and he is also a political risk consultant so we're going to discuss several more several of the most burning out 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 that here in the dollar situation and what's happening in northern africa and in the middle east do these conflicts feed off each other are they somehow related or not particularly what i see in all these conflicts the decision to bomb libya the crisis with the dollar the crisis with the american economy and the conduct of american foreign policy in the last period. is all part of a breakdown of the entire super power structure that was built up after the b.m. of the world war two and nobody in washington wants to admit just as nobody in

britain a hundred years ago wanted to admit that the british empire was in terminal decline all of this is related to the attempt 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 too eager to see that so when you say that what's happening in the middle in the middle east or northern africa right now is basically an attempt on the behalf of the united states to keep its game up very much so the. plan was first announced by george w. bush when he was president just after the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three at a g eight meeting and it was called the greater middle east project and that project they they 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 the so-called arab spring had been planned years back and the instigators of those so-called spontaneous protests these twitter revolts in cairo and tunisia and so forth over the last months have all been. organized seducing some of the people leaders of the protests have been trained in belgrade in serbia by old 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 in 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 a big numbers and ski talked about it back in one thousand nine hundred seven in his famous book the grand chess game. and controlling especially russia and china and any potential cohesion of the eurasian countries economically and politically

but as a result of. the so-called arab spring what can we honestly say that middle east and. northern african countries which have gone 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 libya had the highest living standard in all of africa before the bombing of nato today the country is in ruins because of those bombings not because of could offer. 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 revolts kicked off and waited for a signal from the pentagon when to return and take control of those events so will the instigators of the conflicts who will turn who seem to be you know the united states and maybe some of the european powers that you know look at libya will they

be able to restore normality in these countries or is it not even in their interest i don't think they give a moment's thought to normality or normalization i think what their concern is especially the pentagon is military control the next step will be on this so-called transitional national council in libya is to have that puppet government give nato permanent basing rights inside libya something they never had before under gadhafi sudan some of the things the defense unless they have nato forces in there the african is coordinating this the pentagon's africa command which is. interesting enough created just after china's two thousand and six africa diplomacy were forty heads of african nations were invited to beijing and 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 in africa in the last thirty years the chinese began doing and that had enormous results for china i know that you have

a very interesting opinion of this who would you say pace towards that waged 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 in america today so the three hundred billion plus surplus dollars that the central bank of china masses every year what do you do with that well there's few markets big enough to invest in a 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 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 deficits that they're running. to wage those wars in afghanistan or wage those boards in iraq or in libya unless the chinese were buying u.s. treasury bonds so ironically the chinese are financing wars directly directed against chinese national interest for energy security or would you say that the united states is going to has any chance of resurfacing from the crisis that it's finding itself in right now the only way as they see it they can they can survive and keep the dollars there instrument wall street i'm talking about is the gods of money and so 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 in 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 weaker economies is that this is part of a kind of a covert financial warfare between the dollar and the euro was a 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 became public. suddenly there was a greek crisis and the greek crisis was put in place in two thousand and two before greece under the euro zone by none other than goldman sachs the most powerful bank in america arguably today politically well connected in washington so. it's very.

clear if you follow the money trail that that the greek 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 things europe still has a real industry which i believe that from going back to at the beginning of our interview we believe that there is some european countries there's benefit from the situation and having say in libya right now like france well i was just going to say sarkozy had a meeting in march when 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 of something this is raw power grab by the french what do you predict or in european what do you think will happen in the be and now i mean the nato troops will have to pull out at some point and then what will the. i imagine an iraq like scenario or afghanistan 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 during the cold war. so i think libya is destined for a similar treatment what role do you think process at play in the in the events

which are in reality right now i think russia given the history going back more than more than the cold war europe. russia can play a very stabilizing role as a as a counter force to this highly dangerous strategy of the greater middle east project of nato in the us in that region russia can play a very important role blocking. someone toward events from the side of the un security council in syria i don't think china would agree as they did with the p case to the un action aside from the action in syria but in more ways than that russia can play a very constructive role i think in the region to try to counter this destabilization i would hope they do. thank you very much for your time. and.

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this season with victory in four games in the kontinental hockey league. goals galore were capped all the strikes that made the difference in the penultimate we call the first stage of the longest season in the russian premier league. so we start with football ways you need sent it is burke have kicked off again week four in the champions league today's match seeing the china split is men entertain ukraine in georgia done it that sides are currently in action and one nil to the side with the final whistle about to be blown their nicolas longboats scored for the russian. of the. group portal and to get back to winning ways when they travel to surprise table toppers of cyprus ac milan and barcelona meanwhile will have group h. supremacy on their minds when they take on but respectively the european giants are joined top of the standings with seven points. in group big bank will be out for

revenge against chelsea the belgians going down five may last time out against the blues. informed by a little. attempt to unpack or stop place arsenal versus second seated must say is that pick of the group fixtures the gunners manager hopes to solve all their problems tonight and book their place in the perves. aside who can defend where it is very physical and discreet condom breaks or i believe. contra track suits them more than dominating the game so they've gained incontinence as well live with between the two games like we did so it should be an interesting time but for us it's an opportunity to qualify tomorrow night and of course you want to take the stand. now the russian press is reporting that civil war footballers who will

not be showing up to their tuesday training session the players' pockets and the club which owes them a salary and bonuses dating back to last year third from bottom and will have a chance to fight for premier league survival as the long russian season splits they top and bottom teams and eight the nation over its side recently lost three in a senate with captain anton has a fitting end saying that the true reason for this if it lies behind the same similar situation is brewing at second division f.c. nizhny novgorod without pay players threatening to boycott matches in the event. over to the ice now where it says cars hopes of a thirst ever catch all crown haven't proved somewhat there muscovites saying one of the lakes strongest in the east of course in the russian capital as good as any but out of now reports. this guy have won just two majors out of eight against me at all when you go ask in the cage and only once on home ice this time the home

side produced an electric start in the search for third wind discuss striking procedures which is why i mean people read and lose a hand just a minute seem a minute and you have a leader to discuss top scorer sergei shock of double doing forcing me told to swap goaltenders discouraging start for the visitors and he seemed confused and the host left for the intermission really comfortable to not only after some probable had dry treatment from still makers head coach fredricka money can make more trying to get back into the game but it was a serious guy who increased their lead with a ball boy a goal because there were some was the first on the rebound up to short of powerful slapshot to make it into the goal game with four minutes to go in the second however many told managed to pull one back early in the decisive period as and on send them back home on a counter-attack to make it three one but four minutes later to scurry again. three goal lead balloon in past to be just one braccio in the twenty four year old

defender made it four one four minutes before the final buzzer meant olds and releasing the ribeye of the intrigue cutting the deficit to two goals in a power play and the visitors put everything on the line and pulled the goalie for next to play but failed to capitalize on their chances a serious cancer was just last daniel was confident between the pipes short to the final score you have been through games in a row for that so when we got the two zero lead we knew what happened the last game they tied it so we didn't want to happen again and. we battle hardened in the second period we really got lucky will be there because they really pressure us and we scored the third goal and powerplay so i think that was the point for the game we came out the way we wanted to play there we are and were successful with. a couple shots to start the game nice to get the ball first of all and second of all where his car climbed one up and now sit fifth in the western conference well last

season's going cup semifinal and smith all continue their relatively poor before lunch and stay fief in the confined but out of forty. graham henry has stood down as head coach of the new zealand rugby team the sixty five year old manager living on a high and out sailing his country's second well cup triumph last month against france had managed all blacks for seven seasons i'm stepping down from. how they had enough. i've been involved in a three test matches with you will be extra hundred forty in total it's been a privilege to be involved with the all blacks. a real privilege norma's privilege i am very proud of what i have done i will. let it be added to the legacy of rugby. and that's very important to this team.

it's not certain that russia's first ever formula one motel a bit of will be with a lotus runner next season the driver is said to be replaced by for the only circuit sessions at this season's final race in brazil g.p. two champ will also get to ride instead of patrol stablemate going to send the penultimate up at rb event the team have struggled b.c. a with patrols third place finish of the opening race in melbourne find away their best results twenty seven year old patrol finished eleventh at the recent grand prix his performance was even criticised by his own team for being quote in spite. and fun and not a single game ended goalless this week in the russian premier league as the science prepare to split into two groups of eight for the second half of the longest season so let's get a recap of alternative strikes that found the back of the net during the penultimate round its all traditional.

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this is. just some of them. so now the latest from the champions league zenaida beats up to the nets by a single girl while in group h. but joe with a similar. so that's it for me and the sports s. for now weather is next thanks for watching us good bye.

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twenty summit. from one crisis to another the arab league reportedly persuade syria to end the violent crackdown on protesters just as u.n. investigators claim to have found a secret nuclear facility in the country. troops of the ready israel considers a ground campaign against guards are following an escalation in rocket attacks over the last week our top stories this hour. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day thousands of anticapitalist some marching in the french riviera ahead of the g. twenty summit in cannes groups of international activists are urging the leaders of the world's top economies to focus on people not finance daniel bushell is a nice where the protest is centered.