i want to live here in moscow good to have you with this is our top stories now in the u.s. security contractor blackwater has undergone another rebranding implants returned to iraq among other companies hoping to cash in on the country's uncertain future after american troops withdraw. blackwater was previously banned from iraq of allegations of killing civilians. in the birthplace of libya's rebellion reaches boiling point again tens of thousands of people in benghazi been off in the streets for three days now testing against the new government and the secrecy surrounding

its policies. now the russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid to kosovo serbs has been stuck at the border for over twenty four hours now to trucks with the central supplies were stopped by police and the law says is a clear sign of exceeding its authority in the region. counts down to the withdrawal of all of its troops from iraq within weeks we talk to one of the original architects of the invasion that's next week here on. we were sitting down with one of the most controversial figures in the us politics he was existent the secretary of defense under president reagan he was chairman of the defense policy board and a george w. bush and man who is seen by many as one of the chief architects of the war in iraq richard perle mr perle thank you very much for joining us what do you think washington's plans are with regard to iraq could we see another case for war being

built against iran will the united states now is hoping that iran will see the light. its nuclear weapons program but whether in the end we you or someone else decides that force is necessary to stop the nuclear weapons program i can't say i think we are at the moment pursuing diplomatic means economic sanctions. and the government hopes that that will succeed i'm rather doubtful that will succeed you're speculating on intentions as as it as it happened in iraq i mean the international atomic energy agency report said that iran might have the technology to build a nuclear an atomic weapon if it wants to but it's a long way to actually accusing a country of building a nuclear weapon isn't it well i'm willing to accuse iran of building nuclear

weapons i don't think there's any question about it they're building missiles that only make sense if they carry nuclear warheads they are paid an enormous cost internationally by insisting enriching nuclear material which will give them the opportunity to produce weapons grade material for atomic bombs or hydrogen bombs we now have from the i.a.e.a. a detailed account from a scientist who was in. all of the program and it leaves no question as to what they're doing i don't know why anyone has any doubts about what they're doing well the thing is the war in iraq has pretty much undermine the credibility of the us when it comes to starting wars and justifying wars and you were one of the key one of the chief architects of the iraq war and the allegation that many are making is that you are. including by members of the bush administration is that you were

looking for any kind of thing in intelligence to justify an invasion no it's not true we were looking for intelligence would shed some light. on some important questions like does the weapons of mass destruction is he in contact with terrorists what are the risks involved in revealing him in place after nine eleven when we discovered that we could be terribly vulnerable but the the belief that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destructions was not based on any one intelligence informant it was mostly based on the fact that we knew a lot about things that saddam had acquired for example the chemicals that you would need to put together but again it's the same with iran you are making assumptions that they have the material they have the technology and therefore they have the weapons well what are you suggesting that we stop trying to figure out

whether iran has nuclear weapons because there were intelligence errors with respect to iraq and were not or states dismantle its intelligence organizations but who of course not they're going to listen to you say you acknowledge yet do you acknowledge that the case for war in iraq in two thousand and three was a mistake you know what i. acknowledge is that. some. some of the ideas that they behind it particularly the idea that saddam had weapons of mass destruction were wrong he didn't have weapons of mass destruction and we believe he did but the argument for removing saddam did not depend on the specifics of whether he had weapons of mass destruction or not was an element but it wasn't the whole story by any means because he'd have weapons of mass destruction in the past and there was no reason to believe he couldn't get them again in the future he just

didn't have the myth the moment that the cia believed he did could never understand . if the administration really believed that saddam had weapons of mass destruction they wouldn't have attacked iraq i mean what if the guy pushed the button right it's simple logic that suggest that they'd ministration knew that he had nothing that's why they went for it it's not. that's just not true and it's not logical live. we would leave it be too dangerous to attack if we actually had a well we believe that he had chemical and biological weapons and we took enormous precautions to deal with that so that every american who went into iraq was equipped to deal with a chemical weapons attack which we expected to happen and it didn't happen why doesn't anybody attack north korea i mean they they have

a bomb why doesn't anybody attack north korea well because everybody knows they have the bombs way right where we we don't attack everyone who has a nuclear weapon that's. that's clear i think there's a pretty good case for trying to change the regime. in north korea. i don't think you could do that by bombing north korea. but if what you're suggesting is that once a country has a nuclear weapon no one will attack it out of a fear that it will use its nuclear weapon there is an element of truth in that but in the case of north korea the situation between north and south korea is such that even if north korea didn't have a nuclear weapon they have an inability to inflict terrible damage on the capital of south korea because they have thousands of artillery pieces within range of

seoul and that is a very powerful deterrent against taking action do you still believe it was the right decision to go to to invade iraq i think the decision was based on what we knew at the time and based on what we knew at the time it was the right decision i don't believe that it was carried out very effectively and that's the tragedy of instead of turning things over to the iraqis more or less immediately we got involved in an occupation and occupations are never popular and the fact that we were an occupying power recognized as such but he noted nations by the way was very important in the development of the insurgency against the occupation i think it would have been a different situation the u.s. went from you know it was weapons of mass destruction and ties with terrorism and

then it became all about democracy the idea that the u.s. has to in far in force democracy wherever it can i believe that that's the idea that you share no it's not but you were you know you really are saying that we should encourage in a sort of an audible layer of military means. not like in iraq no iraq we went into iraq not to establish a democracy we went into iraq because the administration believed that saddam hussein's iraq was a threat to the united states why didn't the us just get out of iraq as soon as they found out that there is nothing there what they should have done. you have to have to ask george bush why he didn't do that do you think iraq's vast oil reserves had nothing to do with the decision to go to iraq i don't believe that. we went into iraq because iraq has a world with that's the question iraq has oil to be sure and if we need oil from

iraq we'll buy it we don't seize other people's oil fields and send the oil back to the united states we buy oil we import roughly half of our oil so what you're saying you couldn't afford having said on who's saying getting rich and powerful considering to hated america it wasn't just rich and powerful it's a question of what behavior one could anticipate and he had invaded kuwait as we know he had invaded iraq as we know. nobody knew what he was going to do next there has been a number of surveys that show that america has never been as hated in the muslim world as it is now where is this coming from and how should the u.s. address this well i don't know. what we can do affectively to counter that i mean we're not alone in that the united kingdom is hated in the muslim world rush's hated in the muslim world you're saying russia is hated in the muslim world

as much as they can wes's well i don't know who is hated more i know but i know that a lot of the the people who would wish to inflict injury on the united states would also wish to inflict injury on russia as as we've seen with some acts of violence in the in russia if we are hated and part of the explanation for that is that we are resisting. their. messianic belief in. in the superiority of islam that's just too bad thanks for saying the u.s. also has a messianic belief or faith superiority over other countries i wouldn't use the word messianic but. we're proud of what we've accomplished if you're self defense makes people angry or makes you hate are you right to defend yourself i have to say we are right to defend ourselves he even if one of the consequences

will seem time or terror even if some people side become terrorists because they don't like the fact that we've defended ourselves what's the alternative seems to be a vicious circle well it's it's not a pleasant thing what do you do not defend yourself. so well if i defend myself there cannot defend against a country that never attacked the u.s. i mean i mean iraq defending yourself against a presumption of a potential attack that's what we're talking about it wasn't an immediate danger that the u.s. was confronting in iraq i was watching a documentary about you when i was getting ready for this interview and i remember this mother of an american soldier who died in iraq and she was crying and shouting at you you are and man of mass destruction how do you deal with situations like that you must have come across scenes like that where you often in the past very unpleasant to what can you do understand the mother's grief.

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a clear sign of the exceeding its authority in the region. is our top stories in full with me build on is only fifteen minutes away now though it's time for sports with kate. thank you for joining me for the what is a nice fourth round up of the top story. top bottles what about if we need a big victory down the leg both sides able to win as the match is to decide the last thirty two in the right to lead get underway. while the first step is the sun just as she was great so we want to do such a thing people finally get. giants boss alone. and new coach new faces russia's ice hockey coach is in it to lobby aims to

maintain his own beat and start with a new team like a euro hockey tour. let's kick off with footballers luck out of moscow are targeting a big victory a belgian side and elect their would see the russian team pick their opponents and win group in the europa league well thirty seven year old midfielder dimitri in the skull is loved only absentee for the russian side now a fortnight into their three month winter break both sides have already qualified while leaders and elect are aiming to finish the group with a perfect record and are the only team to have won all their matches so far but they've lost their last two league games and lotto can't win the group if they had better the earlier to know their fate they suffered to land elect in moscow and they would then avoid being drawn in the knockout round against clubs such as managed to city and manchester united to drop into the competition from the champions league. while it would in turn four of them are also looking to book

their place in the round of thirty two multan yawls men also have their destiny. twenty ten finalists just need to win by any scoreline at home to group case bottom started denser to get through to the knockout stages and whether or not taking anything for granted. the. the best campaign but it's called it to her devotee him so that's why we have to be a total game and. i'm sure we're going to be there tomorrow we're going to be on the top of the game and. get three points but before what they can do but at the same time on paper we have a side and we should win tomorrow and all the second harvest just under way in the six early kick offs coast leaders state to decide first and second group they were slip up by the turkish side put allowed them here have to go through if they thrash must really tell of a well improved the sporting lisbon have already qualified as winners but could be joined by visitors that see if the italian side get

a better result in second place past louis and zero eight while mega rich perry signs him out host in group f. winners athletic bilbao are also meeting to do better in seconds i saw back in bratislava that to secure their place in the knockout stage. while over in japan brazil's teenage strike on a man has moved one step closer to his dream of playing against barcelona after his sometimes side breezed into the final of the fi for club world cup a nineteen year old scored the idea in their three one win over local champions passion rubber soul and some nifty footwork from him build up and strike however more just a relative veteran at thirty one almost at its name most effort with a beauty of his own just one from his later. well the stock i gave the potus and ran a reason to celebrate soon after the interval to warm but this was not enough and then i missed the so and also next year completed the rant for santos with yet

another crack at the quoting a quasi free kick just after the hour sometimes when we are the boss or qatari side our side in the final after they buy the other semifinal on thursday. from each of us that is going to session doesn't amount to result and we'll need to do an even better job in the final bus alone or other one team who are really good at possession i don't think any other team can beat them in these aspect but what's important is that we really made our chances count today. well meanwhile european champions barcelona have been put through their paces by camp coach pep guardiola in your home or the city where they let the title slip through their fingers back in two thousand and six losing one nil late on to brazilian side international home i made amends two years later by capturing the trophy in abu dabi would like the chance of winning the end of year tournament in the place where they stumbled five years ago both motivation and moment and seem to be on their side as possibly dutch

while as well madrid three one at the bell about last saturday the top of the league and they want to keep up that winning form in japan. i believe is the past so now we are focused on a percent. and tomorrow we are going to talk. with the players how is the level and certainly in the prepares business possible to to to arrive to achieve the final. well bass is about as out sad to go into the tie as massive underdogs but they have still been talking up their chances at the yokohama international stadium a year ago and coach paul gave a start the urged his chargers to give boston a tough time in the hunt for by far the biggest ever scalp and they've already sort of reputations for surprises like upsetting south korean side john cook in a penalty shootout last month asian champions league final. while in the meantime north american champions monterrey gained the upper hand over to new zealand side esperance in the top of the fifth place after

a lackluster half an hour after the club finally broke the deadlock for jane but the strikers joy a short notice which way all square just eight minutes later and delivering the unmarked iran mere time equaliser now a very saying they took the lead other than inglis nodding in a corner right before the break two one as bronze proved especially vulnerable to the aerial ball is another header just off the restart three want to become the calf champions resumes zavala and should not move. however esperance was thrown a lifeline midway through the second half colored noel a chilly converting them penalty spot but they failed to gain any momentum in three two to monterey was how it finished. off now in england's luke donald has been named the p.g.a. tour's player of the year after finishing the season at the top of the money list in both america and europe the thirty four year old seal the double by finishing

third at the dubai world championship and is the first briton to win a place called since it stands in a two ninety one twenty six tournament so far this season danica's missed twice and recorded twenty top ten finishes the only other european to win the award was allen's parekh harrington in two thousand and eight. a change of sport now and the russian women's handball team have relinquished their world crowd after going out to france by a two point margin in the quarter finals in brazil but it was a tight battle in sao paolo as the french sought to avenge their final defeat by russia two years ago to rob them barely put in a blur in front twelve minutes in and never gave up that lead despite her zero eight goalkeeper and say take a side you can see here. abouts with less than ten minutes to go because it's over but russia within

a go. however the dream of a fight back stopped that gruden mehndi netted france's last in the dying seconds twenty five twenty three as the final score. from two don't follow it as the french celebrated in two best semifinal all russia well i don't want to aspect but still having to book a spot in next summer's olympics in london. two i saw in our new russian coaches in a two lobby adin off is hoping to build on his unbeaten start with victory in the home leg of the euro hockey tour to china one cup and he has to do it with a few new faces constantly put up at the polls. russia confidently won the first stop of the euro hockey tour within you had coach behind the bench junior to live. at the courier cup in finland the red machine preserved and beaten record in all three majors of the four nation torment and top the overall standings of the tour ahead of the home of and then gets underway on thursday and the so far and beaten

head coach decided to keep faith with most of the players who'd helped leafed that carlo trophy. there are slight changes than in team however i'm satisfied with the way we played in finland and i want to see displays in home i want to add some fresh blood and rest some experienced players and one of those players who's taking a break is be happy surprisingly long term captain alex he might ours or he's likely to be replaced by alexander at all of who was the top scorer in helsinki while among the new faces on the road is new to the of who has returned once again from the n.h.l. and now where is the jersey of moscow region side outlined the twenty seven year old forward hasn't been called up since the world cup in two thousand and nine where russia to gold. i'm glad to be back it's a great responsibility to play for the nation and i'm still a little bit nervous about it i don't like what i had to start of the season it was

hard for jared to have to find his pace but now he understands that we want to play and he's good both in defense and attack if he gets playing time he'll prove he's worthy of the national team there are six players who will be making their home debut on the u.s. hockey tour but with a feisty radulov at the helm and the solid concerning but all in between the pipes russia can be confident at both ends of the ring and anything but victory will be considered a failure we've got a great atmosphere in the dressing room everyone's preparing hard for the event will play as solid in defense as we did in finland but we will try to score more goals then moscow stop on the euro hockey route has always been a significant event for the russian fans and the only problem is buying tickets for the matches as they are already sold out at the mega sports arena complain about out of. staying with ice hockey and also a senators for a lot of has agreed to join tesco moscow for the third time so the end of

a catch all season there were high hopes for the twenty one year old who was drafted number six by the one egg shells columbus blue jackets in two thousand. and six goals in forty four appearances in north america a lot of fans can return to the u.s. for a catch all season finishes but one that tesco will be looking forward to the goals with an argument and to seal a play off place. that's all the sports news was wednesday i think.

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