bringing you the week's top stories here on r t six thirty pm in moscow these are your headlines decision day for the syrian people as they take to the polls to vote on a new constitution the move would bring an end to the ruling party's fifty year monopoly . thousands join our massive flash mob for fair elections here in russia activists make a sixteen kilometer long the ring around moscow city center of a week before the country heads to the polls to choose its next president. the un's atomic agency struggling to reach a conclusion on iran's nuclear weapons but u.s.

intelligence agencies agree there is no evidence to iran is trying to build a bomb that's not stopping israel from threatening a military strike on iran's nuclear sites. thousands of students and teachers again marching in anger at education cuts in spain is the euro crisis tightens its grip around the mediterranean but greece is breathing a sigh of relief after leaders finally approved an eleventh hour bail of people default. syrians vote on their future of the u.s. continues to pressure the assad regime u.s. veteran politician and former presidential advisor pat buchanan tells r t why he thinks washington should step back. i'm sitting down with patrick buchanan senior adviser to presidents which makes in 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 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 a long. 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 interest 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 problems. 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 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 all assad 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 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 rule 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 qaida has been involved apparently indeed for suicide attacks should tell us that we ought to be wary about overthrowing 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 that 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 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 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

a war they support he has really got 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 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 this kind is a lot i don't think the americans that i don't think any american wants to intervene in syria they don't understand. anything about it iran though they got the ayatollah and they got him out in the 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 i think it be a disaster for the world you know i opposed desert storm back in one thousand nine hundred one i opposed even going in and clean and saddam hussein out of kuwait because i said this will only be the first arab american war. i was right i mean if you talk about islam or quarters you had the war desert storm you had the war against afghanistan that got the war in iraq the war in libya now they're talking about syria 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 ninety nine and where china is today i am 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 thank you. will for the. sake of peace or the looking glass at what will be the homes of the future where the walls might just be smarter than the residence every day trash for takes you from the elements outside and the whole system works to see. to shine the spotlight on the latest building projects all around russia technology i'm doing here on r.g.p. . let's ensure. we have a local war lords looked at him in notes we have a lot of. groups of the causes and sluices all i do's in the

right enough got just by magic words like a man yet that marriage wasn't forced marriage and spoke with maddy when i was fifteen yes so you can liberate other women and you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun effective social changes. can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe i'm going to stun them not to the cross part of. the part of the patient it's chemical pollution and that a construction but it's the 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.

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and a leash. on the bottom of a coffee swamp. decision day for the syrian people as they take to the polls to vote on a new constitution a move that would bring an end to the ruling parties fifteen. thousand join hands in a massive flash mob with barrel actions of russia activists made a sixteen kilometer ring around moscow's city center a week before the country chooses its next president and. the u.n. atomic agency struggles to reach a conclusion on iraq's nuclear weapons but u.s. intelligence agencies agree there is no evidence to iran is building a bomb but that's not stopping israel from threatening a military attack on iran's nuclear sites. thousands of students and teachers again in march and anger at education cuts in spain as the euro crisis tightens its grip

around the mediterranean greece though breathing a sigh of relief after the e.u. leaders finally approved an eleventh hour bailout to stave off default. dimitri up next with all the latest sports news stay with us here on r.t. . hello there welcome to the. principal joining us coming up in the polls are. three. points clear at the top while chelsea first victory in six in the english premier league. a pod like match for glasgow poland a career title after a straight sets victory over you gold in dubai. and

super serious nine hundred seventy two one of the greatest rivalries in the history of this sport forty years. but let's start with boxing w.b. a heavyweight world. admits he may have underestimated opponent mark after returning his title with a narrow point victory in germany the judge's decision went into the favor after twelve grueling rounds in should good russian had to work very hard and was even on the ropes in round four and seven but the w.b. cruiserweight world champion failed to land a knockout punch the decision was greeted with. side with vatican admitting off towards didn't take the fight seriously enough it's the second successful defense of all the title the one in august last year. city have strengthened their late at the top of the english premier league two points after

three win against struggling black gold from mario balotelli. at the. victory while chelsea went fourth in the standings following a confident win over bolton. brain. manager began with it's all draw at newcastle russia striker title good luck sport has sat down gold in his medal match is full of one one mail at. brace in west brom's for nail thrashing of sunderland but as for the current league leaders belief is growing if they can win their first title in forty four years. there's a belief that we can go into football matches and we're going to. because that's what we've done all season for two thirds of the season and it's what we've done and that's what's going to where we are here to show consistency for the final third of the susan if you do so. but it's just important to

concentrate on our own game true. to your knowledge of can close the gap back to two points if they win at in-form norwich the latest call that is one nail in favor of the mine clearance midway through this second half. fifth place arsenal are hosting third place in their north london three in favor of the gunners with less than thirty minutes to go stoke post later on but also on sunday liverpool captain steven gerrard will go up against his cousin anthony gerrard as they take on the ship's side cardiff in the league cup final the reds are aiming to win their first trophy for six years. into a significant advance co will move career high in the world ranking steps after winning the ships with a straight sets germany as you go guys that came into the final as favorites

despite the fact apparent at bates and world number four colin was not in the semifinals but it looked like nerves got the back of the understated german letter broke in the first game of the match and. actually taking the open at seventy five i also played sac and so six or eight type of career was very very happy that you know of first of all that i can play my best tennis from the beginning of the year and you know under i was playing great tennis today so i'm just very happy that you know i could close this mess in two states. now in one nine hundred seventy two the world of ice hockey witnessed the beginning of what will become one of the greatest rivalries in the history of the sport of this summit serious was a number of matches between the soviet union and canada forty years later generations of ice hockey stars gathered in moscow to celebrate the anniversary his

robot flooded out. it used to be known as the war in the ice in one thousand nine hundred ninety two well today it's more of a celebration of the game itself four years after the peak of soviet. days the best comedian proves he was something serious the old time cream of the crop from both sides made in moscow one red square to share their evergreen skills with some youngsters and bring back some good old memories it's probably the most fun for the foot or so or the sun there were very good. for the flowers but now you've. got the socceroos of. life. but they. like it or you're. going to give it back. again.

if. you like that. the first time was one of the greatest soviet players of all time alexander jocose self recalled a conversation with canadian ice hockey i don't feel as busy that took place after one of the games in nineteen seventy two. esposito 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 verse three continued and settling with a real game that peak of soviet and russian stars including two heroes from those nine hundred seventy two games. of two can a barely less degraded all stars team with a great isp azita coaching from the bench the stars of the past may have got older

and lost their speed by. they sure their skills are still there is there is forward dave mcelwain opening stand was going to be doing what we were one nil down after the first period and had quite a serious conversation in the locker room so we made some changes in the line and this gave the team a huge boost i want to get as a result it was goals google for russia at the start of the second period i but the visitors weren't giving out that easily. although this individual piece of genius by. i and had treat by the russian rocket the rare wrapped up the final score of seven five to the russian. embassy of boromir you see everybody still in shape even those who played in one hundred seventy two yorkers have pretty do still have the skills to showcase that's

impressive it was really worth this by four years basking since the how soon days of nine hundred seventy two u. turn can't diminish the stars of this summit series. r.t. moscow. staying with. has claimed gold at the world championships and competition in lake placid for the reigning world champion dominates the competition for all four hates to enter the final attempt with more than a second and a half advantage over the chase and pack so aleck question could have prevented the course from winning the trophy but that didn't happen as they let them come play taste in faith to four point six seconds frank losing two seconds to the winner while south of new zealand completed the porter. went on to show off canada has won the last big ag competition of the twenty two. by claiming

his first career international victory on so they twenty. called the most number of points some spectacular displays of skill in both the times defending champion paid to appear in finland finished and second while another canadian math police it was . lifted to shot to fourth in the final world standing. in front of goal for american angela stanford has won the l.p.g. singapore in style dramatic play against three other opponents playing the title of korea. and choice those chinese play. to complete against the american in the playoffs stanford became the elder one to avoid serious mistakes in that final round and off the shin short and the third x. for how subtle for a bogey the american golf only needed to execute. properly at the same how the job

was done at the end of the day when it admitted everyone equal chances to win. but i felt for because you know we've all been in that position and you know i i didn't think i would be there either i say park quite a bit today and i was kind of all over the map so you know i when we started i said you know i'm happy to be here too so then just played from there. ok that's all for me for the moment more into. the weather is next stay with us. wealthy british style.

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