new constitution to potentially end five decades of one party rule referendum comes amid ongoing violence with the opposition bowing to boycott the ballot. sixteen u.s. intelligence agencies agree there is no evidence terror around is building nuclear weapons but israel increases the pressure with continued threats of a military strike despite calls from washington and london to allow new sanctions more time to work. on the eurozone tightens its belt greece is saved from the brink of collapse as he would prove you paid out the cost of a massive new wave of cuts prostitutes in spain rush out against their own lack of funding. the syrians vote on their future america continues the pressure on the assad regime next a former us presidential advisor and veteran of american politics pat buchanan 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 him 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 whisper garst to foreign policy are saying one of the ways to prevent that suicide from happening is to dismantle the empire first thought 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 crusade 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. and there are no doubt about it that throughout history tyrants have arisen 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 a four suicide bombings which killed scores of syrian officials and soldiers seen damascus and aleppo aleppo 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 the first question should be do you have a vital interest in who you are. as you know 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 online not to ask the question if it's good for al qaeda can it be good for us and not to look at saad and 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 i think 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 and 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 and syria so what about this strategy that the u.s. is now pursuing putting pressure on assad alone. and not addressing the

armed groups to 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 what should or what should not the u.s. do here and syria. my policy would be 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 and the pentagon u.s. intelligence community they're saying iran does not have a nuclear 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 who 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 anyone with a support is really 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 you 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 whom the last they were it was 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 that the state leaves us out of the out 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 got the war in iraq the war in libya now they're talking about syria now they're talking about iran. of 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

and i'm going into any of these countries haven't invaded anybody and they're moving upward 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 . happiness and tragedy. roshan. and beatrice. family. and does

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maddy when i was fifteen years old you can liberate other women and you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun salute effective social changes can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe i'm going to stun him not to across. the part of the patient it's a 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. today's news on the review of the week on our t.v. people in the war torn syria choosing their new constitution to potentially end five decades of one party rule referendum comes amid ongoing violence that the opposition going 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 of continued threats of military strikes despite the call. from washington and london to allow new sanctions return to work . and the eurozone tightens its belt greece is safe from the brink of collapse he would prove you paid out cost of a massive new wave of cuts are students in spain lash out against their own lack of funding. but a sports update now with paul. thank you very much kerry welcome to the sports use here are the headlines. blue is the color of manchester city black but three male to go five points clear at the top while chelsea clinched their first win six in the english premier league. poles

apart poland's agnès forward runs go into a career title after a straight sets win over junia good jazz enjoyed by. mold russia's national rugby team suffer a disappointing twenty five nil defeat to romania in the second game since the rugby world cup. but we start with boxing and w.b. a heavyweight world champion alexander privette can admits he may have underestimated opponent marco hogg after narrowly retaining his title on points the judges' decision when kins favor after twelve gruelling rounds in germany the russian had his work cut out and was on the ropes in round four and seven but hark the w.b. cruiserweight world champion failed to land the knockout punch the decision was greeted with blues by fans in stuttgart with a vet can admitting afterwards perhaps he didn't take the fight seriously enough it's the second successful defense of the title he won it all just last year. now

to footballer manchester city have stretched their lead at the top of the english premier league to five points after a three know how to win against struggling black goals from mario balotelli sergio aguero and adding jacko sealed the victory elsewhere terry connors rate as well as manager began with a two two draw at newcastle. pavel pogrebnyak scored his second goal in two matches as for the one one military c.p.r. peter odemwingie netted a brace in west brom's for no drubbing of sunderland boss and we're going to nil nil with aston villa and. he went forth with a three hole win over bolton it was the blues first victory in six games and won some way to easing the pressure on manager andre pro-us who has the backing of former chelsea boss have ground. and i have sympathy for him and i was supportive enough to continue but. not many top clubs give money.

to the coach after the losing so many games if you see your money go a lot of. them i wish it was in my days. well later on sunday manchester united could narrow the gap at the top back to two points if they win it in for both stoke close ones eight and fifth place arsenal take on place in a much anticipated north london. also on sunday liverpool captain steven gerrard will go up against his cousin and to me as they take on championship side cardiff in the league cup final the reds aiming to win their first trophy for six years on their first visit to wembley since nine hundred ninety six. now in tennis i will move to a career high a fifth in the world rankings after she won the dubai tennis championships on saturday with a straight set seven five six four win over germany julia goes yes the pole came into the finals favorite despite the fact her opponent beaten world number four

caroline wozniacki in the previous round but it looked as if nerves had got the better of the unseeded german when referenced there broke in the first game of the match eventually taking the first set seven five she then saw out the second six four with a title for her. now and nine hundred seventy two the world of ice hockey witnessed 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 have gathered in moscow to celebrate the anniversary we're about danny and explains. it used to be no listen you're in the. rice in one thousand nine hundred seventy two well today it's more of the celebration of the game itself four years after the peak of soviet. space the best comedian draws you something serious the old time cream of the crop from both sides known muscular and red square to share their evergreen skills the so youngsters and bring back some good old memories it's

probably the most fun for the first verse there was a song you were very good. ball park but now you are. not a soccer star. there's no i don't. give a but they. like it or you will get it if it like again. if . you like that. play. the best that was one of the greatest soviet blares of whole time and it sound very young recalled a conversation with canadian asshole guess i don't feel as busy 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 i wonder why you didn't come here. to celebrate sion of the summit series and the first three continued settling with the real game that peak of soviet russian stars including two heroes from those nine hundred seventy two games and yet the shift to can a barely less degraded all stars team with the greatest 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. aboard the mcelwain opening stand for the new yorker. we were one nil down after the first period that quite a serious conversation on the local work your watch so we made some changes in the line and this gave the two michigan bush to come up with the good go as a result it was god's goodwill for russia at the start of the second period i but the visit there is 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 russians i can see a border near me where you see everybody still in shape even though you say you played in one hundred seventy two new york a shift but it's over they still have the skills to showcase here that's impressive it was really the world display for years best and seems that how soon this nine hundred seventy two u. turn can diminish the stars of the summit series. and look for it in their own party mr. now to rugby where russia have suffered a disappointing twenty five nil defeat to romania in their second match in the world cup then 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 though 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 be portugal and eventually ran out winners by just the narrowest of margins of 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 to prove to be a major issue we know where we need to improve and here we need to identify players more players more options not position the roumanians attacked from the first whistle and score a try after only five minutes the russians just weren't able to come to terms with either of their opponents or the conditions as the visitors would add another convert to try to take a twelve nil lead into the halftime break undated 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 home side never looked like breaking down the resolute rumania the fans. what course that was difficult they've got a really strong grip and they have also gained weight or were also committed positional mistakes and it's hard to get the ball in the sky know whether there were tears or. not but despite the russian's positive intentions the romanians 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. thing we can do with 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 there has been let's keep our team and. 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 why 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 has remained tight lipped over a possible departure. do we expect.

you know what i have for the or the so for us you know what i see what we have go. this way it is for. never boston looking to see. me. it is wise to be a better. player some time reach a certain level first racial. we all feel like the needles being moved to the right direction so i am sure slow for sure. but you should get more walking. while that's all the sports news for now will have more in a few hours time join us then. wealthy british science. sometimes.

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