home

sons is worth trying to call him cold call summarized a new worlds where humans could settle many believe laws provides the best option for a puppy that cope with more and those stories in more detail for less than fifty minutes from now the mean time sport is next with the mitchell. hello there welcome to this sport obviously enough thanks for joining us this hour first let's take a quick look at what's making this sporting headlines around the globe. it took eight teams of the russian premier league have been determined what's up next for those who did well during the longest of a season and those who didn't. save store if only one champion sebastian sole stalls to victory in all girl team doing

a grand prix leading from start to finish in new delhi. and final power down would catch up with russian top tennis star or over who shall serve use the next weekend's davis cup decide that with first time as the czech republic. so we start with football legend on the most first win in three games has seen them rise to third place in the russian premier league blue and right thing off. in the first of sunday's two clashes this is essentially wrapping up victory in the opening off in siberia a path for more than the slugger stars making the difference so there's a miss image getting things going with twenty eight minutes in the fall kevin khurana shows his prowess to an authority in this space and the back of the net six minutes from the break to nil and that's out today and deny my star no regular season presently spartak moscow next weekend will now decide who finishes third. while in the last in that show of game we trench and i create

a better word for esoteric in. taking the lead through until but bear with me with thirty minutes on the clock direct running of memory so there would result in the game being tied one after thirty six minutes but the second half will belong to clearly a part of the article if the man regaining the link for fifteen minutes to cough. time to run the final score to create. with only one game week to play russia the longest football season in history is now on the verge of entering its second phase competition where the top aides will continue their pursuit of silverware while the guts of hearts prepared to fight for their places in next year's premier league form or through art replace cardinal must stop and look at the two together with recent champions and rubin all the added pressure and to compound the luck illegal of the first eight this group will determine not only the winners of the year but also that all the european class participants for russia the champions league and

free europa league sports. teams will compete for home and away basis for the points change during the first part of the season but. the same system will be applied to the relegation group competition the only difference is that the likes of stuart terry and other reports from sports will struggle for the right to stay in russia's top football division at the end of the lease two teams will go down to magically the sides above them will have to fight it out with a third and fourth placed teams of division three. over to the english game where tottenham have joined chelsea and newcastle in third place in the premier league that's after s'posed to london rivals queens park rangers on sunday a brace from go and a precise strike from brought down to seal the game for tottenham job or through it did replied rangers but it was the home side who dominated at white hart lane

correct men now able to boast a record of six wins from seven games. the action continues late on monday with newcastle aiming to take control of that position from the next prize away from the table to stoke newcastle and leaders in manchester city are the only unbeaten side . so far this season. it's business as usual on the film 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 simoncelli and died in a crash last week in malaysia to the action itself now where that soul will started from gradually increase his advantage over the traces back there alone and to never look back on eventually finishing eight point four seconds ahead of mclaren jenson button there are as fernando alonso was a distant third almost twenty five seconds behind the winner but also red bull

teammate mark webber was fourth after the race the double world champion took time to remember symmetry and world and indy car star tragically died a week before the. only 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 world and obviously it was a big it was a big name in motor sport i got to know this year marco simoncelli and obviously our thoughts are with them. tennis now what better quit of us has worn the end of season doublecheck championships in a symbol following a three said victor over victoria twenty one year old checked into the edging a tight open a seven five but twenty two year old the russian opponent stormed back in the

second to take a six for forty decider the third set though was to belong to wimbledon champ and it's about up the tournament on a six preschool the victory all centering fit and this isn't a career high number two and overworked. it's. so critter will now lead the czech republic team in their third cup final against russia next weekend very scenario of finding out first hand in istanbul what committer can do on the court as she lost to the wimbledon champion in straight sets in the group stages r.t. caught up with a russian head of moscow's mess of showdown. when it comes down to the fact. that some 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 and 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 in singles but they are also good in their goals 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 some first car teams or maybe even three teams and it is great because we got a lot of choices at the same time you know sometimes it's tough because some some players get injured and sometimes we try to find the perfect combination between singles and doubles and trying to create. the best team and 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 but there are only spots for four players but no matter what the level of our team is very strong and i'm always support each other we're always going to do well at the. heart of two thousand.

i think people look at my season and i think they have a. wrong perception of it because. finals last year this year was a very consistent year for me and those players that i lost in the grand slams they you know really well throughout the season i didn't really have bad matches throughout the whole season i didn't lose the first or second rounds i've been playing deep into the tournament so i had a very consistent year no matter what and i think i'm pretty satisfied about it of course i wanted to go a bit farther and of course i wanted to reach another 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 and fifty one seconds to time john thomas dold spent racing up the stairs of the tallest tower in the city of port chiming in

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