your headlines for you now the u.s. versus that unesco washington curbs funding to the u.n. cultural body granted an historic membership to palestine. and the f.b.i. joins the halloween celebrations by sharing its own ghost stories releasing surveillance footage starring chapman and other alleged russian spies. syria says it's ready to implement the demands of the arab league to end the crisis but only if sanctions against assad's regime. with damascus now the main capital of the arab

spring. tells us here in the hot seat who could be pushing the middle east and north africa towards the political change that discussion with the author is now. today we're talking to f one and of the author of several books among them gods of money wall street and the dearth of american century and he is also a political risk consultant so we're going to discuss several more several of the most burning our political and economic issues in the world today mr engel thank you very much for joining us to be here to start off basically a never never before has the world faced so many economic and political problems all at the same time would you say that these conflicts which we're seeing today i in terms of you're in the dollar situation and what's happening in the northern africa and in the middle east do these conflicts feed off each other or are they

somehow related or not particularly what i see in all these conflicts the decision to libya the crisis with the dollar crisis with the american economy and the conduct of american foreign policy in the in the eyes period is all part of the breakdown of the entire super power structure that was built up after going to be end of the world war two and nobody in washington wants to admit just as nobody and britain a hundred years ago wanted to admit that the british empire was in terminal decline all of this is related to the term to keep this sole superpower not only intact but to spread its influence over the rest of the planet and that. not surprisingly much of the world is not going to see that so would you say that what's happening in the middle in the middle east or northern africa right now is basically an attempt are not the behalf of the united states to keep its came up very much so the. plan was

first the analysis by george w. bush when he was president just after the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three at a g. eight meeting when it was called the greater middle east project and that project that he published a map of what they had in mind was the control and the. democratization as they call it of the entire islamic world from afghanistan pakistan down through iran syria. the persian gulf area the oil producing states there and across north africa all the way to morocco and the events of the so-called arab spring have been planned years back and the instigators of those the so-called spontaneous protests these twitter revolts in cairo and tunisia and so forth over the last months have all been. organized to sid you are seeing some of the people leaders of the

protests have been trained in the belgrade in serbia by oh poor activists financed by the u.s. state department. this thing has state department and u.s. intelligence all over it. and why why are they doing this well two things in my view one. there is vast wealth in the hands of the leading circles in the arab world vast wealth sovereign wealth funds of countries like kuwait. and other countries but also just the resources and one of the agendas is to introduce as was done in the soviet union after nine hundred ninety one with the collapse of the soviet union the agenda of i.m.f. privatization free market economy and so forth so that western banks and financial agencies and corporations could come in and take the plunder the second agenda is militarily from places such as libya or south sudan the so-called republic of south

sudan to militarize those oil sources that are directly strategic to china's future economic growth so this is all about controlling eurasia something's being abridgements he talked about it back in one thousand nine hundred seven in his famous book the grand chess game. to control the especially russia and china and any potential cohesion of the race should countries economically and politically but as a result of. this so-called arab spring what can we honestly say that the middle east and. north african countries which have come through with changes have they really become more democratic gyptian tunisian friends of mine say that it's just the opposite the economy is in far worse shape and libya had the highest living standard in all of africa before the bombing of made up the day the country is in ruins because of those by means not because of. the economy of egypt is in dire

straits the military remains in control they were in the military high command of egypt was sitting in the pentagon when the group holt's kicked off and waited for a signal from the pentagon when to return and take control of those events so all the instigators of the conflicts turned who seem to be you know the united states and maybe some of the european powers if you know look at libya will they be able to restore your morality in these countries or is it not even in their interest i don't think give a moment's thought to normality or normalization i think what their concern is especially the pentagon has its military control the next step will be on this so-called transitional national council and libya's is to have that puppet government give the legal permanent basing rights inside libya something they've never had before apart from sudan some of the things defenselessness they have nato forces in there the african is coordinating this the pentagon's africa command

which is. interestingly enough created just after china's two thousand and six africa diplomacy were forty heads of african nations were invited to beijing and the enormous deals were signed with the chinese companies for oil exploration to build hospitals give soft loans everything the i.m.f. didn't do with africa in the last thirty years we chinese began doing and it had enormous results for china i know that you have a very interesting opinion of this who is the same pace wars in ways that by the united states well you have to go back to the role in the last twenty or thirty years actually began in the eighty's with the role of the dollar as world reserve currency and china has an enormous trade surplus wal-mart is essentially an outpost of chinese manufacturing and in america today so we have three hundred million plus surplus dollars at the central bank of china masses every year what do you do with that well there's few markets big enough to invest in the supposedly big could buy

gold for their central bank reserves which they are doing by the way but the only place they can invest it as they see it right now or until very recently is either in dollars or in the euro or they've got something like three trillion dollars of u.s. dollar treasury bonds or bills as their reserves today so in effect the u.s. would not be able to finance the deficit that they're running. to wage those wars in afghanistan or wage so small as in iraq or in libya unless the chinese were buying u.s. treasury bonds so ironically the chinese are financing wars directly directed against trying to use national interest for energy security or would you say the united states is going to has any chance of resurfacing from the crisis that it's nine minutes i think right now the only way as they see if they can they can

survive and keep the dollars there instrument wall street i'm talking about is the gods of money as i call it in my book. is to find new areas of loot so the arab spring is directed against grabbing and privatizing the vast wealth of the arab oil world and the arab world generally just as the use of the i.m.f. in the former soviet union was consciously designed by wall street and by washington in order to plunder the vast resources of russia and the former soviet union and warsaw pact countries so if the dollar does not retain its superior status do you think there's any likelihood that the euro will retain it or inherit it rather well one reason that there's this difficulty with greece and these so-called euro zone or weaker economies is that this is part of a kind of a covert financial warfare between the dollar and the euro the world's reserve currency it started when the chinese started complaining publicly about the. flawed

economic policy of washington running up deficits and endangering the value of chinese treasury bonds so now. just when that it became public. suddenly there was a greek crisis and the greek crisis was put in place in two thousand and two before greece and of the eurozone none other than goldman sachs the most powerful bank in america are going to make today politically well connected in washington so. it's very clear if you follow the money trail that that. big. crisis was programmed to be detonated at command by wall street and the us treasury as well as the federal reserve in order to defend the reserve currency role of the us dollar but i don't see the european economies endangered as the us because one great difference europe still produces europe still has real industry which i believe that from going back to the beginning of our interview where you believe that there is some european countries this benefit from the situation you are an unraveling say you

really are right now like france well i was just going to say sarkozy had a meeting in march when the the whole drama in libya kicked off he invited leaders of the so-called transitional national council to paris and made them whispered sweet nothings in their ears about having control of the oil resources of eastern libya and poured money weapons the cia and the french intelligence have been pouring arms into these insurgent groups inside libya this is an armed insurrection financed by nato countries and libya it's an old peaceful twitter revolution of a bunch of kids who have a dream of american style democracy or something this is raw power grab by the french what do you predict or in your opinion what do you think will happen in the being out i mean does it mean to troops will have to pull out at some point and then what there will be. i imagine in iraq like scenario or afghanistan or what do

you have in afghanistan you have seventeen permanent u.s. military bases in afghanistan most of them air bases who are not bombing the taliban and they're preparing for a coming war and perhaps ten years with china or maybe with russia they've got a military bastion in the heart of central asia that's something that they never had to in the cold war. so i think libya's is just not for us and what role do you think russia should. be in the rent's force. i think russia given the history going back more than more than the cold war. russia can play a very stabilizing role as a as a counter force to this highly dangerous strategy of the greater middle east project for people in the west in that region russia can play a very important call blocking. someone toward events from the side of the un security council in syria i don't think trying to put it really as we do with it i'm going to pick a stronger u.n.

action site for action in syria but in more ways than that russia could play a very constructive role i think in the region to try to counter this station i would hope they do. thank you very much for your time. a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on the. street they have. to get the status of the human. right because it goes. in the song.

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headlines on r t and the u.s. the verses and unesco washington funding to the u.n. cultural thought even after it granted an historic membership to palestine. and the f.b.i. joins the halloween celebrations by sharing its own ghost story releasing surveillance footage starring another chapman another alleged russian spies. syria says it's ready to implement the demands of the arab league to end the crisis for those sanctions against assad's regime. more news to come your way at the top of the hour here on r.t. but for now the nature of the sport.

hello there this is this court. it's very good to have a company again this is so in this bulletin. champions league zinni put his take on structure at home tonight knowing victory would propel them top of group g. . capital gains. boost their title credentials this season with victory in four games in the continental luckily. the girls were kept all the stripes that made the difference in the announcement we call the first stage of the longest ever season in the russian family. so we start with football weighs in eight cent are preparing to kick off of game week four in the champions league today's match single travis bullets is men and it's a new craney outfit chuck short. the russian champions have been riding high in the

competition so far already with three more points at the same stage than when they sell previous european campaign to years ago victory over at the end of september their undoubted highlights it's on a case like of though this evening the russian international striker ruled out with an ankle injury meanwhile will travel on the back of an away win in their late is the mastic fixture against alexandria this to resample to indigenous side within a point of leaders of action gets underway eighteen forty five central european time. group or two will aim to get back on winning ways when they travel to surprise table top post of cyprus a similar one and barcelona meanwhile. supremacy on their minds when they take on and present respectively of the european giants are joint top of the standings with seven points. a gang will be out for revenge against chelsea the

belgians going down five nil last time out against the blue is plenty close in form by little cousin and when the spurs out an impact cost to replace parts no second seeds of my say is that the group that pictures. now the russian price is reporting that footballers will not be showing up to their tuesday training session the players' pockets in a club which sell red and bonuses dating back to last year a third from bottom and will have a chance to thoughts for premier league survival as the long russian season splits the top and bottom teams and eight initially no british side recently lost three nil to us in a with captain anton has a hinting that the true reason for this if it lies behind the scenes similar situation is brewing second division side of sin is not bread with and pay players threatening to boycott matches spain leave them but. over to the ice now where it

says cars hopes of a first ever case have improved somewhat muscovites beating one of the league's strongest in the east. coast in the russian capital is considered a top of now reports. this guy has won just two majors out of eight against being old when you go. in only once on home ice this time the home side produced electric start in the suit were good we discussed right in kristi's which is luckily the red and losing hand just immunity immediately help wait until his car stops corey swedish rock of double doing. what goldfinger discouraging stored for the visitors and he seemed confused on the whole slip for the interim usually comfortable to mock louise after some probable handwrite treatment from still makers had no trouble. what trying to get back into the game but it was the star who increased. their lead would have probably gone because person was the first in the rebounds of

the show of powerful slap shot to make it into the goal game with four minutes to go in the second however i mean how old managed to pull one back early in the decisive period as and on who sent it back home on the counter-attack to make it three one with four minutes later to sky regain their three goal lead balloon in past to be just one bracket and the twenty four year old banner made it four one four minutes before the final wasn't goldson releasing need why didn't treat cutting the deficit to two goals in a power play and the visitors put everything on the line into the goal for next to where it failed to get a wizened a chance is a serious cause it was just last minute was confident between the pipes short to the final score you happen to games in a row for us out so when we got the two zero lead we knew what happened the last game guided so we didn't want to happen again and. we battled hard and in the second period we really got lucky will be there because they really pressure us and

we scored the third goal in powerplay so i think that was the point for the game we came out hard came out the right way there were and were successful with. a couple shots in the start of the game or a nice to get terrible first goal and second all of this cargo and one line up and now six feet in the western conference well last season's going cup semifinal is with a look continue their relatively poor before lunch and stay thief in the same boat out of party. now brown and ray has to down as head coach of the new zealand rugby team the sixty five year old manager living on a high note after sailing his country's second while cup triumph last month against france and i had managed the all blacks for seven seasons pam stepping down from. how they are not. i've been involved in

a hundred three kids matches will break one hundred forty in total it's been a privilege to be involved with the all blacks. a real privilege norma's privilege . proud of blocked by a gun i will take. the sydney to the legacy. rugby. and that's really important it is. it's not source in that russia's first ever formula one man with telepictures of will be a lotus runner next season the driver is censored group closed by remark russian for the early circuits sessions at this season's final race in brazil jupiter champ and john will also get rides instead of stablemate going to send an ultimate arbiter of events that teens have struggled this year with patrols third place finish opening race in melbourne far and away their best result twenty seminal patro finish eleventh this. recent indian grand prix for months was even criticised by his own team for being quote uninspired. and i finally not

a single game ended goal this this week in the russian premier league as this size prepared to split into two groups of eight for the second half of the longest to master season so let's get a recap of all twenty two strikes that for the back of the net searing the penultimate round its goals a lot. ok

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