war torn syria are set to choose their new constitution potentially ending five decades of one party rule referendum comes amid ongoing violence for the opposition trying to boycott the ballot. sixteen u.s. intelligence agencies agree there is no evidence to iran is building nuclear weapons but israel increases the pressure because new threats of military strike despite calls from washington london to allow new sanctions more time to work. and the euro zone tightens its belt greece is saved from the brink of collapse he would produce the new play out cost of a massive new wave of cuts for students in spain lash out against their own lack of funding. syrians are ready themselves to vote on the future america continues to pressure the assad regime next former us presidential advisor and a veteran of american politics president cannon tells r.t. why he thinks washington should stay away from syria. i.

i'm sitting down with patrick buchanan senior adviser to presidents which makes gerald ford and ronald reagan he ran for the presidency three times he wrote many books and some of his books have really manage seeing titles his latest book is called suicide of a superpower a will america survive to twenty twenty five very pessimistic sir all first of all thank you very much for joining me thank you with regards to foreign policy you're saying one of the ways to prevent that suicide from happening is to dismantle the empire first of all what do you mean by empire or you might call it the american imperium or the american empire. the united states has military bases dating back to the cold war in europe and asia the middle east africa all over the world and we're running a deficit of ten percent of our gross national product and quite frankly we can't

afford any longer in my judgment to continue to carry this enormous burden of defending forty or fifty countries around the world and so i think we're going to have to dismantle these bases we're going to have to return back from asia come back from the middle east and south asia and i think we'll have to bring the troops home from europe you were writing and speaking out extensively about the bush era in iraq crusade under the banner of ending terror name in the world do you think that course say it is still long or the idea that we're going to end tyranny in the world is utterly utopian we never are we've had tyrants from time immemorial and what the united states should do in my judgment in its foreign policies is build a defense establishment strong enough to protect our vital interests and our vital allies and when problems arise whether it's in zimbabwe or somewhere else the people there have got to deal with their own prob. there's no doubt about it that

throughout history tyrants have a risen and seized power in one place or another and as long as they don't threaten our vital interests or threaten and kill our people the fact that they rule and or misrule certain countries is none of our business while some of bin laden successor said he supports the war against syria and al-qaeda was reportedly behind the four suicide bombings which killed scores of syrian officials and soldier seen damascus and eleven doesn't it seem strange that the us is on the same side with the whole kiting syria row it is it does indeed listen the the outside government has been has been ruthless and brutal and suppressing the uprising and the insurgency against it not as brutal as this father was tough as i was saad who slaughtered twenty thousand people in hama in one nine hundred eighty two when they

rose up and it would probably be a good thing if he departed and they had a more democratic government but your point is well taken the united states should ask itself not only what is the character of this regime but first question should be do we have a vital interest in who will syria my answer to that is no secondly if the incumbent government is overthrown who comes to power and syria you have the muslim brotherhood is trying to overthrow assad you have al-qaeda apparently which is moving in trying to overthrow assad so we've got to ask ourselves is the devil we know preferable to the devil we don't know but in the syrian situation i think the very fact that al qaeda has been involved apparently indeed for suicide attacks should tell us that we ought to be wary about overthrowing all. or participating in

a movement to overthrow assad before we know what's going to replace him as you said it's very hard to tell what's going to happen to syria if more radical forces seize power do you think the u.s. foreign policy might be helping terrorists indirectly i think the united states. american strategists would have to be fools not to see what al-qaeda is doing not to ask the question if it's good for al qaeda can it be good for us and not to look at saddam say he may be a ruthless dictator and what he's doing but what comes after him when he falls i think al qaeda does its best work or it works best when it finds a country that is fundamentally a failed state in yemen somalia afghanistan under the taliban and i think in those conditions that's where al qaida can plan and recruit far

better than it can when you have a a regime which is a hard line regime running the situation whether it's secular or whether syria torn apart by civil war and that that's it seems like a good environment for that i think i think that seriously. syria is really a potential disaster in that we could have there a proxy war between the sunni and shia all over that region there already have sunni coming in from iraq they already have al qaida in there apparently. you could have also a conflict ethnic conflict with the druze in there and the kurds in there as well as arabs in there i think this is why i'm against plunge putting weapons in and aiding the anti assad resistance because an all out war there could be a disaster which leaves a failed state in syria so what about this strategy that the u.s.

is now pursuing putting pressure on assad alone. and not addressing the armed groups the fighting armed groups among the opposition as well well i think that's basically the united states has taken sides in this war we've taken sides there just like we've taken sides in libya and what should or what should not the u.s. do here in syria. my policy would if i were and if i were in the white house would be by and large you know hands off syria in one of your articles you argue that the obama administration doesn't want to war with iran the pentagon u.s. intelligence community they're saying iran does not having a clear bomb and hasn't decided whether or not to build a nuclear bomb iran is obviously getting nothing from a war if nobody wants it then why the drums of war why are they so loud there are people that want to war. i mean i do not think no one wants a war you don't have wars unless someone wants it and quite clearly the israeli

government would like to see the united states smash iran's nuclear program which they think is creating the conditions where iran could with one leap forward get a bomb the israeli lobby in the united states would like to see you in where they support the israeli guy the neoconservatives do many republicans do there are many americans who genuinely believe that if iran they believe iran is moving toward a weapon and if it is they would favor military action to prevent it there are a number of people that want a war and if there are really vital threat coming from the i don't you see i don't know i don't look iran is not iraq i mean during the cold war with due respect soviet union had thousands of weapons they could have destroyed us in an afternoon and we could have done the same thing i was around during the cuban missile crisis

that was genuinely term fine but iran doesn't frighten me and i don't think it should frighten the american people they don't have a bomb they don't have they haven't made a decision to bill one didn't have the means to deliver one and the israelis have three hundred atomic bombs i mean who presents the existential threat to home when else they would rise i visited one of my doctors and we were talking about i hope we don't have a war in iran but now they're talking about an intervention in syria and he said thank god for the russians they've got some ships out there and the americans won't fool around with the russian ships so the russians are keeping us out and that's wonderful. that's one of my doctors but i think that's that's what the american public thinks at the state leaves us out of the out of a lot of this it has a lot i don't think the americans that i don't think any american wants to intervene in syria they don't or so. and anything about it iran though they got the ayatollah and they got a mounting

a job and he will always help out the hawks with some insane statement every couple of months he's going to destroy somebody or other and then the americans say we have to get him what is the danger of such rhetoric the danger of such rhetoric is that it leads to another war in the middle east which i think would be a disaster for my country and i think it would be a disaster for the world economy and other could be a disaster for the world you know i opposed desert storm back in one nine hundred ninety one i opposed even going in and clean and said i'm hussein out of kuwait because i said this will only be the first arab american war. and i was right i mean if you talk about islamic wars you had the war desert storm you had the war against afghanistan you've got the war in iraq and the war in libya now they're talking about syria and now they're talking about iran. what benefit has this been to the united states when you see where we were in one thousand nine hundred and

where we are today and where china was in one thousand nine hundred and where china is today then going into any of these countries haven't invaded anybody and they're moving upward as as brazil and as our india and what do we do one and all these places i don't think we can you can't replicate the middle west in the middle east thank you you thank . will do the. piece of pizza the looking glass at what will be the homes of the future where the walls might just be smarter than the residents every day trash protects you from the elements outside and the who system works to seize you money

to shine the spotlight on the leaders of building projects all around russia technology i'm doing here on r.g.p. we've got the central. we have a global war lords located in the notes we have a lot of illegal call groups of the clothes and sluices also our views in the right enough to my mind it was like when you had that marriage that wasn't forced marriage it's the smadi when i was fifteen yes you can liberate other women and you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun only effective social changes can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe i'm going to stun them not to have a cross post without the part of the patient it's chemical position and that it comes to actually stop people in the obama administration talking about how much

they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan. on the. move.

been years and tragedy. and be true. family. and a link. on the bottom of a coffee swamp. today's news on the review of the week on our take people in the water on syria are set to choose their new constitution potentially ending five decades of one party rule referendum comes amid on going violent with your position down to boycott the

ballots from. sixteen u.s. intelligence agencies agree there is no evidence tehran is building nuclear weapons but israel increases the pressure and continued threats of a military strike despite calls from washington and london to allow new sanctions time to cook. and the eurozone tightens its belt greece is saved from the brink of collapse as the e.u. approves the new paid out the cost of a massive new wave of cuts are students in spain rush out against their own lack of funding. and sports update now with. hello and welcome to the sports news and here all the headline. blue is the color manchester city big black three male to go five points clear with the top ball

chelsea clinched the first within six in the english premier league. poles apart nestor road runs go with a career title after a straight sets win over union is injured by. robert ross to russia's national rugby team suffer a disappointing twenty five nil defeat to romania in ne their second game since the rugby world cup. but we start with boxing and w.p.a. heavyweight champion alexander privette ken admits he may have underestimated opponent marco hawk after not only retaining his title on points the judges' decision went into that king's favor after twelve gruelling rounds in germany on saturday night the russian had his work cut out and was on the ropes in rounds four and seven but how the cruiserweight well champion failed to land the knockout punch the decision was greeted with a bruise by fans in stuttgart with about ten admitting afterwards perhaps he didn't

take the fight seriously enough it's the second successful defense of a title he won in the oldest last year. now moving to football in manchester city have stretched adelaide at the top of the english premier league to five points after a three nil home win against striking black burn goals from our ballot tally. when adding jacko sealed the victory elsewhere terry connors reign as walls manager began with a two two draw at new car so russia striker pavel pogrebnyak scored his second goal in two matches i spoke with one one military man to p.r. peter odemwingie not an abrasive west brom's for neil dropping of sunderland rock bottom wigan. neil neil with aston villa and chelsea went forth with the three no way over bolton it was the blues first victory in six games and with some way to easing the pressure on manager the last boss who has the backing of former chelsea boss africa brown. and i have sympathy for him and i was supportive enough to continue but. not many top clubs give.

to the coach after losing so many games if you see a lot of. it was in my days. later on sunday manchester united could narrow the gap at the top back to two points if they win it in form. will take on. a much anticipated north london. while also on sunday liverpool captain steven gerrard will go up against his cousin as they take on championship side cardiff in the carling cup final the reds aiming to win their first trophy for six years on their first visit to wembley since one nine hundred ninety six. now moving to tennis and i. moved to a career high of fifth in the world rankings after she won the dubai tennis championships on saturday with a straight set seven five six four when i have a germany as the pole came into the final as favorite despite the fact her opponent

had beaten caroline wozniacki in the previous round but it looked as if nerves had got the better of the. first game of the match eventually taking the first set seven five she then saw out the second six for the title of her career. now in one nine hundred seventy two the world of ice hockey witness what was the beginning of one of the greatest rivalries in the history of the game the summit series forty years later several generations of ice hockey stars gathered in moscow to celebrate the anniversary. explains. it used to be no list the war in the ice nine hundred seventy two of them was a hit it's more of the pseudo ration of the game itself why should i wait four years after the peak of soviet skull tooth paste the best comedian rules to do something serious the old time cream of the crop from both sides and then muscular and red square to share their evergreen stews and so youngsters and bring back some

good old memories it's probably the most fun for the first verse there was a song there were very good serials the fall of the fox but now you. got the soccer stuff. there's no i don't. give a but they. like it or you will get the bit back again. if . you like that i play and i think the fact that i was one of the greatest sylvia clears the whole time but it sounded a yoko show recalled a conversation with canadian asshole guess i don't feel as busy at all that took place after one of the games in nineteen seventy two for the writer of this procedure told me i couldn't much bigger money in the n.h.l. but i said look felt i have

a better offer for you come over to the soviet league you'll play for one of moscow's clubs and they'll give you a one bedroom apartment in the capital it's really worth it though i wonder why he didn't come here. to celebrate sion of the summit series and the first three continued settling with the real game that week of soviet russian stars including two heroes from those nine hundred seventy two games yet and yet the shift to can a barely less degraded all stars team with the great this busy coaching from the bench the stars of the past may have got older and lost their speed. but they sure their skills are still there is there is food for the microwave opening stand was going to do whatever we were one nil down after the first period that quite a serious conversation in the local worker who did what so we made some changes on the line and this gave it to me. i want to go as a result it was good school food russia at the start of the second period i but

that is there's one giving out that easily i. although this individual piece of genius by the desert i. had treated by the russian rocket red rapped on the final score of seventy five russian i feel for me when you see everybody still in shape even though you say you played in nine hundred seventy two but it's over they still have the skills to show that you're not so oppressive it was really the world just like four years back and seems that how soon days after nine hundred seventy two u. turn can't diminish the stars of this summit series. and look for it in their own party history. now in rugby russia have suffered a disappointing twenty five nil defeat to romania in their second match since the world cup dennis reports. rough weather and very strong opponents these were the

key challenges for the russian rugby team in sochi heavy rain and temperatures just above freezing point men double trouble in the game against romania. and even those sochi is not the coldest place in russia it was hard for the home team to keep up with the guests two weeks ago the bears struggled to beat portugal and eventually ran out winners by just the narrowest of margins thirty three thirty two the final score however the encounter with the romanians proved to be a much tougher encounter and unfortunately for head coach kingsley jones the team's problem area in the scrum was once again prove to. to be a major issue. here we need to improve an area we need to identify players more players more options not position the roumanians attacked from the first whistle and score at troy after only five minutes the russians just weren't able to come to terms with either their opponents or the conditions as the visitors would add another convert to try to take

a twelve nil lead to the halftime break to north and the looks on the young the skin the world the bare stand out players as they tried to get russia back into the match the performance did improve in the second half but unfortunately the whole side never looked like breaking down the resolute rumania the fans. are saying that it was difficult to have got a really strong grip and they have also gained in weight or also committed positional mistakes and it is hard to get this kind of whether there were tears or . not but despite the russian's positive intentions the roumanians would cross the bears try one for a third time to make the score twenty two to nil and the final penalty rub more salt into the wounds as romania would ease to a twenty five zero victory to hand russia their first defeat in the citizens european nations cup a lesson for the russians after the euphoria of new zealand but the team's coach kingsley jones is certain that five years of experience cannot be bought and his

team has to go through many challenges until it starts winning today we're not going to spear of the sea those players with ball in hand when the conditions are pretty bad nothing we can do but must do is be able to adapt to those positions and make this a fortress you know for russian rugby there was an equally poor turnout by the fans with the number of spectators struggling to reach double figures what is evident those that russia still have a lot of work to do ahead of their next match against local rivals ukraine on the town's march i think there has been let's keep our. eye. now finally the n.b.a. all-star weekend is in full swing in orlando with the big east versus west conference showdown later on sunday however rumors over the future of local start what how would continue as orlando center is linked with a move away from the magic l.a. lakers legend kobe bryant believes home fans will come out in support of the big man this weekend while howard himself has remained tight lipped over

a possible departure. y'all are doing your job i respect. you know like this you know i want to have for the want to so for us to be you know might see what we have all. this way in a small little. never lost in the world to see you all of it. i mean. it is was just to be a better. player sometimes reach a certain level first racial. or you'll feel like you need a spear move to the right direction so you're sure slow for sure. but i'm sure to get more walking. well that's all the sport for now more in a couple of hours time join me that. wealthy british style it's time. for.

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